Lemon Fish with Almond Cream for Valentines Day

Ingredients:

6 fish fillets, of your choice
1 cup cream
¼ cup milk
¼ cup chopped almonds
100 g grated Parmesan cheese
2 lemons, sliced
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Place lemon slices in a greased refractory.
Place fillets on top, season with salt and pepper and bathe with oil.
Bake for 10 minutes.

Remove from heat and remove lemon slices.
Blend the almonds with the cream, milk and Parmesan cheese until get a homogeneous mixture.
Bathe fillets with almond cream and serve.

Rice with Mushrooms for Saint Valentines

Ingredients:

1 liter of chicken broth
1 ½ cups rice
½ kg mushrooms, cut into strips
½ stick butter
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 tsp ground ginger
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Cook rice with chicken broth, salt and ginger.

Fry the onion in butter.
Add the celery and when soft add the mushrooms.
Season it with salt and pepper.
Add the rice, stir and serve.

Saint Valentine’s Tenderloin with Pears and Malbec Honey

Ingredients:

4 medallions of beef tenderloin
3 ripe pears, thinly sliced
½ t Malbec wine
1 carrot, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ onion, cut into strips
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp honey
1 tsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Fry the onion, garlic and carrot in olive oil for 5 minutes. .
Transfer to a bowl and reserve.
Brown spiced medallions in the same skillet on both sides.
Bake medallions for 10 minutes.

Return vegetables to skillet and add Malbec wine.
Add the balsamic vinegar, honey and butter when the wine has been reduced to a third par, and whisk well.
Add pears and wait about 3 minutes.
Strain the sauce, add salt and pepper and reserve the pears.

Serve the medallions, bathe with the sauce and accompanied by pears.