In Sainsbury's today and utterly bored by eating chicken or similar over christmas and sought something more tasty. Thanks to Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson (amazon.co.uk links to prefered books).
We found and created something rather tasty and cheap too.
Take the following
Jamie Oliver's 21 day old minute steaks 250g or so for two people
4 big mushrooms per person
one baguette
a couple of fat cloves of garlic
some butter
some olive oil
some rosemary from the garden
salt
pepper
Put the oven on, about 200 or gas mark 6, then chop up both cloves of garlic. Take your mushrooms and break out the stalks and spread about half the garlic, plus some salt and pepper and a bit of butter in each one. Put them in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Now take the rosemary and chop it finely and put it on a plate with a splash of olive oil and some salt (sea salt crystals if you have them) and some pepper. You will put the steak in this marinade, in the packet there are four steaks, put one on the oil and then take it out and turn it over and place another bit on the oily side, turn over again so that you are alternating steak against fresh oil from the marinade and the other side against already oiled steak. This process makes the marinade go further and means that there will be less oil to burn. Put a griddle pan on a high heat now, then do the last bit of prep now, take the rest of the garlic and mix it with a small lump of butter in a small bowl, use a knife to fold the garlic into the butter.
You now should have the mushrooms with about 8 minutes to go or so, and a hot griddle pan, start to cook the steak, but first put a plate in the oven to warm up. The steak will take 40-60 seconds per side, so you'll need to work quickly, the steak is ready when the blood and juices start to rise off the surface of the meat. If you do not get nice parallel lines on the cooked side then your pan is not hot enough, likewise if you are getting lots of smoke, then it is probably a bit hot.
It should take 6-7 minutes to cook all the steak, putting each bit on the warmed plate to rest after cooking. Butter the split baguette with the garlic butter and get the mushrooms out of the oven, put the mushrooms and the steak into the sandwich, you can cut it into strips which makes it easier to eat.
Enjoy with a glass of wine... or two.
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