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Steak and Salad

I gave my fillet steak another go tonight, steak tartare, not for everyone but I surely love it! I used an  Anthony Bourdain recipe, you might recall him, he had a TV show and went off of eating junkets all over the world, but he ate EVERYTHING, so raw steak and egg is nothing. I never saw it but he was very entertaining I understand. I have a book or two, one it is a lecture from cover to cover you need to be paying attention and getting it right. Another one is the only cookbook in the world I have come across with the C word in it, other than my wikedstepsister’s Clean Eats from a Filthy Mouth. Although it is almost de rigueur to swear these days, I must have been ahead of my time, I heard them say fuck again on RNZ tonight. Anthony was an advocate and  exponent of classic French bistro, he had one in New York, typical of an American to be a self-professed prophet on another culture. Here it is dinner for one.



 Steak Tartare with Avocado and Salad Turnip

For the tartare

1 small egg yolk

1 t wholegrain mustard

1 t worchestershire sauce, I used home made

½ a t blue thunder blueberry hot sauce

1 t salted capers

1/8th of a red onion

A capful of cognac

½ t olive oil

Small handful of coriander or parsley

Black pepper

150g filet steak

Finely dice the onion and capers ,mix with all other ingredients except the steak. Finely dice the steak, mix with the sauce, good to go.

For the salad

½ an  avocado

A salad turnip

A few fine sliced of red onion

1 clove of garlic, peeled

1 t lemon juice

1 t olive oil

A pinch each of salt and black pepper

Pound the garlic in a pestle and mortar with the salt and pepper, add the oil and lemon juice, finely slice the turnip and avocado, combine with the onion and dressing and serve with the steak.

You can get blue thunder blueberry hot sauce from Krakin Chillies, www.chillies.co.nz , Jase is the master of hot sauce.

And you can check wikedstepsister here, she is a bit flasher than me! https://www.cleaneatsfromafilthymouth.com/

And Anthony topped himself so you cannot look him up........................

 

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