Filet Mignon and Chi-Chis

Week 16 (made up on April 24, 2010) 

As you've probably noticed, lately we've been "making-up" our Wednesday night dinners on the weekends. For some strange reason, Wednesdays are turning out to be our busiest night of the week! During this week I had dinner plans, which eventually turned into a few chi-chis (the DRINK people) for my friend Jennifer's birthday.

We decided to splurge a bit in honor of Geoff's multiple job offers (and by multiple offers, I mean 2).  I found a recipe for filet mignon on charred onions and zucchini with balsamic vinegar sauce. We went over to Whole Foods to pick out our fillet. This was our first time buying filet mignon, so we didn't know how much to buy. We ended up buying 2 fillets, weighing about 1.5 lbs @ $27/pound! Isn't that an insane amount of money?? Luckily, the rest of our ingredients, onions and zucchinis, were cheap, so it still came out pretty reasonable overall (and cheaper than at a restaurant).

We started by chopping the veggies.

 

Then moved on to the reduction sauce, which called for some red wine.Since you should cook with wine that you would drink, we naturally decided to use a Cuvaison Pinot Noir.

We bbq'd the filet and served it with mashies and garlic bread. I think we may have overcooked the meat, so it wasn't the best filet mignon I ever had, but I really liked the combination of onions, zucchini and balsamic vinegar sauce. We found that we bought waaaaaaay to much filet mignon, so next time we will buy half of what we bought. Overall, this was a super easy recipe and I definitely recommend it for a special occasion, just try not to overcook the meat!

Our rating for this recipe: 7.5 (Mayra 8; Geoffrey 7)