4 wellingtons duxelles Recipes

beef filets, duxelle, unsalted butter, shallot, minced, madeira wine, wild mushrooms, chopped fine (you can even use just plain white mushrooms), leaves from 2 sprigs of fresh thyme, chopped, kosher salt and white pepper to taste, de foie gras (available at specialty foods shops) at room temperature, sheet thawed frozen puff pastry, an egg wash made by beating 1 large egg yolk with 1 tsp of water, madeira wine sauce, madeira, beef stock (i use more than gourmet brand classic french demi-glace), black truffle butter (available at specialty food shops) if you can tsp find it, just use black truffle oil mixed with butter

thickly cut filet mignons, salt, freshly ground black pepper, olive oil, goose or duck liver, or pork country-style pate, half (17 1/4-oz package) frozen puff pastry (1 sheet), thawed, mushroom duxelles , recipe follows, egg beaten with 2 tsp water to make an egg wash, unsalted butter, minced shallots, minced garlic, button mushrooms , wiped clean, stemmed, and finely chopped, salt, freshly ground white pepper, dry white wine

olive oil, lamb backstraps, butter, mixed mushrooms (small button thinly sliced ), baby spinach, sheets puff pastry (frozen thaw in the fridge), dijon mustard, egg (lightly beaten ), potatoes (desiree finely chopped), sweet potato (small orange kumara peeled finely chopped), garlic cloves (thinly sliced ), onion (large halved thinly sliced ), olive oil (1/4 cup), pine nuts (1/2 cup toasted ), thyme leaves (finely chopped )