Potato surprise

The Woo and I celebrated our two year anniversary today.  We were going to go out for a meal to Loch Fyne in Sevenoaks but when she came home with a couple of gorgeous looking ribeyes from Haywards we decided to cancel the reservation and have a quiet night in with a bottle of champagne and some grub.

The steaks were cooked very rare just as we like them.  Tender as anything and full of flavour.  Oiled and seasoned then pan fryed for about 90 seconds each side in a blisteringly hot, ridged frying pan.

I knocked up a quick red cabbage; purely 'cos we had half to use up and I thought it would go well with the steak.

The inspiration of the evening was the 'use up everything in the fridge' accompaniament...in a pan I softened two cloves of garlic and a sliced red chilli in about 25g of butter with a lug of olive oil.  To this was added four large mushrooms which had been quartered, half a dozen baby leeks which were topped and tailed then cut into 2cm lengths, about half a dozen of the heritage baby toms from the farm shop which were halved/quartered; depending on size, a good squeeze of tomato puree and a liberal seasoning of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.  This was all cooked up and then used to dress some baby new potatoes fresh from Arthur's garden.  It worked a treat and my Rock Chick loved it.

Job done!  Here's to another year!