Well it’s that Wonderful time of year when our fabulous godson Patrick Starsky swings on by to help me out with fabulous food for our wonderful clients.. Yet also to play with his food .. perfect to expiriment with some… Read More ›
Pigs
Old school foods .. belly porky greatness
What can you say .. If you dig the swine.. you just have to dig belly pork.. think of the crispy crackly top.. the juicy and a small bit fatty meat.. ooh yeah… Yet don’t mess about with most breeds….. Read More ›
Bruschetta affair
A quick simple number… yet so freaking tasty! Roasted red peppers.. these outta a jar.. love them.. , onion.. chorizo garlic and olive oil.. Then capers.. and possibly something else.. ( helpful huh?)., Cooked down Burnt bread slices.. topped off… Read More ›
Sweet and sour ground pork and stirfry store veg spring rolls
Spring rolls Lovely.. we like spring rolls, we like our own made ones more.. jus because you get to play with them.. the keema ones we made once or twice were rather fabulous .. these were more leaning towards the… Read More ›
‘Turk-esque’ piad pizza type wrap thingy
Well shucks I didn’t know quite what to call it.. if think the base as being a Turkish pizza.. basically lightly spiced ground meat in top of a pizza base only thinner and not crispy? Confused .. hmm possibly.. well… Read More ›
Cajun porchetta pan Purdue (roast pork and eggy bread sarnie).. ULTIMATE BREKKIE SANGER (in my world anyhoo).. and it’s for our bestest friend Serena
This was the last porchetta of 2016.. it was for a lovely wedding reception we did on New Year’s Eve… naturally to ensure that it’s all good we need to take a small bit off the ends of course.. ahem… … Read More ›
Another Pat in me kitchen! Bangers and mash, shallot gravy
He was back.. Pat.. Our lovely godson.. Just a flying visit to help me out with a big catering number we had.. he helped well.. so as a treat before he left to go back to the valleys I asked… Read More ›
So what’s been happening then Mr Fitz?
Ok .. So Mrs Fitz reminded me that I have met been posting as frequent. So what’s the story? We’ll have Ben getting the catering side really up and running.. There have been fabulous highs and lows.. Mostly I am… Read More ›
@meatopiauk time to meat up with a great pal..
now I have this excellent pal of mine.. You know the kinda pal that you don’t have to keep a close contact with to know that you are both totally there for each other whenever you may need it? I… Read More ›
One of the hottest days of the year.. Umm so let’s make steak pie! (Post pork ramen)…
It begins like this… Mrs Fitz decides she would like some ramen.. I decide I would like red roast pork… So they go together right? Yuppy doodly dandy.. Marinated some fabulous pork shoulder ‘steaks’ in char Sui powder mixed with… Read More ›
There’s been a Pat in me kitchen! Sausage rolls and crinkle chips with sweet and sour rotisserie chicken balls
Is that great time of year the start of the English summer, and the time of year that my lovely godson Patrick comes to stay.. He is a great help about this place.. And loves to cook too! Here he… Read More ›
Let’s go old school with extras .. Smoked back leg ham hock, smuggled Italian herbs, spuds, carrots and onions… With parsley and heavy milk chanterelle sauce!
That title just there .. That’s enough to make me rather hungry.. Having scored an excellent local freerange antibiotic free back hock that has also been locally smoked.. Plus some freebies of local veg that unfortunately would be left off… Read More ›
New Orleans rice ‘n’ ribs
ok.. Seriously Mr Fitz, just where have you been? Well it wasn’t London to see the queen.. Yet these kinda piggies have been taking up a bit of time as I build up a new adventure… I will say more… Read More ›
Hot diggity daags
where have I been? A bit busy.. That’s all I can reveal right now! Yet here is a quick and simple post. Take green onion and green pepper.. Chop up nice and small.. These are smaller gauge bockwurst.. I… Read More ›
#tacotuesday it’s a wrap! Pibil spit roast pork and rotisserie chicken, buttermilk slaw and chimchurri
I really didn’t mean to make #tacotuesday a thing.. Yet it seems to just creep up on us! https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Taco+Tuesday+&x=0&y=0 This outing used up some more of that wonderful spit roast free range pork stored in the inside freezer.. And also… Read More ›
Sausage making time! (And hogget chops, jersey royals and purple broccoli)..
Whenever I need a good think about things.. Sausage making helps me through it! You can see a bunch of them here! https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Sausages&x=0&y=0 These ones I am making with great chipolata style skins .. and a mix of old English… Read More ›
Crispy spit roast hog fritters .. Equals DELICIOUSNESS!
