Been wanting to have steak for 2 weeks now, so finally got round to getting it. There was scotch fillet on sale at the local supermarket. Got that and some rocket leaves to make a salad, which I seasoned with salt, honey and white wine vinegar. Grated some pecorino cheese on top and added a few slices of pear. Heh, the salad recipe was something I picked up eating dinner else where.

Steak is simple to cook, but looks best when you cook it with a griddle, as you get the scorch marks on both sides of the meat and it imparts a slightly smoky taste to your meat. The basics for making steak is to just marinate it with olive oil on both sides, before putting the salt and pepper on. The layer of oil is to stop the salt from drying the meat out before you cook it (or so I believe). You just need to let it marinate for a few minutes (which I did to prep the salad) before putting it into a hot pan to cook. You only need to flip the meat once (four times on a griddle, to get the grid like marks) to cook it through. You know it’s done through experience, when you press against the meat and you know how firm you want it to be (the firmer it is, the more cooked the meat is).

Take the steak off the pan and let it rest on a plate for a few minutes to let the juices settle in the meat. Otherwise if you were to cut it now, all the juices will come out and towards the end of it, you will get a dry piece of steak.

So the picture was my dinner. Downed with a nice bottle of chilled beer. Heh.

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Now about the mishap. Not needing to inject too much drama to it, I just decided to go out for lunch today, and while driving back to work, got hit from the back. The driver behind wasn’t paying attention as we had just started moving from a traffic light. The impact didn’t feel that strong but my rear bumper has semi caved in, exposing the exhaust pipe at the bottom.

Was surprisingly calm at the time, and was shaking less than I normally would under a stressful situation such as this. Anyway, need to make a police report in the morning (tried doing it this evening but something was happening at the station and I couldn’t wait for the police to resolve it) and call up the insurance company again.

It’s 3 years since I got my car, and other than a self inflicted pillar scrape, I haven’t done anything serious to it. Oh well, fortunately no one got hurt, now it’s just all the paperwork to get everything back the way it was. Heh, there’s going to be a few headaches here and there, hopefully things will resolve themselves.