Good accompaniments

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My girlfriend made me dinner the other night. It was a nice bit of fillet steak but what got me was the rest of it. There was a rice and feta stuffed tomato, but the rest consisted of:

Fresh baby spinach leaves with some diced and baked cubes of sweet potato, feta cheese, pine nuts and drizzled with a little caramelised balsamic vinegar.

Try it, it rocks.

What are your good alternative/salad accompaniments to standard meat dish?

[Parsnip]

Its a bit council house, but I quite like a fried egg done in the pan the steak was cooked in. Leave it till the steak is eaten, then mop up the steak juice and eat the egg with a bit of bread - delicious - you end upp with kind of a meat flavoured fried egg sandwich.

[zakelwe]

Fillet steak is quite small so I might add a lamb chop as well. Perhaps also a cumberland sausage and a pork chop. Also a home made burger as well and a chicken breast. Couple of fried eggs, chips, mushrooms and peas to garnish.

I think I will name my invention the combined grill. Yummy.

Regards
Andy

[PaulHogan]

zakelwe said:

Fillet steak is quite small so I might add a lamb chop as well. Perhaps also a cumberland sausage and a pork chop. Also a home made burger as well and a chicken breast. Couple of fried eggs, chips, mushrooms and peas to garnish.

I think I will name my invention the combined grill. Yummy.

Regards
Andy

This. Perhaps with onion rings too.

[captainzep]

thegavster said:

I noticed on Saturday kitchen they did the veg in the 'Vichy' style, which is just cooked with butter and maybe a pinch of sugar as well.

Very simple, no more tricky than boiling veg but no doubt far, far tastier.

That made me think of a dish called Salmagundi I had in a restaurant recently.

If you google it you'll find very grand centuries old recipes involving cooked meat and salad, veg, fruit, nuts and herbs.

But the dish I had was a simpler mixture of salad leaves, still-warm tender baby vegetables, home cured ham, fresh herbs, and a poached duck egg. It was buttery and well seasoned but still very clean tasting.

[TIGA84]

thegavster said:

I noticed on Saturday kitchen they did the veg in the 'Vichy' style, which is just cooked with butter and maybe a pinch of sugar as well.

Very simple, no more tricky than boiling veg but no doubt far, far tastier.

and a little water, hence the Vichy (local water, might even be seawater I think) style, butter and water emulsify to give the effect.

[OnTheOverrun]

zakelwe said:

Fillet steak is quite small so I might add a lamb chop as well. Perhaps also a cumberland sausage and a pork chop. Also a home made burger as well and a chicken breast. Couple of fried eggs, chips, mushrooms and peas to garnish.

I think I will name my invention the combined grill. Yummy.

Regards
Andy

What time should I arrive?

[grumbledoak]

I get good steak so rarely that I tend to favour the classics - french fries with optional mayonaisse, and maybe a little circle of garlic or blue cheese butter on the steak.

[Kermit power]

TIGA84 said:

thegavster said:

I noticed on Saturday kitchen they did the veg in the 'Vichy' style, which is just cooked with butter and maybe a pinch of sugar as well.

Very simple, no more tricky than boiling veg but no doubt far, far tastier.

and a little water, hence the Vichy (local water, might even be seawater I think) style, butter and water emulsify to give the effect.

Oh thanks! you just go ahead and ruin my mental image of carrots dressed in jackboots, collaborating their little hearts out to keep in the sauerkraut's good books with your rational explanations, why don't you!

[kiteless]

grumbledoak said:

I get good steak so rarely that I tend to favour the classics - french fries with optional mayonaisse, and maybe a little circle of garlic or blue cheese butter on the steak.

Couldn't agree more. Sometimes a good steak needs little. The best I've sampled recently was a rib-eye with a blue cheese glaze (not a sauce, just the thinnest of coatings on top), and I rarely order steak in a restaurant.

[bazking69]

At the moment I am quite into frying some bacon lardons off in a dab of butter and wilting some thinly sliced cabbage in there for a few minutes.
Very tasty, very quick, very easy, and goes well on the side with most meats.

Unless it is doused in gravy or sauce, I take little pleasure in eating plain boiled veg tbh.

[convert]

bazking69 said:

At the moment I am quite into frying some bacon lardons off in a dab of butter and wilting some thinly sliced cabbage in there for a few minutes.
Very tasty, very quick, very easy, and goes well on the side with most meats.

Unless it is doused in gravy or sauce, I take little pleasure in eating plain boiled veg tbh.

I also do this, but add a few red onions, fried with a little balsamic vinegar.

[jmorgan]

Whole bag of spinach and a suitable quantity of baby tomatoes and onions. Chuck in a load of pine nuts and cook off in a closed saucepan with olive oil. Usually get the onions going first then add the rest.