Tomatoes with Bacon Au Gratin, a Silver Spoon revelation, this recipe is one of my favorites so far! Wednesday, I had the day off from work due to a snow storm that never arrived. I decided to try one of the more time consuming recipes for dinner that day. To start Tomatoes with Bacon Au Gratin, I scooped out several tomatoes so that they were hollow shells, salted them and turned them upside down. The tomatoes are supposed to drain for an hour so I left them draining and took off to the grocery store.
When I got back it was just about time to flip them over. I added bacon, mushrooms and onions to a pan and sauteed them for a few minutes. I then added thyme and parsley and cooked for a few minutes more. I then removed the pan from the stove and stirred in a beaten egg. I greased a small oven safe pan and filled each tomato with the bacon mixture and sprinkled with a scant amount of bread crumbs. I popped them in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes and turned my attention to making Salted T-Bone Steak in Sauce.
Silver Spoon instructed me to generously butter a 5 pound T bone steak. Of course I complied. Then I fried the steak for two minutes on each side and put the steak in the oven at 400 degrees. While the steak was cooking I made the sauce. I added six shallots and butter to a pan and cooked it down and then added some wine. Once it evaporated I removed the pan from heat and added two egg yolks, parsley and white wine vinegar. This is where I should have had sauce, but instead I just had sticky shallots. This concoction is best described as a steak topping.
After 15 minutes, I took the steak out of the oven and added my steak topping. The steak was well done, we are more medium rare people. Next time I will cook the steak for 8 or so minutes. Thankfully, I served the steak with the tomatoes and nobody really complained. The tomatoes tasted just like a tender BLT with the lettuce upgraded to mushroom. I really suggest this recipe to anyone who likes the classic combo of tomatoes and bacon.
Ah, I am finally caught up. I have been so busy cooking that I haven't had time to do the writing part of this project.
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