Ingredients:

• 3lb of beef sirloin
• 8oz of mushrooms, I used cremini mushrooms
• 1-1.5 cups of heavy whipping cream
• 5-6 bay leaves
• 1 big onion
• 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour
• Ground black pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• Oil, I prefer sunflower oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Warm up high side skillet with 2 tablespoons of oil over moderate heat. Peel onions, slice them in quarter circles, move them to the warmed up skillet and fry until brown and soft, stir occasionally:

   

3. Clean and slice mushrooms, add them to the skillet, stir and fry:

   

4. While mushrooms are cooking, slice meat into thin stripes:

   

5. Cook mushrooms with onions until juices evaporate:

   

6. Increase heat and add all meat to the skillet:

   

7. Stir and fry until all meat is colored from each side:

   

8. Then stir flour in:

   

9. Add bay leaves:

   

10. And cream:

    

11. Salt to taste:

    

12. And season with ground black pepper; cover with a lid, reduce heat to moderate and cook until meat is soft:

    

13. Serve as a main course with your choice of the side dish, I still think that boiled buckwheat is the best choice of side dish for beef stroganoff: