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 ›
Cows
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Pressed salt beef hash
This pressed salt beef is the business.. I mean like seriously the business! Made to an old navy recipe by my pals at earls barton.. It is the best cross between tinned corned beef , ‘premium’ sliced corned beef.. Superb… Read More ›
Leftover Chimchurri steak tacos
With some of that delicious and now really pungent Chimchurri marinated flap steak needing eating .. It had to be snuggled up with a few buddies in a soft flatbread… The bread? Plain flour 250 grms Teaspoon salt Pinch sugar… Read More ›
Flap steak Chimchurri of sorts
A pal of mine went over to see the fabulous butchers in Earls Barton.. & picked me up that wonderful cut that is do hard to find unless you either: A: Keep a cow in your place B: Get a… Read More ›
Bone marrow & truffle butter sirloins with no-hassleback potatoes
Does that title grab your attention? It does mine!! This is such a satisfying supper.. Ticks all the smiley boxes.. In our kitchen anyways!! Let’s start with the no hassle hasslebacks.. I would have Prefered to use bigger spuds yet… Read More ›
Are these empanadas? OX CHEEKS!!
I reckon so.. Maybe.. Well .. Hmmm .. YES! I declare they are.. A Mr Fitz Empanada.. So what’s the steps? .. Ok… This takes a while so do grab a drink.. Light a smoke.. Fluff up your pillows.. First… Read More ›
Malaga meat feasting
Wow what a lovely sunny day here in Malaga , estapona.. Great hotel the hotel kempinski Marbella .. A super day spent in the sun listening to the sea like twenty metres away.. Under the palm trees with no fear… Read More ›
Crispy chilli beef , mushroom chow mein
You know I love this dish.. Like really love it.. And I just have to say that this one came out the business! First a red ticket sirloin steak .. Cut into thin strips .. Dusted in seasoned cornflour ….. Read More ›
Hunters beef
I have no gooey eyed deers as to why this is called hunters beef.. Am pretty sure someone can tell me! Yet that’s what it says in the packet.. So that’s what it is. .. One kilo of very fine… Read More ›
Cott-herds pie?
Cott -herds pie ? Huh? Ok let’s try it this way around lam-tage pie? You there yet? Some help? Well seeing as shepherds pie is lamb based and cottage pie is beef based this is a hybrid.. Why? First off… Read More ›
Crispy chilli beef chow mein
I love crispy chilli beef.. It is my ‘test’ for a Chinese take-away.. It’s gotta be right.. Not all clumped together like some sugary chewy beef bhaji.. Although writing that has got me thinking.. Hmmmm ! The beef is cut… Read More ›
No cheese truly non-authentic lasagna..
Sometimes a slice of lasagne with crusty store bought garlic baguette is just what you need for supper.. Particularly as the evenings really are starting to ‘draw-in’.. I quite like making lasagne .. Don’t know why.. This is probably the… Read More ›
Curry mince & sausage rolls
After a lengthy conversation with my attorney yesterday about various supper options .. I actually rang in the first place to get his new chilli recipe that I hear is quite the number.. Not enough time to make the cowboy… Read More ›
A mezze of sorts
We needed to put some sunshine food back on our table.. what better than a selection of lovely bits and pieces? Of All kinds! Sitting comfortably? Then let’s begin.. Starting with a carrot dish..Zrodiya bel kemoun (recipe by my virtual… Read More ›
McMrFitz breakfast bun
Loosely based on that clowns breakfast offering.. Loosely indeed.. Taking the fine Italian sausages.. Turning them into breakfast patties by simply taking them outta the lamb casings.. After all that trouble of getting the darn things stuffed in the first… Read More ›
Six meats burger yup six meats
Six meats burger? Is this some sort of new chain? Umm no… It was my supper This burger may be seen by some as wrong.. Mrs Fitz tutted for sure..I tell you that in advance ok? Ready? Are you sure?… Read More ›
