Parasites! Always cook your meat thoroughly! That was my late grandfather's advice. My late grandpa was a very well read man. He did not receive tertiary education due to lack of opportunity.
In his library (since dismantled after his demise) he had books of various subjects - science, medicine, history, philosophy, biography, theology, fiction, crime & investigation and the occult. I even found The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno among his collection (which I tried to read but found hard to digest due to the old English)
Grandpa worked as a hospital dresser and he had quite an extensive knowledge on medical matters. One thing he was very fastidious about was cleanliness and hygiene.
He used to steam food bought from outside before consuming it. Yup, he steamed the rojak ayam, nasi dagang, boiled the Indian curries and even steamed budu to kill bacteria much to grandma's annoyance hah..hah...
But today we are talking about his granddaughter. Eating steak. Rare. Not medium rare. I don't know if grandpa would have flipped. I mean, he once told me about steak tartare, a dish of raw minced beef mixed with raw egg.
This is Angus Grain Fed Ribeye. I dunno, I just thought why not do it rare, and see what happens. Well, I gotta tell ya, it was juicy, moist, tender and had an almost melt-in-your-mouth kinda feel.
Still I felt a little bit geli but I'm glad I had it this way. Just to experience what the connoisseurs say is the best way to enjoy a piece of good steak.
Lots of vegetables as usual. But I ate the steak not in the usual way.
Eat with rice, can ah?
Steak, rice and an assortment of vegetables. Lots of veggies to balance out the red meat.
Then the next time, I decided that I am sticking to medium rare.
I prefer like that lah. Not so bloody.
Still very good, tender and juicy but not melt-in-your-mouth kind of texture like the one cooked rare.
But it is OK, this is my preferred level of doneness and I shall stick to this.
Eh, got cookies! heh..heh...
Then the next time, I decided that I am sticking to medium rare.
I prefer like that lah. Not so bloody.
Still very good, tender and juicy but not melt-in-your-mouth kind of texture like the one cooked rare.
But it is OK, this is my preferred level of doneness and I shall stick to this.
Eh, got cookies! heh..heh...
Even after that big helping of food, I can still eat some more. I don't have anymore Oreos. So I baked my own cookies from the frozen cookie dough I prepared during the early part of the MCO.
Just take out from the freezer to defrost, form into balls (add more choc chips heh..heh...), flatten and bake. 160C for 25 minutes.
Came out leng leng crunchy crunchy. So good!
Oh, in case you were wondering, I had no stomach issues after consuming the rare steak. But I don't know about the parasites.
the steak salad and choc chip cookies all look ahhhhh-mazing! :D i guess our older generations had a good point about hygiene, since they had to deal with a lot more diseases in those days than we do (with the exception of this year!). your story of your grandfather reminded me of my father - he was worried about germs in my birthday cake when i was seven years old, so he put the cake in the microwave for two minutes. the cake melted and we couldn't eat it anymore. funny now but sad then, heheh :D
ReplyDeleteI see that your dad has these hygiene issues as well. Come to think of it, grandpa didn't sterilize my birthday cakes hah..hah...
DeleteYes, I grew up in the countryside and that was repeated advice there too.
ReplyDeleteThis advice continue to ring true.
Deleteboth are fabulously good!!! I like rare steak with oozing blood...hahaha! (I sound like vampire). Choc chips cookies too!!! did ah girl have some of the steak and cookies?
ReplyDeleteAiyo..memang like vampire LOL! No she did not have a share :D
DeleteDicing with danger?...probably. I wouldn't dare cook steaks to rare at home (not that I did any cooking of steaks to begin with) coz I can't trust my process of defrosting just in case it was not done properly and bacteria exists...hee..hee!). Anyway, I prefer my steaks medium rare (like you) as that would allow a better sear on the outside. The fast cooking for rare just won't allow for a charred crust. Most of the time when we eat steaks at restaurants, they're sometimes on the rarer side of medium rare, so I've had the opportunity to taste meat done that way and I do agree that it's the most tender at rare. P/S: So I guessed right on the use of your basket of veggies I peeped into the other day. ^_~ Of course can eat with rice ah (just think of it as black pepper beef..lol), but seems a bit sayang-lah to use quality/expensive meat for food prep with rice (I'm assuming it's food prep due to the containers). Expensive meat I'd want to eat immediately and food prep one I'd buy cheap beef for stir-fry....kekeke! ;D
ReplyDeleteI defrost my steak the night before in the fridge and let it stand for 1 hour before cooking. So far, touch wood, no food poisoning! I bought some more steaks since the ones from this supplier is good.
DeleteThat is rare. I never try that yet. Not that daring. Haha. Cookies! Give me thay, please.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Luckily for me, no lau sai hah..hah...
DeleteI have eaten oozing before. Too geli though tender. How many steaks did you cook? one steak you cooked rare then other steaks cooked medium rare to go into your container/s?
ReplyDeleteI cooked two, the rare one was cooked many days earlier.
DeleteYou didn't eat the rare steak with rice, right?
ReplyDeleteOh, you did. I had to read again. So anymore steaks left to cook?
DeleteYour cookies are yummy! Give me cookies anytime!
ReplyDeletehah..hah..
DeleteYour late grand father was so careful to steam all tapao'ed food before eating them. Good because it is better to be careful than to risk it.
ReplyDeleteBut the food does not taste good after the steaming.
DeleteEspecially when our beef is frozen imported beef, not fresh beef, just slaughtered. For this same reason, I would not eat sashimi either. In my younger days, we used to catch those little shrimps from the stream beside the house, dip in sambal, still alive and jumping, and eat. So very sweet, so very nice! I certainly would not eat that that way now - our polluted rivers and streams!
ReplyDeleteVery true that. I took a big risk.
DeleteGive me those cookies and i want to eat them dipped in milk or coffee, yums!
ReplyDeleteYour grandfather is so knowledgeable and well read.
Strangely, I never tried eating cookies dipped in anything. LOL!
DeleteIt really depends of the quality of the steak, rare is too bloody for me too but when the meat is good (just like what I had at Nizza), I can :P
ReplyDeleteI would like to know why the chocolate chips on your cookies didn't melt after baking? I used to sprinkle thme on my muffin, but all melted after being baked ~>_<~
It depends on what type of chocolate chips you use. I noticed that Milk Chocolate Chips (Hershey's) will melt whereas the Semi-Sweet won't. It also differs among brands. Generally speaking, chocolate chips won't melt so easily as they are made that way.
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