Steak Night

I am an animal lover. I really am. I usually prefer them grilled over a bed of charcoal or pan seared with a good measure of spices and salt thrown in. Maybe a side of vegetables to make it look healthy.

So yesterday was steak night. Steak night usually happens the night after an especially hard day at work. On such a night, I simply need some comfort food that would satisfy not only my appetite but my soul as well.

What better to soothe the soul than a thick slab of nicely marbled beef marinated in Worcestershire sauce and later pan fried with a massive dose of butter, garlic and honey barbecue sauce slathered all over it.


For the side salad, I had some sun dried tomatoes, Provencal olives, sliced onions and garlic with a healthy heap of greens tossed in Italian dressing. Its a simple and light salad, one easy to swallow though the olives may be an acquired taste for some. And while some people prefer a glass of Pinot Noir with their steak, I prefer a nice cold glass of San Pellegrino to wash it all down.

Such decadence and done all too simply. Give steak night a try. You may end up wanting to do it every week!

My Big Fat Cheeseburger

It has always been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Watching the Asian Food Channel, I often see celebrities from Jamie Oliver to Anna Olsen promoting healthy breakfasts and gushing like over-enthusiastic property agents over how fantastically healthy and nutritious their muesli based breakfasts or wholemeal pancakes are. Well, screw all that. I’m a man and I need a massive dose of man-food early on in the morning. It’s meat for me in the morning. No sissy grains and cereals or diarrhea inducing milk products. Give me beef, chicken or mutton. Rabbits? Yeah, that’ll do too.

One of my favourite homemade breakfast is a cheeseburger. I’m not talking about those sissy little things that Mcdonalds serve. I’m talking about 200g of fat, juicy homemade beef patty doused in olives, mustard and jalapenos with a thick slice of melting mozzarella tucked between two lightly toasted buns.

Seriously people, don’t bother buying those rip off burger patties at the supermarkets. Those thin sawdust-tasting patties are pathetic. It’s much more worth it making your own patties. Make a stack of em, freeze em and you’ll have a ready supply of thick fat burgers at your disposal.

Ingredients

Patty:

300g fresh minced beef

4 slices of toasted bread, crumbled

1 red onion – diced

2 cloves garlic - diced

1 egg

¼ cup olive oil

Salt

Black pepper

1 tbsp cornflour

50g butter

2 tbsp Worchester sauce (optional)

4 hamburger buns

Mozzarella cheese

Olives

Mustard

Lettuce

Mix all the patty ingredients together in a big bowl and form a large ball.

Refrigerate for two hours

Separate the ingredients into 4 thick patties

You can either fry the patty in a hot pan or grill it in the oven.

It’s as simple as that. I don’t have to tell you how to put the patty into the bread, do I?