Cooking: Steak Sandwich

For fathers day I didn't make breakfast for dad because I was too lazy to get out of bed. Made steak sandwiches for lunch instead.

Ingredients: Sliced tomato, sliced onion, avocado, gerkins/pickles, cheese, whatever else you want in your sandwich, some sort of steak, sauce of your liking (I used HP sauce which no one seems to know about), some sort of bread (I used a focaccia like bread).

Method: Cook the onion with some sugar and salt until soft and caramalised. Meanwhile slice the tomato, gerkins. Set onion mix aside. Flatten steaks until they are about 1/4-1/3 bigger than your bread (as they will shrink when you cook them). Heat a grill pan till smoking hot and cook steaks for about 30 seconds a side. Slice avocado whilst steaks are cooking (have to bea ninja to do this). Place a slice of cheese ontop of the stead and rest the steaks. Place bread onto the pan. Lightly toast (keep you eyes on them because they burn quickly). Spread the sauce onto the bread. Top with everything and eat =]

Pretty simple and quick. Tastes awesome!

Cooking Brekky: Toasted Cheese and Corn Sandwiches

Usual Saturday morning. Wake up, turn on laptop, read food blogs/sites in bed. Love Saturday mornings =) I was on The Kitchn where I came across, Toasted Cheese and Onion Sandwiches and instantly wanted one. However I realised that we don't have any onions left thanks to seafood pasta last night. Therefore decided to substitute onion with corn and chives (from the garden).

Ingredients:   (serves 1)

• 1-2tbsp of frozen corn
• 1-2tbsp of grated cheese
• 2 strips? of chives ripped into 1cm lengths (gives the onion flavour but just a hint, not a hit)
• black pepper (no need for salt as cheese is normally pretty salty)
• lemon/lime juice (optional) (cuts through the richness of the cheese, especially if you're using strong cheese like I did)
• 2 slices of bread

1. Boil some water to make coffee/tea and boil an extra 50ml for corn.

2. Put corn into a bowl and pour in enough boiling water to cover (don't want to eat frozen corn in your sandwich, gotta melt the ice and make it warm)

3. Pour out the water and mix in all the rest of the ingredients.

4. Put a slice of bread onto the sandwich press and scoop all the ingredients on top, cover with other slice of bread and sandwich press until toasted to your liking. Meanwhile make cup of coffee/tea and wash up all the bowls/graters whatever you used.

5. Eat with cup of coffee/tea.

Dead simple

Lesson learnt: Never use vintage cheese for toasted sandwiches, way too strong. But otherwise good taste of sweetness from the corn , saltiness from the cheese and the slight onion flavour from the chives.

Eat whilst reading the Jamie Oliver section of the Weekend liftout from the Herald Sun and the food section in the Good Weekend liftout from The Age. Jamie Oliver's pancakes with pancetta looked way nicer than my sandwich =(