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Chris and I made steak the other night :) For the first time instead of being just fairly average, it was really good! Our first attempt, it was way overcooked. We cooked it until it looked kind of medium/medium-well but then by the time we were done, it was all brown inside and kind of tough to eat.
Second time, well, we found out our broiler doesn't exactly work. We cooked it almost twice as long as the recipe said to and it was still rare. More rare than I like (I usually like medium-rare, and this was... very rare) but it wasn't bad. We let it cool off a bit too long though and it was kind of cold. Which kind of reminds me, we need to talk to our landlord about the stove.
This time... we cut up strips of steak into little cubes and stuck them in a frying pan with crushed cloves of garlic and some butter, and at the end poured in some soy sauce too. OMG it was so good. We cooked them pretty perfectly (medium rare) and the garlic and butter just made it taste amazing :) It was SLIGHTLY too salty (too much soy sauce) but it was still super delicious. We'll lay off a bit on the soy sauce next time.
Tonight we have chicken stir fry on the menu. We haven't had stir fry in a while so I'm looking forward to it :) We also have some leftover steak from the other day, so maybe we'll have chicken + steak stir fry. Sounds super yummy to me! I think we kind of forgot to get broccoli, but we have red peppers (which are so yummy) and rice and whatnot so :) Maybe I can get Chris to boil the rice when he gets home after he meets me for lunch, so we can stick it in the fridge for a few hours before we cook it. (Cold rice works waaay better in stir fry than hot rice fresh out of the pot)
When I say "we" cook, I usually mean that Chris does most of the actual cooking. I am really not a big fan of the open flame that our gas stove has - I've had electric all my life! But I help him do a lot of preparation - chopping up veggies, getting stuff for him that he needs while cooking (ie soy sauce) and whatnot.
Second time, well, we found out our broiler doesn't exactly work. We cooked it almost twice as long as the recipe said to and it was still rare. More rare than I like (I usually like medium-rare, and this was... very rare) but it wasn't bad. We let it cool off a bit too long though and it was kind of cold. Which kind of reminds me, we need to talk to our landlord about the stove.
This time... we cut up strips of steak into little cubes and stuck them in a frying pan with crushed cloves of garlic and some butter, and at the end poured in some soy sauce too. OMG it was so good. We cooked them pretty perfectly (medium rare) and the garlic and butter just made it taste amazing :) It was SLIGHTLY too salty (too much soy sauce) but it was still super delicious. We'll lay off a bit on the soy sauce next time.
Tonight we have chicken stir fry on the menu. We haven't had stir fry in a while so I'm looking forward to it :) We also have some leftover steak from the other day, so maybe we'll have chicken + steak stir fry. Sounds super yummy to me! I think we kind of forgot to get broccoli, but we have red peppers (which are so yummy) and rice and whatnot so :) Maybe I can get Chris to boil the rice when he gets home after he meets me for lunch, so we can stick it in the fridge for a few hours before we cook it. (Cold rice works waaay better in stir fry than hot rice fresh out of the pot)
When I say "we" cook, I usually mean that Chris does most of the actual cooking. I am really not a big fan of the open flame that our gas stove has - I've had electric all my life! But I help him do a lot of preparation - chopping up veggies, getting stuff for him that he needs while cooking (ie soy sauce) and whatnot.