Homemade beet burgers & prudys chips
Ok.. I reckon you may have read that headline and thought “what?” Mr Fitz is making veggie burger?? Well relax my virtual pals .. It’s cool.. It began like this… I fancied making burgers for supper .. Inspired by my… Read More ›
No cheese lasagne – easy supper
Well we are back from an emotional roller coaster in Eire.. Wiped out it’s an easy yet comforting supper required.. Lasagne .. That favourite of that cat.. No cheese version here .. Not dairy free due to the white sauce… Read More ›
Bull & Mcabe plus fishermans catch
After leaving Kinsale and that lovely hock behind.. A quick pit stop at the fishermans catch in Kinsale.. It’s just on the edge if town and is a van.. Been their years am told.. Had to try it out.. And… Read More ›
Sunday breakfast meat treat
Sunday breakfasts should indeed be special .. Like a lazy comforting number.. These days seeing as you don’t even need to get even a little dressed to go fetch the papers .. I figure that gives you more time to… Read More ›
Laab Thailand eatings .. British rose veal
We don’t often have thai food, firstly because there isn’t really any good Thai restaurants round our way.. And also I’m must admit to not knowing that much more than lots of soupy noodles and seafoods.. Plus of course a… Read More ›
Crab linguine. & pressed beef supper
Sounds like a weird combo? It’s not ! It’s two different dishes.. Of course the crab is for Mrs Fitz. (Epic she said!).. Cornish brown crab.. Hopefully no Shelley bits.. With an Italian frozen fridge staple of Italian mixed herbs….. Read More ›
Middle eastern feasting
After all that making of baba ghanoush , tabbouleh , fattoush, and a fougasse .. It’s time to eat! What a spread!! Yet wait… Hold the page!!… Where’s the meats? Aha I gotcha ! I picked up some fantastic Turkish… Read More ›
Chinese crispy beef with chow mein
I love owning this lump of sirloin I have had for over a week now I the fridge.. Just sat there.. Ageing away, uncovered of course! It means I can just merrily hack away at it whenever I want steak….. Read More ›
Sweet ‘ol cottage pie
Sometimes you just need a giant food hug .. The kind that makes you know the world isn’t so bad and that things will be ok.. This cottage pie falls straight into that category.. Mrs Fitz has returned from her… Read More ›
Sirloin steak and home grown spuds
There is absolutely nothing better than eating simply boiled spuds that have just come out of the soil .. And thanks to my pal jack, who kindly let me have a tub of his spuds.. That’s exactly what we had….. Read More ›
Côte de boeuf with prudys chips – decadence
It’s decadent… I admit it… Yet when you can lay your hands on a good priced yet still high standard piece of prime rib with the bone it just has to be done! That’s what happened on my visit to… Read More ›
Onglet/hanger steak kebabs.. Mrs Middletons wraps
First start with the finest piece of well hung beef.. And of course with what I think is the finest of steaks.. The onglet.. or call it hanger.. Or butchers cut.. Either way this is a small piece that sits… Read More ›
Delicious ham hock supper
I couldn’t think of another name for this dish.. It is exactly as I wrote.. Delicious ham hock supper.. ! It began with watching a re-run of a JO show.. He cooked a couple of these… I twisted the recipe… Read More ›
Bavette / flap steak with bath pots & ‘French peas’
Bavette steak? What? Flap steak? Better? No? Still lost? Think of those wonderful Paris cafe steaks. Actually don’t! Instead think about going to your favourite butchers.. Talking it through with them.. And getting them to cut out fresh from the… Read More ›
A kind of bolognese (meaty pasta sauce)
Why is this a ‘kind’ of bolognese? Ummm don’t know.. Well it for sure is not the classic red sauce.. Nor is it the more authentic actual Italian number.. So let’s just call it a meaty pasta sauce? It was… Read More ›
That’s a wrap.. Another one!
