Filet Mignon with a home made lemon hollandaise sauce

Chili Head

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Hello everyone!

Tonight I made diner for the wife.
Filet Mignon with a home made lemon hollandaise sauce, baby red twice baked potatoes and grilled asparagus.

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First off I started with the potatoes. I baked them until partially done then sliced them in half. Once cool enough to handle I holed out the center.

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I mixed the scooped out potato with some shredded cheddar cheese,butter, salt and pepper. Next I just put that into the hole in the potato, put a little onion on top and it's ready to bake.

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Into #390 at 450° until they start turning brown.

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While those are baking I washed and trimmed some asparagus. This went on #390 as well.

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Now it's time to get the hollandaise sauce going.

1 cup of unsalted butter
1 TB spoon of minced onion
1/2 ts ground sea salt
1 TB water
1 TB plus 2 ts of fresh lemon juice
3 egg yolks
2 ts white wine vinegar
1/8 ts of cayenne pepper

First I melted the butter and set it aside to cool to room temperature.

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To be continued..
 

Chili Head

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Next in a small sauce pan over medium - high heat I cooked the onion, 1/4 ts of the salt, cayenne and vinegar until the liquid evaporated and the onion was dry.

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After that I removed the pan from the heat and added the water and stirred it in.

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Into a food proccessor goes the onion mixture, three egg yolks and 1 TS of the lemon juice.

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While the proccessor is running on low add the butter and run it until the mixture is smooth. You can season the sauce with the remaining 1/4 ts of salt and the lemon juice.

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Now it's time for the asparagus to come off and the filets to go on!

The filets only got a little fresh ground pepper and ground sea salt.

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The potatoes were nice and toasty and had to come off.
Whoa! Looks like a couple spears decided to jump into the fire! I didnt see it until the flash from the camera gave them away ;)

To be continued again..
 

Chili Head

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Ok it's now time for plating!

The filet was cooked to a nice medium rare to medium and I put a dollop of sour cream and some onion on the potatoes. The asparagus got a drizzle of the hollandaise sauce as well as the filet. I added the lemon slices as a garnish.

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The potatoes had a nice crust to them, the asparagus had a bit of a bite to it not mushy at all.
The filet was melt in your mouth tender! It's a shame I cant afford to eat it every day :D


Yes she was happy! :p
 

Chili Head

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Yeah it turned out good!
My doctor is going to spank me when I go in for my physical in October...lol


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Chili Head

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Thanks guys!
Those potatoes are killer and easy to make. Next time I'm putting bacon in them!


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sparky

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nicely done chili head. i would like a plate plz w/ my big glass of cold milk. really nice cook partner. :)
 
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