Okay, I have no idea how this popped into my head. I woke up yesterday morning and declared, "I've never made Beef Wellington. Today's the day." No idea if I had been dreaming about it...or how those two words surfaced in my mind. But I decided to do some reading and take a stab at it. I read four different recipes. Two had pâté; two didn't. One used mustard. All mentioned mushroom duxelles - what is that?!!? And all included prosciutto and puff pastry wrapped around a beef tenderloin. This is my own version, an amalgamation of Tyler Florence's Ultimate Beef Wellington , Chow.com's Classic Beef Wellington , BBC's Beef Wellington , and the version from Simply Recipes . Not sure this is anything close to what a traditional Beef Wellington is...but it was the perfect end to my 2014 Mothers' Day celebration. Ingredients puff pastry (mine was not homemade) beef tenderloin (mine was 2 pounds) duxelles (mushroom paste) prosciutto 1 t fre...
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