Steak au Poivre w/cognac sauce

Pepper Monkey BBQ

Grabbed a beef loin from restaurant depot yesterday and cut it up into 2" thick steaks. Put a home made coffe/pepper rub on them ... smoked with mesquite at 220 deg for about 15 minutes. This got them to 95 degrees, pulled and let rest while I heated up a cast iron skillet for final searing. Then made a cognac/cream sauce to put over the top

While all this happened in the small, in the large we were roasting fingerling potatoes with a very large handful of bay leaves piled on top. Saw it on the food network one day and couldn't resist seeing how they came out. It was unique and good, certainly worth trying!


Smoking to get some mesquite flavor into the meat.


Pan sear to get a good texture on the outside and finish the cook to medium rare.


Flambe the cognac sauce


Potatoes with what seemed like a ton of bay leaves.


After roasting until fork tender, we tossed the potatoes in some rendered fat left over from trimming the beef loin. Made for nice crispy potato skin.


Plated

Big Knife

That looks fantastic! How did the taters come out?

Fluffyb

Steak & sauce looks great. I'm curious about the potatoes. How was the flavor?

Pepper Monkey BBQ

The potatoes came out really good. They had a unique flavor and it penetrated all the way through. We realized as we were eating them that since we cooked them in a CI Dutch Oven that there was also some flavor coming from that. So we are going to try them again in a glass dish or crock pot to see how they taste with no other flavor influence ... but overall, they are good!

Joel

Mickey

How did you do the cognac/cream sauce ?

Grillin & Chillin

Nice presentation! Looks good

chrisnjenn

I would like the sauce recipe also. Thanks.

rsmdale

Great looking meal,did some fingerlings this weekend and love the flavor!!



GOOD EATS AND GOOD FRIENDS



DALE

Pepper Monkey BBQ

Cognac sauce came from Alton Brown ... http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/steak-au-poivre-recipe/index.html

Didn't modify it too much. We weren't real big fans of the sauce ... I've seen a few recipes with less cream that we may try next time ... but overall it was a good experiment.

Joel

BobS

WOW! Simply fantastic!