Valentine's Day Steak Dinner

I am so behind on this blog. Where did January go?? I was sick. And married. No relation, obviously.

Anyway, I have tons of pictures stored on the computer, lots of dinners to write about, but just haven't had the time to post. I guess I'll have to go backwards.

Hubby was really sweet about Valentine's Day this year -- he sent me gorgeous flowers at work, so I decided to cook up something extra special for dinner that night.

On the menu --

- oven roasted potatoes
- pepper crusted filet mignon
- slow roasted tomatoes



The potatoes were yummy -- I just cut up some white potatoes, drizzled them with olive oil, and sprinkled with sea salt, cracked pepper, and rosemary. I didn't put them in soon enough, so even at 450 degrees they needed at least another 15 minutes to be nice and soft. They were still a little raw in the middle, but, cest la vie.

Tomatoes were sooo good. I love roasted tomatoes. I used Roma tomatoes sliced in half lengthwise. Drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with thyme. Put them in the oven at a low heat (I think I did around 275 degrees) and let them roast until they collapse. It took about 45 minutes for me and my oven.

The steaks were the first steaks that were semi-successful for me. I seriously don't know how to cook meat. I coated the filets with lots and lots of cracked pepper and some sea salt. I cooked them in olive oil in a hot pan about 7 minutes on each side. I burned the first side (D always is paranoid about uncooked meat so I went overboard). The second side was much more successful (and photogenic) :) I'll have to watch them more carefully next time. Oh and D's ended up a little rarer than I would've liked. Increase the time for one of his thickness.

Seriously though I was impressed by myself even :) And it was so easy!