Steakhouse Style Dinner Very Easy To Prepare: A super tender Filet Mignon with an intensely rich and flavorful Madeira sauce. 
To get a nice crust on the outside of the filet: salt and pepper the meat, then dip it in olive oil. Put the filet in a very hot pan and sear each side for three minutes without moving it. Finish cooking by putting the skillet right into a 450 degree oven to reach desired doneness depending on the thickness of the steaks. This steak took 3 minutes in the oven for medium. Let the meat rest before serving.
MADEIRA SAUCE
Cook 1 cup of Madeira wine with 1/4 cup of minced shallots and 1/2 teaspoon of thyme and reduce by about a third.
Then add 1 cup of beef stock and reduce further.
Whisk in 2 T. of butter and add fresh ground pepper and salt to taste.
Great with Hot & Garlicy Spinach and Soybeans.
Lori Lynn, This recipe sounds easy and very very tasty. BTW..your kitchen sounds wonderful and very artistic. Black. I never would have thought of it 🙂
I am getting so very hungry!
Love the idea of combining spinach and soybeans.
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Lori Lynn,
thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving the kind comment.
Would you have the recipe for the goulash? I could add my two cents, if you want me to. You could mail me at la_merisi (a) yahoo.de
Make sure to have plenty of good French bread to sop up the good sauce. 🙂
Hi Maryann – the sauce is so easy, the madeira brings so much flavor…
As for the paint, I am fearless, I have painted my house many colors, some rooms worked, some didn’t, but it’s only paint! You can paint over it 🙂
The black in the kitchen worked! Lucky.
Merisi – Thanks for the offer. I emailed you the goulash recipe! Hopefully, it will turn out to be “blog worthy.”
Looks yummy 🙂
JIllian
BIA – thanks for stopping by!