It had to happen again… That pulled beef is just screaming eat me! Do we did.. It was also a good time for Serena to see just how seriously easy those delicious flat breads are.. Remember the recipe? Two cups… Read More ›
Pulled beef ‘burgers’ in brioche, prudys chips
Sooooo.. Lots of delicious pulled beef about the place.. Next outing? Pulled beef burgers.. YEAH! Just formed the pulled beef brisket into patties.. Fried in a medium hot iron pan.. The ultimate brioche burger buns from st michaels.. Those buns… Read More ›
Pulled brisket of beef with olive oil breads..
I have been thinking about pulled beef for sometime now .. Doing some research.. Looking at cuts.. All that.. When it dawned on me.. First thing why don’t I just ask my fantastic butchers at ee lee & sons about… Read More ›
Mid week roast beef with trimmings !
That piece of topside has served well.. Three dinners .. !! This outing was a mid week roast .. Roast beef … Yeah… Mmmm… Yeah Mid week as well!! YEAH!! Now topside is not favourite roast.. Yet it works.. I… Read More ›
Beef kinda bourguignon
I found this big lump of topside in one of the freezers.. It’s not my favourite roasting joint and I had forgotten to portion it onto more manageable lumps! So a few things.. A chilli type affair.. That will have… Read More ›
Pie and chips twice.. Please..
Pie.. Mmmmmm.. Pie… What is it about pie that gives you a hug? Well done who first thought of pastry meets scrumptious filling.. Jolly well done! I had a couple of suitable entrants for the fillings.. One a beef kindabourguignon… Read More ›
Best steak supper! EE Lee& Sons steak
There is a particular cut if beef that I just love.. Go slightly potty for actually! I think it’s because it’s scarce . Just one strip of this on each beast.. It’s hard off me to locate.. Yet thanks to… Read More ›
Jamaican style patties/pasties
Having lots of kebab left over from the ‘Q’ the other day they couldn’t be thrown away.. I just couldn’t do that! Yet what to make? Hmmmm (ok I know that the title of this post gives it away.. Bear… Read More ›
Rasta kebabs ? Lebanesey flat bread
Why call these Rasta kebabs? Well I was going to call the Rasta-bation kebabs yet though that was a bit rude sounding.. All though they have been ‘basted’.. ? Rasta just due to the red yellow (gold) and green peppers….. Read More ›
Baked potatoes with leftover chilli
Baked potatoes .. when you just need something that’s gonna work without much work.. Who cannot love the baked potato? Not the anaemic chef ping alone jobbies.. That’s just nasty.. A baked potato needs to have an element of bakedness… Read More ›
Doner kebob/kebab/gyros and chips please..
Sometimes you just can’t beat a great fake-away.. And this seriously takes some beating! First the mix.. Gone for pork and beef as I have a pal that doesn’t do lamb too well and I wanted to give them some… Read More ›
Roast beef and prudys batatas fritas, feta, mint and peas
Gotta love roast beef.. A good bit of roast beef always goes down a treat.. We have family over so this made for a great sharing supper.. I had to cook the beef for just a little longer than I… Read More ›
The mighty pasty!
Behold the mighty pasty! Again not going to go into the ‘historics’ of the pasty nor the consistent battle of ingredients and cultural differences! Sheesh! Who would figure that it was so complicated to just write about a handheld ‘turnover’!!!… Read More ›
Simple steak supper
Such a simple delight this steak supper.. Sometimes it’s best just to let the meat do the talkings .. Starting with a very fine cut of steak from butcher Dave.. Aged beautifully The only thing with it was there was… Read More ›
Last of the Sunday beef= katsu curry
So let’s figure this out.. Four big beefy ribs.. Very cheap.. Have so far yielded : Two big Sunday suppers.. 7 pasties.. Delicious.. (Two given away to a chap that had leant me an extension lead.. ), two left for… Read More ›
Cooking with Mr Fitz 