First Christmas I spent alone with the wife. We're usually traveling to see family but decided to stay home this year. I'm not really a filet guy, but the wife is so I went with it.
started with two huge filets, shrooms, rosemary, a some poblanos, and a few off pic ingredients.
Roasted the mushrooms in a hot oven with some chopped poblano, garlic, shallot, and a little parmesan.
into a hot cast iron pan to get a good crust, when flipped I dropped some butter and rosemary and spoon basted. No need for oven, these are finished on the stove top.
plating done. I took the leftover poblanos and added them to some horseradish, cream, onion, garlic, etc. and made nice poblano horseradish cream sauce. topped with the filet and then spooned the roasted mushrooms around it.
money shot
and as a bonus, washed down with a local breweries seasonal offering. Saddlebock Brewery's Vanilla Bourbon Porter