Having roasted this fantastic local free range antibiotic free piggy.. ( I did a charity do on May Day holiday you see!).. If the rain hadn’t of come down do hard ( hey it’s bank holiday it has to rain… Read More ›
Potted pork a classic!
Potting meat isn’t only a way of preserving .. it’s also a way to ensure that you get a super tasty treat! This one came about as I had a bunch of leftover roast pork from the hog roast on… Read More ›
So that’s one spicy noodle pork and one big red rub chopped beef with crinkle fries right?
what actually is chipped beef? I don’t know.. I suppose I could ask the google gods.. Perhaps I will when I get a chance later.. Ok . I just did.. And then changed the title from chipped to chopped beef.. … Read More ›
Multiple pork dishes from one cooked piggy
having managed to score a great couple of kilos of excellent free range shoulder of Berkshire pork, it was a wonder of what to do with it.. Hmm Well first thing is to split it up a little.. one third… Read More ›
#blythburgh bangers with Dijon leek and potato mash, peas and bistogravy #comfortfood #powerdownfordinner
Sometimes you just need a big food hug .. And what better than a good mash.. This one made from boiling leeks with the red potatoes and mashing them with unpasurised butter, sea salt, white pepper and Dijon mustard.. … Read More ›
Wild garlic salsa verde steak, Big red rub pork ribs, ONE veg #optigrill
sometimes you just need a meat fix.. Well we certainly do! And with some of the wild garlic salsa verde left in the fridge it just seemed to make sense to schmooze it all over a lovely piece of rump….. Read More ›
Bangers, mash and gravy
even just re reading that title makes me smile.. Like really makes me smile.. and who wouldn’t .. It’s one of the ultimate comfort foods.. Perfect for post Easter feasting.. First the mash.. Maris pipers boiled with a piece of… Read More ›
Easter BBQ time (first of the year)
In the mighty song words of don jennon.. So this is Easter… (Was superceded by the much more popular Beatle boy who changed it to a more defined Christian holiday..😉).. Anyhoo it’s ‘alam’ eating time.. Thanks to my good pal… Read More ›
Birthday eve chinese red braised pork and mixed egg fried rice treat
its my birthday eve.. Is that a real thing? Sure! You have Christmas Eve.. New Year’s Eve.. And maybe some others.. Umm anyhoo.. So as a treat for me.. Seeing how I really do enjoy Porky delights.. Red braised pork….. Read More ›
Pressed belly pork, collard greens and leftover @urbangrilla smoked chicken
this was a marathon of a piece of belly pork.. Not that it was actually that big a piece more the process.. First popping the pork on top of a bed of onions, carrots , garlic cloves, Rosemary and thyme….. Read More ›
Over condimented laab namtok mixed noodles lettuce cup salad
try saying that title a bunch of times right?? Yet how else to explain this wonderful supper that basically uses all the seasonings that you can hold at once from the cupboard.. That is why it is possibly.. Well indeededly… Read More ›
Leftover pulled pork hard tacos #tacotuesday
Remember that pulled pork from the other day? https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/2016/02/19/crockpot-slow-cooker-shoulder-of-pork-pulledporkmadeeasy Well another part of it got a run out .. a fantastic leftover pulled pork recipe First draining this bottle of red hot wing sauce.. It’s been needing to be… Read More ›
Eggy bread / French toast and thick cut smoked bacon brunch
what is it about eggy bread? Or French toast as some call it.. I remember driving highway one with my Father as a young teenager.. (I also made him drive through some seriously strange neighbourhoods! Think back to the 80s… Read More ›
Sweet and sour salt and pepper shoulder pork balls with half and half
who doesn’t like these.. Ok if you don’t eat pork perhaps you won’t.. I am not apologising though! Still using that wonderful pork shoulder.. This time some pieces chopped and boiled.. Yup boiled.. Don’t skim off that rising stuff… Read More ›
Crockpot / slow cooker shoulder of pork #pulledporkmadeeasy
Having scored a fantastic piece of shoulder.. Just over a couple of keys.. Chopped in half .. Into the slow cooker or crockpot or whatever you want to call it.. With French garlic granules,Californian onion granules, Turkish urfa pepper, Spanish… Read More ›
Slo cooked belly pork with pouisson and black eyed bean miso gravy , Red potato mash and pork broth greens… #comfortfood
its cold.. Grey and cold.. Rainy and cold.. Did I mention that it’s cold? So it’s time to pull out those #winterwarmers and this one doesn’t disappoint! A half kilo stick of belly pork.. Rubbed in thyme and salt sat… Read More ›
Potted orange marmalade ham A British classic!
potting meats has been an age old way of not only preserving meat yet also ensuring really rather a tasty treat! I think if Paddington bear ate pigs ( and perhaps he did in deepest darkest Peru?).. He would quite… Read More ›
Irish soda bread and Rosemary scented sausages for breakfast
whats better than freshly baked bread for breakfast? Umm well adding sausages I suppose! After waking this morning I suddenly had a notion that we needed fresh soda bread.. It’s a miserable day today and we really need to take… Read More ›
A big plate of Asian-esque stuff..
