Wine Soaked Steak

Thin cut chips and sweetcorn with butter for the sides. Not too interesting.

Steak well massaged with salt n way too much pepper, left t sit for a bit.
Meanwhile chopped finely nearly a whole small bulb of garlic, it was half sprouting so removed the sprouts, so it wasn't a whole bulb really. Finely chopped 2 shallots and put aside in a bowl with the garlic.

Waited for chips t oven themselves till nearly ready. Got a pan hot and bothered with olive oil. Fucked in the steaks t sizzle till done. -scorch the sides t seal the juice and left for a little extra t cook a bit. - the steaks were browning and going out of date, but it actually made them very flavourful! I got 2 good sized sirloin steaks for 39c in Tesco discount section!!

Took out the steaks and added a tiny bit of water to lift the steak brown bits off the pan scrubbing vigourously with a spatula to make sure all the steak goodness was lifted off the pan. Threw in garlic/shallots for a couple o minutes t soften with a small bit of stock cube (NOT GRAVY GRANULES!) then lashed in a nice bit o red wine i picked up for a fiver (Donatello Pinot Noir 2009 €5) -it was actually better than the drinking wine i'd bought! Good shit. Brought back t the boil then fucked in the steaks for a sec t reheat them as they'd cooled slightly.

BANG! Fuck the chips n sweetcorn into serving bowls, pop the steaks into middle of plate and lash out the chunky wine/pepper sauce. Fucking mint!

If I sound like Jamie Oliver at all it's because I was watching him today. I tried t stay away from using garlic but saoirse (me bird) insisted. Also I used none of the new additions t my reportoire, asides from shallots and a new sense of taste (giving up smoking has been such a gift t my new found sense!).