Steak isn't very hard to cook well. If you're interested in trying it, go to the meat counter at Whole Foods and ask for a medium-sized New York Strip steak, which should be about 3/4 lb or so. Bring it home, and refrigerate it until about an hour before you're ready to start cooking. At that point, take it out of the fridge, rub both sides with salt and black pepper, and let it stand and come up to room temp somewhere where the cats (if any) won't get at it. When it's time to cook, preheat a skillet over high heat, slap the steak right down into the skillet for about three minutes (no oil necessary), flip it (onto a different part of the skillet, if there's room), reduce the heat a bit, cook for about four minutes more, then cut into the center with the tip of a sharp knife and see how it's doing. Let it cook until the middle looks a little rarer than you like it (how long will depend on how you like it and the thickness of the steak, but probably not more than 3 or 4 minutes more, and maybe considerably less), then take it out of the pan, put it on your plate, let it stand for 5 minutes or so, and eat. :-9