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Leek & Porcini Hodgepodge

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Leek & Porcini Hodgepodge Filet of beef is probably a more accurate title but I thought it was too long. Hodgepodge is a great name because it describes this dish perfectly. This dish has the butt and tail end of the beef tenderloin as an ingredient. This cut of meat is certainly not a requirement for this recipe but I had it so what the heck. I decided to make this dish out of necessity. I had broken down a beef tenderloin to make a special  Salame  which only required the center cut  section. The butt and tail end were left over and I decided to use them to make something worthy.  From the picture above you can distinguish the different sections of the Tenderloin.  Another component to  my fabulous Hodgepodge is  the addition of my  Lamb Prosciutto .  Without this ingredient this dish would have only been delicious and not exquisite. These were the ends of the Prosciutto that were not sliced up.  One of the first things I did was to re-hydrate my 3 oun