Filet Mignon Topped with Bacon Wrapped Onion Ring and Blue Cheese

Filet Mignon Date Night tonight we went all out with our complete dinner on the grill. We did a reverse sear filet mignon topped with a bacon wrapped onion ring filled with blue cheese, hasselback potatoes and personal size smoked garlic with bacon and onion. To follow that up Patti made strawberry rhubarb crisp.  All with a “KISS of Smoke” with the sweet nutty flavor of pecan. You could say we had a full grill of Lodge cast iron tonight.

Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on our Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme.  Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…

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Filet Mignon Date Night
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minute (Meat Only)
Grill: Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill
Pellets: Green Mountain’s Texas Blend BBQ Pellets

Ingredients: Filet Mignon Date Night

• Filet Mignon
• bacon
• Onion Rings
• Uncle Bubba’s Steak Seasoning

Filet Mignon Date Night
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

Directions: Filet Mignon

We did a reverse sear on our steaks tonight, when you do this go by the meat temp and not by time. Here the outside temp on the patio around 100 degrees. Most times I’ll tell you to smoke it for 30 minutes or so, that’s not going to work here. The steaks went on at 42 degrees (5c) I.T. and the smoker was at 150* (66c). Normally I would bring these up to about 110* (44c) and pull them off the grill until it grill came to a searing heat.

But, tonight I am going to top them with a bacon wrapped onion ring filled with blue cheese. They wouldn’t be on long enough to melt the cheese. So, I needed a little more time in the heat so pull them at 100 degrees (38c) cover and set aside. You cook everything else at 350 degrees (177c) for about an hour. Then, put your steaks back on for 3 minutes, flip, add bacon ring, fill with cheese for about 6 minutes. Beautiful.

Flip and Top

Filet Mignon Topped with Bacon Wrapped Onion Ring Stuffed with Blue Cheese

Filet Mignon Date Night
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

Cooking Directions: Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill

Preheat your Grill Grates to 350* (177c).

We did a reverse sear on our steaks tonight, when you do this go by the meat temp and not by time. Here the outside temp on the patio around 100 degrees. Most times I’ll tell you to smoke it for 30 minutes or so, that’s not going to work here. The steaks went on at 42 degrees (5c) I.T. and the smoker was at 150* (66c). Normally I would bring these up to about 110* (44c) and pull them off the grill until it grill came to a searing heat.

But, tonight I am going to top them with a bacon wrapped onion ring filled with blue cheese. They wouldn’t be on long enough to melt the cheese. So, I needed a little more time in the heat so pull them at 100 degrees (38c) cover and set aside. You cook everything else at 350* (177c) for about an hour. As your sides are about done to taste put the steaks back on for a 5 minute sear perside with a quarter turn around  2 1/2 minutes for nice flavor bars, flip and top them, go for about 5 minutes depending on how you like your steak. (We like ours rare 120* or (48c). Beautiful.

When the meat reaches an internal temperature around 120* (48c) pull it off, cover it and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. U.S.D.A. safe is 125* (52c). Keep in mind that the meat will continue cooking for another 5 to 10 degrees after you pull it off the grill. I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.

Filet Mignon Date Night
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees (122c), anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Hasselback Potato

 

Filet Mignon Date Night
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe

About Our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….

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Ken & Patti

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