Remember that wild saffron I said that father Fitz got me in morocco ? Well it arrived from Amsterdam in great shape!! And also some great smelling ras al hanout.. So that shaped supper .. The cous cous is scary… Read More ›
Month: November 2014
Low and slow duck chinese-esque?
Finger food for supper.. And what better than duck wrapped in chinese pancakes with green onion and cucumber.. Just why does that work so well? Who invented that flavour combo? I think they deserve a great big hat for that….. Read More ›
Italian P&B burgers & dog chicken chow mein
This was lunch today.. I write it like that as it was a mighty fine lunch.. Italian P&B? Pork an Beef minced.. With fantastic Italian herb mix from Amsterdam .. Probably the best smuggled in ‘ herbs’ ever … Ahem…… Read More ›
Twice baked karate chop Italian spuds
It’s definitely the weather for baked potatoes.. The mornings are now frosty and misty.. There is a damp in the air and it’s squelchy underfoot! That calls for food hugs.. One of the best simple pleasures I reckon is the… Read More ›
Hanger steak wraps & sabzi pollo herby puffys
That steak just lasted and lasted.. A superb purchase!! (One more bit to go after this!! ).. (That was just a reminder for ya!..).. So what next to turn it into? Wraps.. Well wrong language really.. What would you call… Read More ›
Left over fava bean lamb with cous cous
Had some of those chops left over. That’s the good thing about cooking just the little extra when can.. Inspired by Father Fitz’s recent trip to morocco .. Am thinking a cous Cousy number.. (Although it turned into more of… Read More ›
Middle bacon sarnies
Sometimes a bacon sandwich is just the ticket! A few things though.. No snotty bacon please!! Fresh French unsalted butter and I leave the always argued condiment choice to you.. Personally it’s red for us.. This bacon is awesome!! Middle… Read More ›
Steaks & Chops & Padron peppers
Steak and chops for supper… Yeah! The chops? Lamb.. Great deal on lamb at the moment in the UK.. I heartily suggest buying it and enjoying it , you could always freeze some too.. Although why not just hook yourself… Read More ›
Easy beef bourguignon & panko roasties + sheesh kebab chigwell
Many fine recipes for beef bourguignon .. That classic dinner party dish.. The make life easy yet everyone thinks it was complicated dinner party dish.. Marinating the meat in wine for 24 hrs..adding boiled pork rinds scraped.. Lardons, those tincy… Read More ›
A guest post? Kinda!
I don’t really do guest posts.. Of course I welcome guests to my virtual rumblings.. Yet this one is slightly different.. Father Fitz has at last been enjoying the joys of Morocco .. Am very pleased that he has.. I… Read More ›
Mrs Fitz lamb stew..
With the travel over for a couple of weeks it’s nice to reset the body clock properly.. The cold weather has definitely appeared, which is quite nice as you get to wear your cold weather articles.. Seeking the scarves and… Read More ›
Quick Barcelona round up!
Righty… A quick trip out to Barcelona for work porpoises .. Starting with a stay and meal at the Mondrian in Londons south bank.. It’s the old shipping containers, ( not literally, that’s the name of the building!).. It’s very… Read More ›
You can’t beat a bit of bubble
Bubble and squeak… Yeah.. That super treat made by over cooking a previous dish.. Bubble is great! There are so many variations and option for a bit of bubble.. This was breakfasts.. Sprouts and roasties.. Chopped up with a roscoff… Read More ›
Peppercorn fillet with sprouts & inca bella roasties
Last of that fillet steak need eating… What a wonderful purchase of a great bit of beast.. Perfect for rolling in very strong pepper .. Umm a little too strong.. Simply cooked in lurpack cooking butter.. The inca bella potatoes… Read More ›
Who doesn’t like chicken wings?
Ok.. Put your hands down if you are vegetarian ( a ‘real’ one not the kind that thinks fish, chicken and sheep guts (cheese) are ok to eat..).. Or a vegan.. Or simply someone who doesn’t like good fried chicken….. Read More ›
Chinese supper for one.
