EK tries to cook

EK finally makes a decent beefsteak

recipe:    https://www.tenderbites.ph/recipes/beef/bistek-tagalog

For some reason my mother manages to cook beefsteak by putting stuff in without taking anything out. In goes the soy sauce and the water, in goes the beef, in goes the onions. That left me confused because all the recipes say "set aside" "set aside". Cook the onions then set aside. Cook the beef then set aside.  But I no longer have that wisdom of why stuff goes in without taking anything out.  

Then my brother says "But you really have to set aside when you cook beefsteak." Okay, then. But I go through several beefsteak recipes and tried one or two and I keep not setting aside beef or onions in time, and stuff gets burned or overcooked.  

Enough googling finally led me to the website of the brand of where we get the sirloin for the beefsteak, and they do have a few recipes for their best meat cuts. And it has a recipe that makes sense to me. Which also means: it has NONE of the rambling that majority of recipes have on top, which is the same as all the rambling I see in majority of crochet patterns (online friend said it's generally needed for online copyright reasons, but it's still frustrating). Incidentally I didn't expect, or want, to be practiced in reading recipes by reading American and British crochet patterns. 

So, beef got marinated with a good amount of time, onions get cooked then set aside, beef gets cooked then set aside, water goes in. 

And a daddy gets called in, as designated please poke the meat with this fork and check if it's okay/soft/cooked enough already. That system works, and beefsteak gets cooked. 

We get beefsteak that is good enough to eat and tastes close enough to what we're used to eating.