Anniversary Dinner!

Marty and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary a little bit early while we were in Disney World, so we decided to cook on the actual night.  We made filet mignons topped with mushrooms and gruyere cheese wrapped in puff pastry with a rosemary port reduction!  It was simply (although not simple to make) delicious!!  Sooo if you tend to not cook so much, this recipe comes with a warning label: its tough to make!

Finely chop the mushrooms.

Season the top and bottom of the filets with salt and pepper.

Finely chop garlic and shallots and make 2 piles.  You will need some for the mushrooms and some for the reduction.

We used puff pastry shells.

Grate the Gruyere!

Roll out the puff pastry a tad.

Get a little dirty and flatten with your hands.

These will be the bottom pieces that the filets lay on.  Bake them first, so they won't get soggy.

Saute butter and olive oil until it's smokin' hot!

Sear the steaks on all sides.

Preeettttyyyy.

For the rest of the puff pastry, cut out the center circles.

So they look like little rings.

Brush on an egg and water mixture so the pastry turns out nice and golden.

You will need two of the centers for later.

Stack two of the rings,

Sorry, this pic is out of order...just searing on all sides!

The baked "bottoms".

Press down on the centers so the steaks will fit right in!

Saute the garlic and shallots in butter for the mushrooms.

Place the steaks in the "bottoms".

Carefully fit the rings around each steak, trying not to tear the pastry.

Add the mushrooms.

Add the mushrooms on the top of each steak!

Next, add the cheese.

Place a center on top of each steak.  Make a couple of slits in each center so it can breath :)

Brush on some more egg.

Bake in the oven!

While they are baking, add the rest of the garlic and shallots to the pan that you cooked the steaks in.

Add rosemary.

Add the port!

Side garnish :)

TA-DA!! These are right out of the oven!!

We made mashed potatoes as well.  Lay the steak on top.

Aren't they pretty?!

Spoon over the port reduction.

Just lovely :)

Dig in!