Sup /ck/. The tl;dr of the situation is that I'm poor as shit and trying to make it through a month and a half with the food I have on hand and posting it here to distract myself. Yesterday's thread: >>7709304
Today I decided to make one of these PREMIUM USDA CERTIFIED ANGUS eye of tound etc.'s that I got 3 for 7 dollars (sure it's cheap but ANGUS means good, right?) and some rice. But that's far too simple of a meal, far far too simple. So I've decided to make sushi rice instead
>But anon that's so much fucking sugar
I know, but I have rice vinegar so I figure I should use it. Besides, how hard could making sushi rice really be?
This is a story of hubris.
Well first things first, I'm leaving the meat out to come to room temperature
>>7713204
>7.04
for some shitty meat, you suck at being poor.,
>>7713210
Next is the rice. The sushi rice recipe that I have right now is for 2 cups, so I'm making four so that I can use some to make fried rice tomorrow. My thinking is that it will be easy to take 2 cups of rice out of the cooker by just dividing what comes out in half and adding that half to the recipe
>>7713211
I live in Hawaii, it's the way things are.
>>7713217
And forgot the picture
>>7713221
Putting this in the rice cooker
>Anon why the fuck do you have an 8 cup rice cooker?
Because I'm literally retarded.
>>7713226
As we get deeper in, I would like to reiterate from yesterday that I am NOT a good cook. I salt the steak before cooking. I'm just going to do it on my skillet.
>>7713233
And since the rice is getting close to being finished I start on the rice vinegar. I mix 4 cups of water, 2/3 cups of vinegar, a dash of oil, 1/4 cup of sugar and heat them on medium until the sugar disappears. Sure seems like a lot of liquid for two cups of rice!
>>7713245
Speaking of which, the rice is done. Better get started on that 100% PURE ANGUS.
>>7713250
I have a great idea! I will cook this steak with butter instead of oil, let's melt this down.
>>7713255
In the meantime this rice vinegar mixture seems pretty well mixed. I'll need to wait for both it and the rice to cool before mixing.
Angus is a cow breed commonly found in beef along with Hereford, Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn, etc
It doesn't really mean anything.
>>7713264
Forgot that picture, but fuck it. It looks like water in a pot.
Now for the actual steak cooking! 3 minutes on one side...
>>7713276
Flip, and...
Oh dear. There seems to be some smoke, fellas.
>>7713275
I know anon, I was funnin' around.
>>7713287
But even so, I soldier on. While that finishes cooking I'll mix this rice vinegar in with this rice, like so.
>>7713298
Huh. That is a lot of liquid. Well, it's supposed to absorb in as it cools, so I'll be folding it in for a bit.
>>7713287
>its burnt
>>7713306
gold
you shouldn't have used butter, or any oil in the pan at all
dust the steak with oil, apply salt + pepper
get that pan hot as fuck
drop it in and cook depending on thickness
>>7713306
The steak is fine enough, I crack some pepper on it and let it rest for a bit. The rice folding seems more important.
>>7713313
TOO LATE WE ONLY MOVE FORWARD
>>7713315
This rice...
This is a picture from ten minutes later. I mixed the rice over and over to this result. Swampy as fuck rice. I eventually just ate the steak because I was getting hungry and I'm only eating one meal a day.
>>7713330
30 minutes later. This is the point I which I realized that I don't know how wet sushi rice is supposed to be anyway. Fuck it, I'm not wasting food. I'll try some to see how it is.
>>7713339
I'll sprinkle some furikake on it, maybe that'll help. It's sushi rice, right? So some seaweed should help it, right?
>>7713359
Uh, no. No it did not help. It actually tastes like sushi rice, but it's much, much too wet. I'm packing it all up and putting in the fridge - if I know a place that'll dry up rice, it's there. I'll re-assess tomorrow morning and if it's still too wet I'll figure something out to do with it.
Today was a day of bad decisions. Maybe I'll do better tomorrow. I'll be trying to make some pork fried rice with the rest of the pork steak from yesterday and the non-ruined rice from today and we'll see how that goes. Enjoy your day, /ck/.
>>7713380
Your steak, although burnt on the outside, looked like it came out pretty good on the inside.
And just add WAY less rice vinegar next time, stir a little in at a time to your liking.
Could have been worse, live and learn. Cook that steak on a lower heat and no butter.
>>7713493
Brush butter on after its cooked if you must, but the beauty of a good steak is it is good all on its own. Salt+pepper should be all you need.
You need to wash the rice you idiot
>>7713745
>I don't know what a strainer looks like!
>>7713359
>sprinkle
