Steak Dinner

Okay. Imagine me trying to cook a steak. Well I did. I love steak, and I love them rare, and I would love to know how to cook a good steak myself. They say it all depends on the kind of steak it is, there's rib eye, round eye, top sirloin, strip loin, T-bone, something something and I could never remember which one's the good one when I'm at the grocery store, and I usually go for the cheaper ones as I don't want to ruin a good steak with my terrible cooking, it'd just be a waste. Also they're better on grill, and we don't have a grill at home. I remember someone telling me that since I like it rare I could easily pan-fry the steak a little bit on each side to keep the juices in, then pop it in the oven for a little bit. I've actually never tried it that way. But I have been pan-frying my steaks and they either turn out raw or overdone. I just don't know how to tell how cooked a piece of meat is!!  So for my steak, I usually just season it with salt and pepper and garlic (if I have any). I don't like too much strong flavors overpowering the natural flavor of my steak, that's why I never use any steak sauce or anything like that either. Now I wasn't sure if you were supposed to pound the steak to break the tendons but I did that once and the steak got so thin that it was overcooked really fast, guess I should have known, so I never pound my steak since. I've also added some shrimps and an egg. As you can see the egg was.. what the heck was it?? It wasn't scrambled, sunny side up, or easy over, it was just a pan fried egg. The shrimps, I like cooking shrimps. I always make sure I don't over cook them as it'd make them too dry and hard (learned that lesson), and all I do is pan-fry them in butter if I have some, with garlic if I have some, and always always with black peppers but never salt! I find that shrimps in themselves are already salty enough. So here's my attempt at a steak dinner, and as you can probably tell the steak is more cooked than how I'd like it to be!