MJ Cuisine

Yes ladies I cook *smug look* I must be the ultimate man * smuggier look* . Seriously though I was just in the mood for cooking and I wanted to share these coupla recipes with you ,the nice thing about these recipes that they dont take long time to do and with minimum effort and ingredients. The 1st dish is my signature dish sort of speaking its the steak with the dijon mustard sauce . This dish is simpler than simple yet it gives a great taste all you need is :

• Some steaks ( i preffer to cut the steaks and work with steak strips to cook them with the sauce which adds to the sauce a nice thickness and flavour )
• Whipping cream ( not whipped cream )
• Dijon mustard
• Butter
• Salt & black pepper

Get a nice frying pan thats a little deep or a pot and put it on the stove add around 2 tbspns of butter (use butter as ghee or oil will not give the same taste)

Add the steak and salt and pepper to taste and cook the steak strips till they are cooked to your taste ( but usually steak strips cant be cooked to different temperatures like medium well and rare )

when the steaks are cooked start adding the whipping cream ( usually between 1 and a half cup to 2 cups ) u can choose weather u want the steak to be floating in the sauce or just a little bit i use around 2 cups for 3 whole steaks ,stir for a little while and then add 1 tbspn of dijon mustard and start stirring you will find that the sauce started getting a nice light bronzish color and it will start getting thicker .

at this point you can taste the sauce if you are happy with it then voila you are done if not you can add some more dijon if u feel like you need more powerful flavour or if the whipping cream is too much.

NOW this 2nd dish goes very nicely with the steak we just did or you can do it as a nice side dish with other stuff and as well doesnt need a lot of effort all you need is :

• Potatoes
• 1 large kraft cheddar (blue can)
• Red onion
• Milk
• Butter
• Flour
• Salt and black pepper

you start by boiling the potatoes and grating the cheese (a little MJ tip if you alwayssuffer from the cheese sticking to the grater just put a few olive oil drops on a kleenix and whipe the grater with it ) and cut the onion to nice thin strips. When the potatoes are ready peel them and dice them into thick chips.

bring a pyrex and start laying the potatoes on the floor till its all covered and make sure to salt them to you taste because if you dont salt them now they will be saltless and just add a pinch of black grounded pepper. between the potatoe chips you can add some onion stripes ( don't add much its just to add some flavour and few ones will do the trick).

now you should have something that looks like this or even better ( my kitchen was crowded and my parents were all over

dad : the steak seems burned .

5 mins after

mom : the steak seems uncooked.

once you have the 1st layer down and all the potatoes sliced start making the cheese topping

in a pot over the stove add 2 tbspns of butter and 2 tbspns of flour and start mixing them for 30 seconds or so till its doughy like then add one cup of warm milk and stirr it for a couple of minutes and when its hot enough start adding the cheddar cheese few bits at a time and stir it till theres no cheese lumps and its one creamy thick mixture.

take it off the stove and add just a little on your potatoes in the pyrex and put it aside and start doing another potatoe layer the same way you did the first layer and dont forget the salt and the few onions . when the 2nd layer is finished add the whole of the mixture and cover the top of it.

stick it in the oven on broiler(shwaya) for 5 mins just to give it a nice golden color ,,, it should look like 3 minutes before this ( again the kitchen was crowded )

there you have it two nice dishes that when i did them everyone liked they go great together and if you want to keep the potatoe dish as a side dish and serve the steak with white rice it also works great .

your final dish should look something like this .

Bon apetit

and looking forward to hear your critique