Steak

The ultimate part: the main course!

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   Get the best bit of steak you can - one each, obviously - and marinate it in peppery olive oil for a few hours beforehand.

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   Make sure you turn the steak over at least once because you will fry the steak 'dry' so both sides need to absorb some oil.

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   When you are ready to cook the steak, heat a frying pan big enough to take however many steaks you have.

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   You don't have to put any oil in, and you'll know when the pan is hot enough if you splash a little water into it and it boils away almost instantly.

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   I like my steak rare, so I just slap it into the pan quickly to seal both sides.

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   Then give it a minute or so longer with a splash of red wine in the pan with it, to create a bit of a sauce.

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   Trial and error is the best way to work out how you like yours.

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   I usually have some simple new potatoes with it, but at the 'clincher' dinner I also did some veggies in a bit of white wine.

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   I chopped up some leeks, onions and courgettes (so the pieces of leek and courgette were roughly equal-sized).

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    Put them into a saucepan with a little bit of olive oil (already hot) to just soften them up a bit.

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    Then I added a little white wine and put the lid on the pan so the veggies sort of steamed in the wine.

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    You've added the right amount of wine if it's almost all disappeared by the time the veggies are cooked.

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    The 'impressive' bit is the frying of the steak - the oiled steak in the dry pan makes a great noise, lots of smoke and smells delicious!