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... Mushroom Sauce & Spring Greens<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So this weekend I’m in Bath. \u00a0Bath is one of my favourite places in the world and i’m staying with my friends Pieter and Erin. \u00a0Saturday morning was spent in the market with Erin buying the ingredients for the three meals i’m going to cook this weekend. \u00a0I brought the most amazing mushrooms. \u00a0The last few ingredients were bought in the supermarket.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This meal requires four fillet steak medallions. \u00a0I do not eat fillet steak very much at all. \u00a0It’s one of those things that feels a bit opulent and it is reserved for a rare (rare) treat. There were two fillets to choose from. \u00a0The Aberdeen Angus one looked so much better, the meat was this deep purpley colour. The shape of this fillet was rounder and it suited the medallions required much better. \u00a0The Aberdeen Angus fillet is more expensive, of course. But despite the cost, four medallions of the Aberdeen Angus steak is bought. Sometimes it just feels right to spend more than is reasonable on some really good ingredients. \u00a0As one of the rules of doing this project is that every meal in the book must be cooked, one of the benefits is that it means that I have to cook some of the more special meals, the things that are just a rare treat, have to be cooked, they just have to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually cooking this one was easy. \u00a0As with most of these meals it’s quite important to get on with things at the beginning and so that all the various elements of the meal are underway. \u00a0But once that happened (potatoes and cabbage boiling, mushrooms frying, steak frying) there wasn’t much else to do. \u00a0Now I said the potatoes and cabbage were boiling. \u00a0The problem was they were not boiling. \u00a0Pieter and Erin’s hob really only has one burner that gives of a high heat. \u00a0It is used for the steak first. \u00a0Then things are moved around and its used for the mushrooms. \u00a0The steak is done and the mushroom sauce is done and on the serving plate before the fifteen minutes are up. \u00a0The potatoes are not cooked. \u00a0Not remotely. \u00a0The veg pan is moved to the one burner that works on a high heat. \u00a0They are done after 21 minutes and the meal is served by twenty two minutes and twenty two seconds. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This meal is great. \u00a0Obviously it is a very nice treat to have fillet steak. \u00a0But every thing else is delicious. \u00a0The greens are really lovely. They are drizzled in lemon juice and olive oil. \u00a0They taste great and fresh. \u00a0The mushroom sauce and the beautiful oyster mushrooms are gorgeous. \u00a0A really nice and special meal. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not to bothered about the time. \u00a0This could be done in the fifteen minutes, i’m sure. \u00a0After dinner was fireworks, watched for free from the bridge, and after fireworks a very lovely chocolate orange cake made by Erin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who with:<\/strong> Pieter and Erin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How long:<\/strong> Twenty two minutes and twenty two seconds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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