Happy Call Steak

I am not on a diet. I am not on a diet. I am not on a diet.
Really, lah. I am not on a diet. I just had one and a half packets of delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice and three dollars worth of soy sauce laced gizzards last night so I am not lying.

I don't like cake so I don't need to have my cake and eat it too.
I am making lifestyle changes (will talk about that in the next post, coming up shortly) and that inlcudes eating what I want but with exercise as the trade off.

So, here's my sizzling steak. By golly, I think I've nailed it!
I fried them on my trusty old Happy call pan (the red one that you can flip open and flip to the other side) but without closing the cover. I'm too cheapskate to buy another Happy Call frying pan so I figured my current Happy Call pan has just as good a material to fry steaks as their more expensive frying pans.

 

My take on steak, medium rare!

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Close up



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Medium Rare

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Aiyah, my Ah Lau is a real Ah Pek. I had already served him his steak, sizzling on the hotplate and I had returned to the stove to 'sizzle' mine when I heard him yelling, "Darl! Darl! Why so red? Got blood, ah?" (he does NOT like any trace of blood even on his white chicken rice pieces).

 

I calmly yelled back (it is an art I have mastered; to yell calmly) that it was MEDIUM RARE, that's why GOT BLOOD!!! It's HOW Jamie and Gordon taught me on Youtube, mah!!!

 

I convinced him to try the bloody steak and he said it was so delicious! But he was swapping his bloody pieces for my pieces which were less bloody. Alamak. In the end, I put his hotplate directly on the stove and it took only about another minute before all his pieces turned well, MEDIUM. He was a happy man.

 

I had been so engrossed with my steak that I had not thought of any accompanying side dishes. As such, I quickly fried some sliced canned button mushrooms and red onions. Required no seasoning as the onions made the side dish naturally sweet. I thought I would require gravy but really, no gravy is required. The steak is yummy by itself. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you, Gordon. Thank you, Youtube.

 

Pity none of our kids were home that night to taste the steak. I'm going to repeat this on a weekend when I catch both of them at home. I think they'll like it. Sweet steak success!

 

(Did you note, there were no carbs on our hotplates? The steaks were more than filling enough. That's my compromise and one of the examples of what I mean by lifestyle changes. Slowly but surely.)