Today's Dinner

My girl and I love to have steak for dinner. When we went to Fairway, where is the most our favorite grocery store in the town because it has pretty much every thing that i need for cooking in low cost, we picked some stuffs for our sandwiches for next week school lunch. I'll restart to study English in the progress of entering Culinary Institute of America so we both agreed that we should reduce the food expenses due to economy crisis and too high exchange currency rate. While we were picking up some stuffs for the sandwich, we were talking about what we were going to have for the dinner. My lady loves my risotto so she asked me about it. But the problem was that we ran out of cooking white dry wine. If we buy it, we were going to spend so much money for grocery even if we bought a cheap bottle of wine.
At the Fairway, we could find cheap price of beef yet, i believe, it has better quality than any stores. So, I planed to make the steak, mash potato mixed with roasted garlic and semi-dried halves plum tomato for our dinner. I chose a pack of three sliced pieces of Beef Bottom Round. I knew it is not the best part for steak but i believe that it has good fatty so thinly sliced this part is not too bad. In fact, the cost was only $3.66. Well, what the hell it is good cheap steak for poor students like us.
I like to cook potatoes with milk because it makes rich flavor, so i did. Meanwhile the potatoes were cooking in mixture of salted 90% of milk and 10% of water , unpeeled three cloves of garlic with extra virgin olive oil and Rosemary were roasted in 140 Celsiuses. In order to the garlic infused the flavor of olive oil and rosemary, I made a little pocket, which made of aluminium foil. I put everything into there and then i closed it. The best way to find out whether it is cooked is to pock with thin stick. Simply the stick smoothly goes inside, it is cooked.
In our kitchen, we have a little oven for toasting bread or something. It has a function of controlling time and temperature which helps me to cook small amount of food. In same degree, i also cooked tomato halves. All three tomatoes were cut in half and placed on the tray. Cut surface should be up. I just left these in the oven until the potatoes cooked. Once the potatoes were cooked, draining the potato and mashing was the next step. I peeled garlic skin and then mashed it with potato. Heavy cream is for making the mash more smooth. Unsalted butter is for making rich favor. In old cook book said the amount of butter is half equal amount of potato. It sound liked really fatty but, trust me it is really good. Thinking of roasted garlic flavored mash potato, that sound makes me mouth watering all the times and it is fucking good with steak.
I got three thin pieces of steak so i cooked these in very hot pan for a couple of minutes and then rested it for same time as cooking time when every side dishes were ready to eat. Medium-rare is obviously the best temperature for steak.
Total cost $8 for steak dinner, the cost of steak, potato, garlic and tomato. I don't normally like to eat steak with gravy. What i like is only salt and pepper or whole grain seed mustard, that is the way i can taste the beef not sauce. Because of my habit, i could save some money to make or buy gravy.
Try today!! It is so good!!

Donation

I've tried for one hours to figure out how to put the donation button into my blog. It was pain in my ass. I dare to ask people whoever can help me out to finish my study and journal. All the money you gave me will be used for paying tuition, bill, and any education expenses. Any amount of donation will be appreciated. Because I've been helped from people, I will cook better food and innovated cuisine. Thank you for all your help.

Quick say something

This is totally out of continuing my story but, I want to say something since i have my blog. This is quite addictive. Past a coupe days, I spent many hours to reorganize the blog and writing something. Today weather is little bit cloudy. For me, this kind of weather makes me feel lazy and depressed but my lady loves this weather. She asked me to go outside to enjoy the weather. So, I've been loving this weather becasue she feels better when the weather like today. Probably, we will walk around Menhattan and drink cups of coffee. Luckly, she found a coffee shop where sold hand drip coffee. By now, she almost done with her make-up and dresse up. Good day, today. I've been feeling blue recently. So many things drove me nut. I need fresh air, although Menhattan's air is not that fresh than i wanted.

Continuing the story of my life

Anyway, working in the restaurant was not my interests when i was a high school student. Since i failed to enter Army academy, i had no choice of my career. My teacher told me to study police law instead study military. Well, i really hate to study, only one thing i like was to make money. Therefore, i used work with my mom at mom's restaurant. The restaurant was supposed to be my father's second restaurant but my father broken his restaurant so it was only thing that left to my mom. My mom hired one middle-aged lady who can work in the kitchen. My mom work both side between Kitchen and restaurant. My position was a waiter. the restaurant was very small. It had only six tables so 24 sit restaurant. The problem was every customers had to take of their shoes in order to sit. The problem was actually made the customers walked away. The restaurant was Korean restaurant which specialized Korean BBQ. We had cheap frozen-rolled-pork-belly. We used a slicer machine to thinly slice it. Which was totally big hit. Low price and tasty pork belly was liked by every person who visited. At these days, people had light pockets due to horrible economic situation so, people looked for cheap food. It was good business for a while before many restaurants around our restaurant started putted same menu we had. it was disaster that we had to changed new menu. My mom shut down the BBQ restaurant and then reopened Ramen restaurant. It was doing alright but people had to keep taking off their shoes so, eventually, my mom had shut down the restaurant. I worked for my mom for three for four months right after i finished final exam. I didn't know what i can do so i made money while i was searching for what i can do. With low college exam, i failed every college i applied. One day, i found culinary courses at continuing education center at a college. It was only for a year so perfect for me. $1000 for one semester was really reasonable price. I had a saving so i could afford it.
-Well, my girl friend is missing me right now because I've been writing this for over one hours. I got to back to my lady so the story will be back soon

First note

I don't know but, I though if I had my blog to show people who I am and what I am doing, I could ask them some donations. I need more money to study. All my money and my family's money were all into my education but I still couldn't graduate and I still need more money to complete my study. Almost nine years experiences at the kitchens wasn't good enough to get a job any where in the world as a Korean who cooks at European Kitchen. I'm here, in New York. I was supposed to finish ELS course last year so that i could enter Culinary Institute of America this year. Though, i got lost many times. I had been really stupid. I could not see what is the first and what is the next. I had tried many thing to enter CIA as soon as i can yet, whenever I tried, the time had never been shorter; it had been more slower and more difficult to enter. My mom, she is a single mother. I had a father. He was not a family guy. Well, he probably loved his family so much so, he showed his love by working so many hours to make more money, which i absolutely appreciate my father. If he didn't work hard i probably could haven't graduated high school. One day, his passion and desire of owning a Korean restaurant closed his Chinese restaurant and then opened Korean restaurant. The restaurant was big hit. People loved my father's cooking. Morning television show had been even introduced the restaurant. His restaurant was doing well until IMF had helped Korea economic. He had a lot of debts. In fact he landed some money from family member and illegal loan office, which usually has high interest and owns by gangsters. Broken Korea economic had pushed people out of street and brought people to end of the lives. Everyday news reported who suicide and how unempoyers lived on the street; only sad news that is all I can recall. Everyone closed down their own business like domino effect so did my father. At that time, i was last year at high school. I couldn't make to university nor college. it wasn't just because of my parents didn't have money. I originally planed to enter Army academic but, my grades were way too below than what they required. I was totally lost my dream. I even though join the army to be a Sergent. My mom offered to me what if i become a chef. I often used to help my parents' business when i was high school. I had never though to work at same filed as my parents. I had tried to help my father when he was working in his kitchen but, he had never allowed me to enter his own territory. As result, I had never learned anything from my father yet, I had a floor manger position because I was son of the owner. It could be really funny. Could you image that a little teenager ordered all the employee who to do? As matter of the fact, they were very nice so I had never had any problem with my managing skills.
-to be continue-