Monica Kochelee

My son wants to try a recipe for Kofta, which calls for ground beef that has been ground extra fine.  The recipe specifically says that detail “makes or breaks” the recipe.  That means we have to go to a grocery store that has a butcher and ask him to put the ground beef through the grinder an extra time or two.

So my son went to Safeway to buy the ground beef, and asked the butcher to grind the meat extra fine and the butcher told him that the ground beef in the display case was all they had, he would not grind it another time for him.  So, my son brought home just regular ground beef.  I already had enough regular ground beef to make the recipe, it just wasn’t ground fine enough.  And, he paid twice as much for the Safeway ground beef as what I paid at Wal-Mart for the same 93% lean beef.

So, I think I’m going to shoot off an angry email to Safeway about the butcher refusing to provide the personal service that butchers are SUPPOSED to provide!