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Whether you prize it or think it's completely overhyped, filet mignon makes you picture an expensive, candlelit dinner at a high-end restaurant (cliché points if it's Valentine's Day).

And both actually give you two steaks in one: a New York strip on one side of the bone and a filet mignon on the other. The porterhouse is cut from the rear end of the short loin, so it has a ...