International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate women everywhere.  There have been three main women in my life – my mother, my wife and my daughter (an honorable mention to my older sister but I will be using my love for her to discuss a different recipe).  I cannot express enough the depth of my love for these wonderful women.  So on International Women’s Day I do my best to honor the three of them.  I do this by cooking, in memory of my mother, the dish she would always cook for me whenever I came home to visit as she knew I loved it so much!  I’ve carried this on by cooking it for my wife and daughter.  Though it is not the most ‘feminine’ meal, it always reminds me of my mum and it satiates my 2-year old’s craving for meat as well as my wife’s enjoyment of not having to cook after a long day at work.  So let me share with you Big Angry Trev’s mothers recipe for ‘Oven-cooked T-Bone Steak & Onions with Mashed Potatoes and Mushroom Gravy.

Ingredients:

2 x 400gm T-Bone Steaks

4 x Large Potatoes

1 x Large Onion, diced

1 ½ x Tablespoons of Gravy mix powder

1 x 165gm can of Sliced Mushroom in Butter Sauce

½ cup x Full Cream Milk

1/3 cup x Grated Cheddar Cheese

25gm of Butter

Handful of Beans

Handful of Broccoli

Diced Carrot and Corn

Cooking Oil

Salt

Water

 

Method

Step 1:

• Remove steak from fridge and coat with salt and oil 20 minutes before cooking
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees
• Boil 2 pots of water
• Peel potatoes
• Chop up remaining vegetables

Step 2:

• Put steaks on shallow oven dish and place in oven
• Put potatoes on to boil
• Mix up jug of gravy powder and water

Step 3:

• After 15 minutes take steaks out of oven. Drain excess fat.  Flip steaks and cover with diced onion then place back in oven
• Put beans, broccoli, carrot and corn on to boil in second pot

Step 4:

• Take potatoes off the boil. Mix with butter, cheese and milk and mash thoroughly
• Put gravy mixture on to heat until boiling. When boiling add can of mushroom sauce, mix thoroughly and simmer on low for two minutes

Step 5:

• Remove steaks from oven when onion has browned
• Take vegetables off boil and drain
• Place steak & onions, vegetables & mashed potato on plate
• Fill gravy boat with mushroom gravy.

 

And there you have it.  I have many very fond memories of my mother cooking this for me and I know it always brought a smile to her face to see how much her grown-up son enjoyed it whenever he came home to visit.  I now do my best to recapture that magic by cooking it for my own family and if my mother is up above somewhere I hope she thinks I am doing her recipe justice.  I hope this recipe can bring you some fond family memories as well.

 

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