A special day needs a special recipe. Well, I'm just kidding. I feel that any day can be a special day to cook up a special meal. However, we thought of taking this opportunity to treat ourselves with the real thing - beef steak!
We have tried Heston's method of cooking a steak with pork chops last month. This time, we got steak and tried it again. The outcome was indeed lovely and great! No gravy needed ^_^
The salad was drizzled in home made honey mustard dressing. How is this made? Simples! All you need is garlic, honey, mustard, oil and some balsamic vinegar. Chop finely a clove of garlic and mix it together with equal portion of honey & mustard. Add slightly more oil to make the dressing smoother. Generally, I think this dressing has a thicker consistency compared to vinegrette which is more diluted. So don't worry if the dressing is thicker.
The brown sauce on the potato mash? I cheated on that... hehehe. Well, you can make your own brown sauce by frying some onions, add in some oyster sauce / soya sauce, followed by flour that is diluted in water. Because we bought an instant brown sauce granules, we are trying to finish them but we did some modifications - added some port in it : P Cooking wine would be fine too!
This meal has made us really stuffed and contented. We are also pleased with our 'western food' skills too. After staying in the UK for about 5 months, we are able to cook some western meals without the need of going to spend a fortune : ) This meal only costed us RM35 for both of us and I'm sure you cannot get this rate for 'Valentine's Menu' at many restaurants. Maybe Mamak shops or Chinese coffee shops. LOL!
TheLoyalFan says: 'Steak and friends sure were good!'
Friends? Well, they did complimented each other : )
Till then, keep nomming!
So there were more than two of you? O.o?
ReplyDeleteNope, still both of us. It was the Steak and his 'friends' a.k.a. mash and salad ^^
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