A Man does Grocery Shopping & Sirloin Steak Recipe

What's Inside a Man's Grocery Bag?

Throughout the years of studying and living abroad in Australia, J is used to home-cooked food served up fresh and piping hot during lunch and dinner times. There was not one moment where he needs to ponder what ingredients to buy in the market, what to cook and whether there's sufficient nutritious value for the day.

And so, when J had to live alone for 2 months (me being in Malaysia for personal reasons), busy with stressful assignments and natural lack of motivation and interest to cook proper food, he will resort to eating outside or cooking simple food at home.

I will always have to remind him to get enough vegetables and fruits, but he, like most guys out there don't really care much for vitamins and fibre intake, they normally just gobbled up whatever's that looked and smelled good, and for those lads who have to look after oneself, it would be even better if there's less cooking and cleaning up afterwards.

And so, are you interested to see what's inside J's grocery bag while he needs to feed himself? His motto while shopping for food: Must be *senang* / easy to prepare.

All are best accompanied with cold beer

*Man's grub for 2 weeks
2 Mc Cain's frozen pizzas
6 Four & Twenty beef pies
2 packets of Penne
3 jars of Dolmio pasta sauces
4 packets of Arnott's Tasty Jacks
4 fresh beef sirloin steaks

*can lasts longer if cooking involves too much work and resorts to eating out

Oh well. At least there's tomatoes and bits of veges there. Bet you guys would imagine that J is a triple-chinned burly man with protruding belly after seeing the pic, but he's in fact a very lean and active young guy with blessed infinite metabolism. Such is the life of a lad in his early twenties who's used to ready home-cooked food and now has to resort to cook for oneself, eh? My poor darling, I'll be making sure that he'll eat hot rice with 3 dishes when I'm back!! He he.

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Sirloin steaks for 2 (or for 1 very hungry man)


*danger: Meat overload ahead. May cause excessive drooling

J's working diligently on an assignment which is due the next day. All of a sudden, he felt hungry pangs. He had been ignoring the slight tummy rumblings earlier but now he's starving. No wonder, it's 7 pm and he had not eaten anything since morning. Feeling extremely hungry, he went to the kitchen to make himself sirloin steaks that he had bought in the supermarket yesterday. Easy, tasty and fuss-free!


Ingredients:
4 pcs of 150-200g of beef sirloin steaks
4 tbsp of olive oil
salt and freshly cracked pepper


Method:
1. Rub olive oil generously all over the steaks

2. Crack salt and black pepper on steaks to taste
3. Cook for 4 minutes on each side for medium
4. Remove the steaks and place on serving plates
5. Leave to stand for 10 minutes to let juices in the steaks 'settle down' (this is to ensure that
the steaks stay juicy and to avoid juices running out when cut)

Place 2 steaks on a hot pan

Crack fresh black pepper on top



Turn around after 4 minutes on medium heat



Nearly done now



Leave to rest for 10 minutes



Juicy

2 steaks done in 8 minutes for medium-cooked. However, after thinking that he would need to freeze the rest of the steaks (and when he wants to eat it in the future, he would need to let the steaks thaw in room temperature for few hours before he could cook them - as if he got time to plan his meals!!), J got put off and decided to cook the rest! All 4 steaks of it...

Juicy steaks ready to be devoured

Massive and yummy isn't it? The steaks are eaten with swigs of icy cold beer. If I was there, I would serve the steaks with potatoes and greens. But he couldn't really bothered with peeling potatoes and cutting broccoli. Haha. He reckons the steaks aren't as tender as the scotch fillets he had before, but still at least it made the hungry pangs go away.. In the end, he can't finish them, looks like the eyes can eat more than what your tummy can hold - and the dogs got to eat the leftovers.

Lucky them.

Thanks for the pics, dear!