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What's the most you've spent to make dinner?

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Lots of times a truly outstanding meal can be created at modest cost, but sometimes, quality ingredients such as steak, lobster, caviar, or a really good wine can cost. What's the most you've ever spent to cook a meal?
 
We have an expensive home cooked meal about once a year. We spend several hundred on Kobe steaks and then spend weeks thinking about how good they were. I've also got a thing for imported German icewine, and that's pretty pricey at times too.
 
I'm not really sure in $$ whats the most expensive......but I added up today how many back breaking hours it took me to prepare the bed, cut the trench, tend the plants, mound the plants, and then dig out the potatoes we had for dinner tonight, then add in what it cost me for the seed potatoes, the potato food, the water and the hours spent watering the plants and the pain relievers for my back every time I had to work that bed.......and I figure each of those potatoes cost me between $10 to $15 a tater............

I can get 50lbs of potatoes that look just as good for $10 at the corner swap meet. Don't think I'll do homegrown potatoes again.
 
Money wise.. I dunno, 40$??? but TIME wise..

UGH..

I learned the hard way not to make Manicotti .. although it was delicious.. It can kiss my big brown :censored:.

I swear it took 2 hours just to stuff those dang things. Stupid thing tear so easily.

:angry::angry::angry:
 
If I have the money for a fancy meal, we usually go out and let someone else do the cooking. However, we have been greatly disapointed the last few times we went out.

I penny pinch at the super market and try to get as many meals as possible on a budget (we eat lots of chicken and pasta). I think the last fancy meal Jess cooked (I love a man that cooks!) I splurged on chateaubriand steak, got garlic and bacon for mashed potatoes, asparagus and some port wine, was probably around $50 for one meal (plus yummy leftovers).

MagickalMorphs said:
We spend several hundred on Kobe steaks ... I've also got a thing for imported German icewine.
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So when can I come over for dinner at your place? ;)

Never heard of IceWine, I'll have to look into that.
 
I'm a cheap bastard, so for me an expensive meal is something we rarely do (especially with 4 midgets). With that said other then Thanksgiving (definitely the most expensive outright meal seeing how it usually is made to feed 12+ people, with the expected spread.) the most expensive meal usually made here is crab legs, steak, garlic mashed taters and asparagus, but even that isnt terribly pricy.
 
Whenever somebody in the family has a birthday it's a tradition that I always bake a huuuge mean dish of lasagna. To put the whole dish together I spend at least 80 USD, I only use premo ingredients for my lasagna dish. I use extra extra ricotta cheese between the layers, and extra meat. Good stuff.
 
For a nice meal...beef tenderloin (at $19 lb.), nice rice dish or potato dish ($3-5), Aspargus ($3 lb.), a nice pie ($7-10), a really good beer cause I don't drink wine--or anything much anymore--($15).

Probably $50 for two people, but it's worth it for homemade as it would cost more than twice that at a restaurant and no leftovers.
 
My most exspensive meal cost me about $1000, 2 days in jail, and 6 months of probation. I bought a bad lobster gauge on my way to the keys for mini season and was busted. The shorts were let go and the FWC officers didn't care about the bad gauge. I was told"take it up with Kmart." No wonder why they are out of business.
 
charleshanklin said:
My most exspensive meal cost me about $1000, 2 days in jail, and 6 months of probation. I bought a bad lobster gauge on my way to the keys for mini season and was busted. The shorts were let go and the FWC officers didn't care about the bad gauge. I was told"take it up with Kmart." No wonder why they are out of business.
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OUCH! That's not only expensive enough to hurt the wallet, but paying for probation is a continual hurt...
 
Rubes steak house for a pay your parents back for all the wonderfull things kinda dinner,pre bar,after bar 125.00 and thats a lot for a old broken down Eastsider like me.
the Tinman
 
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