Thursday Dinner

Braved the village rush hour to finally go get supplies, or as Darling puts it, go hunt and gather, sometimes that is exactly how it feels, brave the forces of evil, manic drivers wanting to get from here to there in less time than it actually takes.

Anyway, on to tonights dinner, another Donna Hay inspired little feast, after the past few, well alright, more than a few, nights of quick dinners did a Sirloin Steak with a balsamic tomato pan sauce.
The potatoes were to be chats, steamed and rolled in parsley and olive oil but not a chat in sight at the fruiterers, so settled for some sebago potatoes, chunked, steamed and then the parsley oil drizzled over, it immediately soaked into the potatoes, so drizzled a little of the sauce from the tomatoes over them as well.
And this is how I did it:
half a punnet of cherry tomatoes, (approx 125grms) sliced into halves into a bowl, added a couple of young sprigs of thyme, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of butter, put to one side until needed.
2 small handfuls of baby english spinach leaves, washed, dried and picked over.
1 tablespoon finely chopped Parsley mixed with 1 tablespoon olive oil, this is more than needed but its hard to do less in a processor.
top and tail 2 serves of green beans, steam
steam chats or in this case a chunked sebago, sprinkled with salt.
Heat pan and cook 2 sirloin steaks until almost done, salting one side after turning, this only takes a few mins, then add the tomatoes, oil,butter and thyme, cook till tomatoes are beginning to soften and steak is done to your liking, the thyme leaves will fall from the stalks in the cooking.
Place a handful of spinach on each plate, place steak on top, the heat of the steak and the juices wilts the spinach.
Spoon the tomato sauce, sans thyme stalks, over the steak and plate the other vegetables to the side.
Pour a glass of something red and delicious and Enjoy!