Couscous Controversy

After deciding to make couscous, the store trip became more controversial than intended. He would've been fine with just beef and couscous (or just beef). She insisted to buy mushrooms, thyme, cashews, onions, tomatoes and so on. It was decided (she decided) that they would make Beef Cashew Couscous, Tzatziki and Tomato Salad. While cooking she cut her finger. He knew that sharpening the knives had been a bad idea. Here's the dish she cooked while he whined about how long it took.

Beef Cashew Mix

480g of beef strips

200g mushrooms

1 bundle of spring onions

150g of cashew nuts

Oil, salt, pepper mix, thyme

Slice the mushrooms and chop the spring onions. Fry the cashew nuts slightly on a pan. Cook the beef strips in a bit of oil on a big pan and add the spices and thyme. Let the meat cook on low heat for 20 minutes to make it tender. Add the mushrooms and the cashew nuts to the meat. Let the mixture cook for 5 minutes. Then add the spring onions to the mix. Serve on top of the couscous.

Couscous

4dl couscous

4dl of beef stock

1tbsp of oil

Boil water and add a beef stock cube and oil to it. Take the pot off the heat and add the couscous into it. Stir and let it rest for 5 minutes.

Tzatziki

3dl of Turkish yoghurt

2 cloves of garlic

1/2 cucumber

1 tsp of salt

1 tsp of pepper

(fresh mint)

Grate the garlic and cucumber. Dry the excess water off the cucumbers. Mix garlic and cucumbers into the Turkish yoghurt. Add the salt and pepper to the mixture. Chop and add 3 leaves of fresh mint. 

At dinner she, he and his flatmate enjoyed the Finnish Summer weather in the yard. His flatmate gave her compliments on the food and asked her where she had learned to cook like this. He on the other hand was too hungry to bother.