I get bored in the kitchen preparing the same food over and over again every day, so sometimes, I tend to experiment a little bit. I wanted to have some minced meat pie, but since my oven went KABOOM-ed on me, I had no choice but to settle for something simpler, something that I can cook over the stove instead…. like French toast, but with simple minced meat with mushroom as the filling.

Here’s how I do it:

For the filling

1/2 can of button mushrooms (or if you have, you can use fresh button mushrooms)- sliced

100 grams of minced meat

Salt and black pepper to taste

To prepare for the filling, all you need to do is sauté the sliced button mushrooms in a frying pan along with minced meat til it’s fully cooked. Season with black pepper and salt, and put aside while preparing for the French toasts.

To prepare the French toasts:

Ingredients:

4 slices of stale bread

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 tablespoon of mayonnaise

Butter for frying

Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat them up lightly with 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise. Cut the stale bread and dip them in the eggs mixture. (Note: if you’re on a diet or something, use salt and pepper to taste instead of mayonnaise)

Heat up the frying pan and fry the bread til golden brown. Take out, and sandwich the fillings accordingly in between the breads. Drizzle generously with mayonnaise or tomato ketchup and serve while piping hot.

Cleffairy: This is nothing gourmet, but it satisfied my cravings for minced meat pies. Our world would be a happier place to live in if people make do with what they have instead of grumbling about things they cannot fix, no?

Bah, humbug! You don’t have to tell me. I know I have somewhat a very peculiar taste when it comes to food, and it’s very rare that restaurants could satisfy my taste-buds.

I bought some Australian beef that’s on sale last weekend, and thought that it’s perfect for making steak.

Unfortunately for me, I don’t have any spices to marinade the beef, and all that I have left was curry powder. Oh, well it’s better than nothing. Curry steak it is, then.

Ingredients:

Some beef, cut into steak pieces.

Salt

Curry powder

First of all, marinade the beef with salt and curry powder for 15 minutes before tossing it into the non stick frying pan. I like my steak medium rare, so I just cooked mine for about 10 minutes or so and serve it with some French fries.

Tips: Seal the beef moisture/juices by frying both side slightly before continuing to cook it to perfection. No oil is needed for cooking the steak. The heat would suffice, and natural curry sauce would emerge during the duration of cooking.

Up next is some salad with homemade croutons.

Ingredients for salad:

Some butterhead lettuce/ice lettuce/any sort of lettuce

Some cherry tomatoes

Stale bread

Oil for frying

Thousand Island sauce (optional)

Cut some of the stale bread into small pieces, and deep fry them for about 1/2 minute before tossing them on a bed of lettuce and cherry tomatoes. Squeeze in some lemon juice/ vinegar, and serve.

Alternatively, you can go extremely unhealthy like me, and use Thousand Islands dressing instead.

Cleffairy: I wonder how much those would cost in a steakhouse? Hmmmm….