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National Filet Mignon Day 2025

To top off this week’s Hump 🐪 Day, we find ourselves at National Filet Mignon Day. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve had one of these little 🥩 beauties, so it may be time to correct that…

Little Luxuries

Choices are funny things… But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. ~Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care (2009)

Well, who doesn’t like a good steak. Am I right?

The old mantra of “Live simply that others may simply live.” is somewhat comforting in lean times.

It’s easier to endure austerity when you have reason to feel that someone is benefitting from your minimalism.

What I prefer is “everything in moderation”.

You can’t eat steak all the time. It would become boring.

Rotating through nutritional and taste profiles is much better all around.

That said, now that we’re on the topic, I haven’t had one in a while and you really can’t go wrong with a tasty little bit of heaven.

It even meets the Food Pyramid recommendations. They say (it’s always they) that your cut of meat should be about the size of a deck of playing cards.

On an average day, that counts as a snack for me.

That being said, we’re enjoying some us time lately.

With the kids mostly moved out, Kelly and I can be a bit more mindful of how and what we eat.

There was a time when we were both vegetarians, so I don’t even necessarily need to have meat on any given day.

As long as it is tasty and nutritious, we’re good to go.

French Steak? French Chef!

How to Make the Perfect Filet Mignon | Chef Jean-Pierre

Chef Jean-Pierre makes it look so quick and easy.

I suppose it is if that’s what you did your entire life.

Kelly, however…

I love her dearly, but what this woman does to a steak borders on the absolutely criminal.

I haven’t the patience or the time to do any better.

If steak is desired, best to go get it at a restaurant.

That’s what they have them for, after all.

Nobody is good at everything, and I quite admire my wife for the many things that she is good at.

With the kids mostly moved out, we’ll have more time to reconnect in ways that take us back to the honeymoon period.

That’s as sumptuous as any well-prepared filet mignon.

Driving You Crazy

When you’re a failure in Hollywood—that’s like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with the smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. ~Marilyn Monroe

Ah, yes, the tantalizing sense of being close enough to what you desire to nearly feel as if you have it, yet far enough away to be all too aware that you haven’t.

Wallowing in failure is a terrible state to be in.

Some people make a lifestyle out of it.

Fortunately, I choose not to be one of them.

We can all have a pity party from time to time.

It’s reasonably cathartic as long as you manage not to burn any bridges.

Even when you’re completely defeated and beaten to a proverbial pulp, you can still do little things to claw your way back on track.

Meaningful little steps to get you out of the doldrums.

If you’re a creator, do what you do.

Write something. Paint something. Sculpt a diorama out of your mashed potatoes.

Creatives lift their souls when they do what they were put here to do.

Birds don’t need a reason to sing. Neither should you.

Sing just because you’re alive, but not if you’ve got a mouthful of filet mignon.

That’s actually too much happiness. Have some manners and finish what you’re eating. Then sing.

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That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for another ride on the meat 🌭 wagon…