Nice pieces of cow

I live in one of the largest wooden structures in Australia, and apparently it is a $250 fee if my smoke alarm goes off and the fire brigade are called - so my decision to cook steak in my apartment was a risk! (although I do remember the days of Teddy Hall when we would deliberately set fire to sausages in Kelly IV so that firefighters would come and rescue us)


A waiter recently mocked me for asking for a rib-eye to be done rare, and I have actually been converted to eating rib-eyes a little more cooked. So I had a very nice medium steak with an avocado, tomato and red onion salsa (with plenty of yum cow fat):

The tomatoes were courtesy of Macro Wholefoods and were very flavourful and yummy - but then at a dollar each they should have been! I still haven't found the middle ground of good food yet - it is either posh butchers selling 6 slices of bacon for $10 or being depressed in supermarkets, but I guess that is the trade-off for living right in the centre of the city.