Good Steak for New Year's Eve

First of all Happy New Year to all! Let's made from 2013 our year.

It has been a few days since I had posted something. During our Christmas holidays we have been busy rebuilding our kitchen and finally, just before New Year's Eve, was kind of finished. I am so happy on how finally did turn out, soon this week I will take some picture to put here in my blog. Meanwhile, yesterday I made a fantastic meal again.

We wanted to eat something special but easy as well, so after looking into my books I found this recipe and it was absolutely delicious. From the book "Nigellisima" I prepared the Tagliata for two, but a bit changed to our own taste and for three instead of for two, with some rosemary baked potatoes and self made All i Oli!

The ingredients you need for the steak:

• 2 Sirloin Steak (about 200 gr. each) from very good quality. (Not cheap though).
• Dried oregano
• Extra Vierge Olive Oil
• Chili flakes
• Sea salt and pepper
• Red vinegar
• 300 gr cherry tomatoes cut in half
• Rocket leafs and parsley

In a bowl mix the oregano, some oil, the chili flakes, sea salt, pepper and red vinegar to prepare the marinade. Heat a grill pan or steel pan very hot. Then sprinkle some oil in the steaks and bake about 3 minutes per side. Take the steaks from the pan and let marinade about 5 minutes per side. After that cut the steak into slices, put the tomatoes into the marinade and mix well. 

Then as side dish you can have rosemary baked potatoes. Just take good potatoes, wash them, no need to peal, cut them in quarters. Bake in some olive oil for about 15 minutes. Put in a baking dish with some sea salt and fresh rosemary into a 180 degrees preheated oven for about 30 minutes. 

I also made All i Oli, it is simple and much better that the one you buy in the shop. You just need one or two garlic cloves, 1 free range fresh egg, a slice of bread without crust soaked a bit in vinegar, salt and extra verge olive oil. Put all the ingredients in a blender and add slowly the oil. Add some oil as All i Oli you want, more oil means more sauce.

Serve all together, like in the picture below, with some bread and a good red wine. We had a fantastic dinner!