Cooking for Alan – Dinner #7 Splurge

April 2, 2018/in French/by Belinda Masters

When you decide you are ready to splurge, you pick Filet Mignon. You would think that this fork- tender cut of beef alone would be enough. But not for this Cooking for Alan Dinner #7 meal. Why not also make a decadent French inspired cream sauce to serve with it? And while you’re at it, pick a side dish of creamy parmesan polenta. Cream, butter, cheese, cognac, mushrooms and shallots are always a good combination.

So when you choose to splurge on special ingredients that would never make the “lighter fare” place on a menu, you need to let go of any concern about calorie count. Appreciate the fact that a “splurge dinner” doesn’t happen often…that’s why preparing it and consuming it is considered a splurge.

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Herbed Fromage Blanc with Crudite

Creamy Parmesan Polenta

Filet Mignon with a Creamy Mustard and Mushroom Sauce

Frozen Mocha Mousse with Fresh Whipped Cream

Filet Mignon with Parmesan Polenta

Our “splurge” main course of Filet Mignon and Polenta

While the cooked Filet Mignon rests, it’s time to prepare the sauce. Unlike Ina, I put the previously sautéed mushrooms in to the sauce at the end.

So when you are ready for a “splurge”, click here for Ina’s Filet Mignon recipe and click here to find her polenta recipe.

I hope that whoever you make this for will be as appreciative and complimentary as were Alan and our guests. Bon Appetit!

Stay tuned…my next post will feature the dessert course…FROZEN MOCHA CHOCOLATE MOUSSE.

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About Belinda Masters

After several years of posting my cooking and eating adventures on Facebook and with a lot of encouragement from my foodie friends, I took the plunge into blogging about one of my lifelong passions. I began helping in the kitchen when I was old enough to stand at the sink and rinse fresh vegetables from our garden.

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My mother is an excellent southern cook, having grown up in Tennessee. Without a doubt my fondest childhood memories are of she and I making home cooked meals every night for my father and four brothers. During my college days I would often cook Sunday suppers for my roommates. When I married, my new mother in law introduced me to an amazing array of different cuisines. She had collected hundreds of cookbooks over the years and told me that if you can read you can cook! During our first year of marriage (1985) my husband Alan and I decided to form our first Supper Club. Four couples would meet monthly for theme dinner parties. We’ve done just about every conceivable theme from a Hawaiian Luau to a reenactment of the final dinner served in First Class aboard the Titanic! I’m happy to say that we’re in our 35th year of supper club adventures. Couples may have come and gone, but my husband and I carry on. Besides all things food, my other passions are my family, faith, travel, gardening, tennis and enjoying my new semi-retired lifestyle. Now let’s get cooking!!!