Steak with Bearnaise

This is from the East Side Story episode of Beverly Hills 90210... It is a variation on Ina Garten's recipe.

Ingredients:
Steak (We had 2 ribeyes)
Dried Tarragon
Fresh Tarragon
2 sticks of butter
Lemon
3 egg yolks
champagne vinegar
Salt
Pepper

For the bearnaise, set up a double burner and egg, 1/4 cup of vinegar, egg yolks, salt and some dried tarragon. Whisk and slowly add pats of butter to the mixture.  If it gets to hot, just remove from the double burner until it cools, but continue whisking and the return to the burner.  If it starts to curdle place in ice water.  When all butter is mixed in, add 2 tablespoons lemon juice and chopped fresh tarragon.

For the steaks, it's best to ask butcher how to cook, as we did.  In this case we salted then browned each side in butter in a frying pan and then placed them in a 375 degree oven for a few minutes to get medium rare steaks.  Different size steaks will vary though.