Hmph. I'm sure I used to be able to cook a decent steak dinner. I remember when lark_ascending and I were going out, cooking steak was always my job (because it was within my meagre capabilities and therefore one of the few viable opportunities for it to be my turn to cook). I'm sure I could get it basically right back then.

Not any more, though. Steak medium rather than medium-rare, mushrooms burned, mashed potatoes rather more like a potato milkshake than solid food. Still edible, and not too unpleasant, but hardly the luxury meal I'd planned. Amazingly, the only thing I didn't somehow screw up was the pepper sauce, which despite being out of a packet was actually the most complex single component of the meal.

Ho hum. Could have been worse, I suppose. At least it was edible, and at least nobody was supposed to be sharing it with me…