With Mrs Fitz over in the Emerald Isle it’s supper for one.. Chinese .. Dish one: Chow mein – plain.. Roscoff onion. , Chinese garlic & ginger, shredded carrot .. All cooked in chilli oil diluted with sunflower oil.. Beansprouts… Read More ›
Spatchcock pouissin & inca bellas
Chicken and veg.. Meat and potatoes .. Simple honest eating.. Ok.. ‘Poshed’up a bit by having the pouissins.. Yet they were red ticket items ! Simply taken out of the packet.. Straight onto the oven bars.. Above the wonderful (… Read More ›
Pains perdu.. & dim sum
First the dim sum .. Bought from waitrose.. Mrs Fitz loves dim sum.. Any good? With loads of dressings .. Nah.. Nopey dope dope nope.. Ahh well I know not to ge them again .. Mind you the complex packaging… Read More ›
Red ticket fillet
Wasn’t planning on having steak again for supper.. Yet with this red ticket special on a fantastic piece of Hereford beef fillet it just couldn’t be missed! Reduced from £43 per kilo to £12!!! Now that’s a saving!! So you… Read More ›
Steak & spuds
(The lead picture is not the steak we are having.. Just to let you know!! ) Sometimes all you want fur supper is something easy peasey.. (Not japaneasey..).. Steak .. Mrs Fitz loves steak.. I quite like it too.. I… Read More ›
Mr Fitz ‘carnitas’.. Home again
I have arrived back home.. It’s been a long one this trip.. It feels long.. The journey through the hills back into Mexico City was interesting.. A slight possible altercation with some ranchero narco .. We were driving.. On a… Read More ›
Weird beer cocktail
Forgot to share this with you .. Dressing bizarre this drink.. Had it at the thermal baths with a pal.. It’s wrong it’s not big not clever.. Trust me. First the chap rolls the edge of the cup in gloopy… Read More ›
Restaurant & hotel MATEA ixtapan
This is a great place.. And just right for my last meals in the state of Mexico.. The chef is cool and his team great.. They have a kitchen and surroundings to kill for! The food was very good.. Mexican… Read More ›
Hotel Matea Inn somewhere in the state of Mexico!
I have to admit to not being one hundred percent sure of actually where I am right now.. It’s not the tequila as am kinda off the pop for now. More that it’s been a long day.. First a meeting… Read More ›
Ixtapan breakfast
Rightyhoo.. Here I am in ixtapan .. 2800 metres above sea level .. Ok that’s Toluca .. Yet I am not that far away.. It is great to finally get fresh air although it hurts your head.. Do I get… Read More ›
It’s not the leaving of Mexico City that grieves me..
Moving in out of the city.. By bye Mexico City for now.. Looking forward to getting some fresh air! My nozzle feels like it’s done a whole box of ‘wolf of wall street’ donuts!! So for the last breakfast I… Read More ›
Mexico City eating.. I need to cook..
I’m getting the ‘haven’t cooked for while’ itch.. Even maybe it’s becoming a scratch… Annoying.. The food is also starting to grate me a little… I gotta refocus.. A good lunch though .. Made a nice break in the working… Read More ›
Tacos & protests.. Mexico City #43
Ok! Had to get over that steak supper.. Luckily lunch was provided at work.. Now we are changing through the gears..( umm not on the roads in Mexico city though!!).. Sheeshola! Lunch was tacos topped with alfalfa ( other toppings… Read More ›
Stoopid price steak .. & breakfast ‘tapas’ ..
Maybe that should have been the other way around? Let’s start with breakfast.. I love the juices available here in Mexico City.. So fresh .. This was carrot , with lemon.. and the tapas ? A sugar ring of course!!… Read More ›
Off cuts of mass wafers.. A one armed nun. & montezumas hat
I have never seen this before in my life.. (Well lots really!!).. Yet this one took the… You know those ‘biscuits’ you get for mass? Well this church of our lady of Guadeloupe sells the off cuts!! These are the… Read More ›
Walking around Mexico City & chicharones tacos..
Did I sleep well? Not really .. Strange room syndrome meets timezone shifts.. You would think I would be used to it by now yet it still hurts a little! Breakfast was a weird one.. The smog was high.. Yet… Read More ›
First meal in Mexico City
After a long long flight to Mexico City.. In which I ate all my home packed foodstuffs.. Plus a child meal .. ( good tip that one in long haul.. Kids meals consist of lots of more interesting things than… Read More ›
Savoury ‘French toast’
Is there actually anything French about his ? I have never had it amongst all my times in France ?? Yet the soaking of good bread into great eggs with a slight seasoning of French herbs is the bizz-ness.. Trust… Read More ›
Wholemeal puffys & sprouts & keema
These puffys are my new best friend.. They are so light and flavoursome.. Mrs Fitz is loving them too! This outing was a wholemeal affair.. Strong Canadian wholemeal flour.. (A little plain to lighten the load..).. Yeast , salt, and… Read More ›
The ultimate roast potatoes? Inca bella
So I ‘found’ these new .. Well new to us potatoes in waitrose.. They claim to be the ultimate roast potato.. Big claim.. We like spuds… Peruvian these I think.. They were also on a red ticket.. So that’s cool….. Read More ›
Salt beef hash & middle bacon breakfast..
After eating that very rich food and drinking very fine French wines.. An honest simple breakfast was required.. What better than some of that lovely salt beef hash. With the last of that amazing middle bacon? All fried up in… Read More ›
L’atalier des chefs.. Fois gras sliders
I was very proud to be invited to attend a competition of sorts by my friends .. It was held at l’atalier des chefs in London. A nice crowd of people in attendance .. I have never been inside a… Read More ›
Cooking with Mr Fitz 