Cooking with Raymond - Fillet Steak with Veg

[Raymond Lin]

All you need is some steak, and veg.

I have here some Fillet, broccoli and organic mushrooms. You can use any steak you like and any veg you like.

Season with salt and pepper, put some on the plate first then put the steak on, then season the other side. Don't need any olive oil since it will burn when you put it on the pan.

Heat the griddle pan until it is hot, put on the steak and don't touch it.

Wait for about 4/5 minutes and watch the sides cooking up.

Flip, and LEAVE it again

Now, make a cup of espresso (I needed my caffeine) or have a beer lol

After the steak is done, put it on a plate to rest. Put the mushrooms into the griddle pan, drizzle on some olive oil and just lightly fry them.

keep them moving until they start to sweat.

Serve with steamed broccoli and carrots.

I even made some bechamel sauce (White sauce) with butter, flour and milk, season and added some cheese, added extra grounded pepper so it goes better with the steak. (I didn't take any pics coz actually this was the hardest part, you can't stop or you will burn the butter.)

This is a good video to watch to learn how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdg5LITD-k

And serve

 

[Raymond Lin]

I think theres a problem with your camera, it seems to lose focus a lot of the time especially the background.

LOL,

wot no chips?

Low carb diet

 

[Raymond Lin]

I've always rubbed olive oil into my steak before chucking in the pan. Does it cook just as well without?

I used to, and you can but I tend not to as in high heat the olive oil will burn. Please with a season griddle pan it doesn't stick anyway.

Looks good.. but white sauce and steak? Err, NO!

Truth is that i realise at the last minute i had no sauce to go with it, and with only the basic ingredients at home, white sauce was the quickest thing to put together. Another truth is that i have never done it before, I googled it and found that video and just did what it says...I didn't even have a scale so I did all the measurements on the fly by guessing straight into the pan lol It came out REALLY well. It goes well with the meal actually as I added more pepper to give it a kick, and the cheese goes with the steak.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Easy, just make sure stuff is half out of focus and you'll get a similar effect

Now I know they are 'good' photos, it's clear to see, but on some of the shots the whole DOF thing is almost too much and makes it a bit hard on the eye.

Still good though, and made me hungry now dammit.

Some DOF are a bit extreme but so are the ISO on some, a few are 2500, as no flash were used, they were shot wide open or near enough wide open on a 35/1.4, 85/1.8 and 135/2.0.

Wanted to keep noise to a minimum.

 

[Raymond Lin]

come on Ray, how long have you been on these forums, you know better than to post a steak thread in GD.

Unless your steak is 4" thick virtually raw Waygu. wiped across the thigh of a virgin under a full moon, during a leap year and hand cut by Lord Lucan while riding Shergar. Then I'm afraid your thread will just get flamed.

In fact I would almost call creating a steak thread trolling

Looks very nice by the way. Id eat it.

Lol, i have no oven, but what would you like me to cook? I'll give that a bash and take some pics

 

[Raymond Lin]

He has 2 5DII's and iirc a 30D. Could've just used 3 cameras

Lol, no, just 1 camera, even change lenses in another room as i don't want any smoke get inside the camera...just in case. You just got to be quick!

I think most of the gridddle pan shots are 135L, hence the really shallow DOF because i am standing much further back, which causes the lower angle of view. The first shot when gar steak hits the pan it is the 85mm and the angle is slightly higher.