Cooking Session

Since there was absolutely nothing to eat at home, my brother and I decided to go to the supermarket, and do some shopping. So we bought some meat ("Beiried"), chestnuts, some buns and beer. Since my brother works as a cook in a restaurant neither of us wants to disclose, he knows quite a lot about cooking, and so we improvized beefsteak with chestnut sauce. And this is (IMHO) the thing that makes the difference between hobby cooks and really good, professional ones: the latter ones can just start cooking, without a recipe, and they will most likely not mess it up.

The first step was to roast the chestnuts, since we would need them for the sauce. Then, we prepared the meat, we salted it, and spiced it up with some pepper and dried chilli. When the chestnuts were done, we chopped them. Then the meat: we put up a hot pan with some oil, and put the meat pieces into it. According to my brother, the most important thing is not to sting anything into the meat, so do not use a fork or anything similar to pick up the meat and/or turn it around. We roasted the beef on both sides, and put them on a plate.

Now the sauce: first, my brother chopped onions and garlic, and gently roasted them. Then he added some cream, cooked that up, added some more cream, some salt, some water, more cooking, the chopped chestnuts, more water, some creme fresh, and more cooking. One important thing: make the sauce in the same pan in which you roasted the beefsteak before. According to my brother, that's crucial for the taste. Anyway, after a few minutes, the sauce itself had reached a wonderful taste, and we again added the steaks, including the "juice" that had collected on the plate, and cooked that for a few more minutes. Then, the steaks were finished, and we served it to ourselves, with a wonderful beer.

All in all, it was a really nice experiment, and most likely daily routine for my brother, but we both had plenty of fun not only with the cooking, but also with the eating. If anybody's interested in trying to do that, don't ask me for a recipe, because neither my brother nor I know the exact amount of ingredients. Nevertheless, I can only recommend this wonderful beefsteak variation, if you like beefsteak, you will enjoy this one! If you are interested in a more complete photographic documentation, just have a look at my gallery.