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.

Tuscan Tuna Salad

Ingredients:

800 g white beans
185 g tuna
2 chopped tomatoes
1 chopped onion
1 garlic clove minced
2 tbsp chopped parsley
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp honey

Preparing:

Mix the beans with onion, parsley, tuna and tomato.
Mix well olive oil with the lemon juice, honey and garlic.
Bathe salad with dressing.

Strawberry and Asparagus Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup strawberries
1 bunch asparagus, cooked
1 lettuce
4 tbsp pistachio
1 tbsp fennel

Dressing:
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp mustard
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Mix all ingredients of the salad.
Combine the ingredients of the vinaigrette.
Bathe with this the salad.