For the carnivores

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day in Durban. It was with a sense of relief that I awoke at the crack of dawn to a stunning sunrise eclipsing my garden in a ray of orange glow. It made get excited about the forthcoming summer, the braai's, laughs and eating bonanza that will inevitably happen.

 To pay homage to this ever increasing feeling of euphoria I decided to make nicely seared porterhouse steak (Man were those steaks massive, that's the slight downside of buying age matured vacuum packed steaks, you don't realise the whopper of beef you just bought!), with a chimichurri sauce, creamy leaks with bacon and to top it all off, pink fir potatoes sauteed in butter.

I discovered pink fir potatoes in the veggie aisle at my local woolies. I love it when they put new produce in the aisles, it's similar to how fashionista's must feel when a new range comes out. These knobbly little potatoes are great because their skin is thin, so there really is no need to peel them, they are great sauteed or simply boil and tossed into a salad.

So moving on with the show here is my recipe for my tuesday night dinner

Pan fried steaks with chimichurri sauce, sauté potatoes and creamy leeks with bacon

Ingredients

Two porter house steaks

Salt and pepper

Olive oil

2 cups of parsley

4 cloves garlic

1 tablespoon of dried oregano

1 cup of olive oil

Zest of one lemon

3 tbsp of white wine vinegar

Salt and pepper

200g fir potatoes

Butter

Olive oil

Rosemary

4 rashers of bacon

5 leeks

a knobButter

dash of Cream

1. Let's start with the Chimichurri sauce. Simply put your parlsey, garlic, oregano, olive oil, lemon zest, vinegar, salt and pepper in a food processor and blitz. Easiest steak sauce ever!
2. Then take your potatoes, halve them and pop in them into a pot of salted water and parboil them for a couple minutes. Drain your potatoes, heat your butter and oil in a pan, then saute the potatoes and rosemary until they are gloriously golden.
3. Onto the creamy leeks.  Fry your bacon in a pan until crispy, drain on kitchen paper. In the same pan heat your butter, add the leeks until soft. Add your dash of cream, simmering for a few minutes, then add your bacon.
4. Now get your steaks, season liberally and oil the steaks not the pan. Heat your griddle pan to quite a high temperature. Sear your steaks, two minutes a side. Put the steaks in a roasting pan with a knob of butter on each, place in a 200 degree celcius oven for 7 minutes. Take out and rest.
5. Now put all your yummy components onto a plate & enjoy!