Easter Saturday Steak Night

Unfortunately for me, Mr W got his way and steak it was!  The butcher had no fillet left by the time I got there so had to get a huge rib eye too...I am so hard done by ;)  I also had to get lamb shoulder for dinner instead of leg which really should teach me to get to the butchers earlier.  I was at the gym in the morning, a Tabata class and then a run on the treadmill, then an hour in the bath to recover :)

We were pretty busy in the afternoon, preparing the front lounge for painting and another tip run so by the time dinner came around I was starving.  I therefore plumped for pasta with a cream sauce to have with the steak, had to make it bearable for me ;)  We have some interesting Garufolo pasta which is like thick spirally spaghetti so I used that and made a sauce from hydrated porcini, fresh mushrooms, onions, garlic, armagnac and lashings of double cream. 

I did some chargrilled veg on the side and sliced the rib eye rather than serving it whole...bit easier with pasta.  It was lush, I am actually quite glad Mr W made me get steak :)

Mr W made us an amazing dessert too, lemon creme brulee made with Sicilian lemons.  Mmmmm.