Free Marrow Butter. Die.

Yesterday was The Perfect Day. It started with bagels in the park and a nap in the sunshine. Then we drank gin & tonics on the front, sunny bench at Beco while Napoleon lounged beneath us in the shade. Then we got ice cream cones before picking up some meats and cheeses from the wonderful people at Baba and fresh veggies at To the World Farm.

Then we got a 2.5 pound sirloin steak from The Meat Hook where the incredible Tom Mylan threw in a free knob of marrow butter. Marrow Butter. I didn't know the perfect day could get more perfect.

Don't you want to die and go to heaven having seen this picture?

Josiah and I had Sarah over for grilled steaks below the stars on the still-65-degree roof. To be fair, none of this meal came from leftover ingredients except for the ginger and scallions that went into the salad dressing, but do we care? No. Not when you are eating MARROW BUTTER all over a GIANT SIRLOIN STEAK.

We also used my insanely special, new 'Lil Beni' mandolin to ultra-thinly slice parsnips, onions and potato into a gorgeous fried dish. For a little small bit of "healthiness" we had a giant salad of spicy mixed greens with soy-sauce fried oyster and shitake mushrooms and ginger-scallion vinaigrette. Pure delight. See below. 1000 bonus point to Josie for the absolutely perfect medium-rare temperature.

Witness Sarah licking the knife.