Alder smoked ribeye with SWMBO's signature Madeira and mushroom sauce

Stormbringer

Christmas Eve is a time when we have a go to meal that we both love, and a cracking wine to go with it. This year it was a thick ribeye steak, rubbed with a 50:50 Dizzy Pig Cow Lick and Redeye Express, reverse seared over alder and served with my wife's fantastic Madeira and mushroom steak sauce (recipe linked below). We enjoyed this with a 2001 Ch. Sociando Mallet, which is just entering its drinking window. So merry Christmas folks!

https://thecooksdigest.co.uk/2017/09/29/madeira-and-mushroom-steak-sauce/

Searing in the MMX with the spider getting the steak very close to the coals:


Ready to carve ... and carved:




Without and with the sauce:




Thanks for looking!

ApexPredator

Wow that looks excellent! Enjoy!

bgebrent

Outstanding cook and wine pairing.  A personal fan of the husband-wife team approach.  Happy holidays.

smokingal

A meal fit for royalty.  Nice work.

Botch

Damn that looks good; thanks for posting the mushroom/Madeira recipe!  

g8golfer

Great cook 

lousubcap

To steal a line from my favorite Christmas movie "I said, Godda-n, Godda-n."  That is a great cook right there.  Nailed the finish.  Congrats.

Merry Christmas. 

Stormbringer

Thanks, folks. @bgebrent I think Sociando Mallet is a smart buy is all but the best vintages. The only reason I don't buy it in years popularised by the critics is the corresponding hike in price tag. The winery makes very good wines year on year, the 1997 was/is superb. The 2012 is still available at the en primeur price. I'll be getting a case of that to stash away.