Meat sauce with a stroganoff twist

I felt like having something really typical Finnish, stuff we eat normally at home when everybody has gotten home from work or school. We sit by a dining table and talk about what has happened to everybody during the day.

This is pretty simple dish to cook. Any kind of meat will do, also pork goes well with the rest of the ingredients. I don't really have any certain amounts for everything since I just go by the flow and use hand measurements but I'll do my best.

500g beef cut in strips or cubes
50g bacon
5 dl water
3 medium sized gherkins
2tbsp mustard (Dijon)
salt, pepper, ketjap asin(salty soy sauce)
maizena (cornflour) and water for thickening

Get a pot and add bacon in it and stir until it gets nice and brown, then add pieces of beef and fry until they're brown too. Spice the meat with salt and pepper. Then add water, let it boil and turn on lower heat and let simmer for about an hour. Meanwhile dice the gherkins and then add them with meat. Once meat is tender, add mustard. Keep stirring until smooth, then add maizena in the water and thicken the sauce as thick as you wish. Last add the soy sauce to give the sauce nice colour. Serve with boiled potatoes and vegetables.

The picture isn't any good but we were hungry and already started mushing up the potatoes before took the picture. Also I forgot to get any vegetables so we just had really plain meal but it sure was really tasty.