New recipes,December 28, 2011--A New Year!

These are the first dishes in a new year of preparing at least one new recipe a day!

Indian Spiced Carrot Soup with Ginger, and Fillet of Beef with Arugula, Cherry Tomato and Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette, both from Epicurious.
The soup is fabulous! For the salad, we used a top round steak (as different from fillet as you can get!) and yellow pear tomatoes from our garden that we had frozen. The meat was pretty chewy and the tomatoes mushy, though the flavors are good. Ah well--had to try!

Wine: Amethyst 2003 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon--this is fairly fruit forward, so if worker well with these dishes.