Freezer foraging produced a carton of this. https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/2016/01/20/piggy-laab-namtock-and-spooning-with-rosie-sweet-corn-fritters So that’s supper then.. Hmm yet to make it even better? Take a butter lettuce and lay all the leaves out perhaps? Squidiling done Korean chilli sauce and some ketjap manis? Yeah… Read More ›
Black eyed beans with red miso sauce , buttery mash, iberican chorizo and belly pork slices
Mrs Fitz has been away for the weekend.. Which meant we were home alone.. It also means that cooking for one ( plus two hounds!).. Becomes a bit strange.. Yet I really needed a Valium hit.. One of those meals… Read More ›
One pork belly two ways, roast and #texascrutchibs
here is a tale of two meals.. The first was simply roasted , rubbed with thyme and salt.. It’s a knarly crispy porky delight! Made prettier with a salad cup with cucumber and newmans dressing .. Wedges roasted along… Read More ›
#tacosaturday pibli pork, turtle beans, chicken and sweet potato spiced rice…
That headline picture is a pal of mines money plant.. I have never seen one flower before! more freezer foraging! And it returns a few gems.. This tub of pulled pork with turtle beans gets an outing.. Defrosted and some… Read More ›
Piggy laab namtock and spooning with Rosie sweet corn fritters
remember that belly pork that all got minced up? Well another of the things I made was laab namtock.. Thai kinda food.. Delicious in my book! Fried off with water.. It makes it lovely and soft.. Then the store bought… Read More ›
Hand raised Pork pies from scratch
there is something about the pork pie.. Something that is just a treat.. Sure we have recollections of some horrors .. Yet I think the thoughts of the good ones far outweigh the negatives.. I have never made pork pies,… Read More ›
Roasted smoked honey bacon , cabbage and potatoes -classic!
This is a classic.. A brilliant number.. You know what I loved it so so much .. Like seriously loved it! First the bacon, a slab of excellent blythburg bacon, smoked nearby.. Hard to lay your hands on.. Yet you… Read More ›
Swedish Korva sausage for #fiestafriday 101
jaunted across country today to catch up with my good pal Ben at the redborne school farm.. A couple of reasons.. One to pick up excellent turkey legs he kept me from the ones he culled for Christmas .( thats… Read More ›
Out with the old in with the new.. Happy ny16
A couple of suppers here.. Why? We’ll both too quick really to make a ‘regular’ post out of! First out with the old.. well this is kinda out with the old.. First some pulled pork hand foraged from the inside freezer….. Read More ›
Super rich butter and pig fat sausage Ruff puff rolls
some may read that and not be sure about it.. Must say that I could have written it differently .. Yet let’s not beat about the bush ( or pig pen!).. These fats are not bad for you in moderation… Read More ›
#TacoTuesday
its taco Tuesday!! Yay! Well ok.. To be completely honest the name was simple , it’s Tuesday and we had tacos.. Therefore.. It’s #tacotuesday !! Hurrah! We forget how much we like tacos. Seeing as we have no Mexican restaurants… Read More ›
Curry night four currys
Strange title when you look back on that.. Still it is as it says., four currys.. Why? Well we like to have options .. The first was a mushroom and pea number .. Made simply by frying onions , garlic… Read More ›
Smoked mackerel and seriously salty bacon post flight supper
Post flight .. Hungry .. Good thing is there is a rather neat supermarket .. Used to be called St michaels.. Anyhow.. Picked up these.. Some salad .. And some reduced smoked shishies.. And you know I don’t really… Read More ›
Char Sui style fried rice thingy
I really like char Sui.. What I don’t like (or really trust to be honest) is A: the quality of the pork B: the tincy amount you seem to get given.. And I think I prefer it with belly rather… Read More ›
Garlic and black bean pork chops, with salad, starch free supper
starch free supper? Huh? Pretty simple really just no starch.. Why? Well for some reason I just wanted meat and the salad appeared as I suppose I better have more than just meat.. The meat though is lovely! Loin chops….. Read More ›
rotisserie Chicken and chorizo rice fry..
It’s been ages since I have had a rice fry.. I forget just how much I do enjoy them! After scoring a corn fed free range rotisserie chicken.. And feeding most of it to Mrs Fitz and the hounds.. I… Read More ›
Sitters sausage rolls
huh? Well the hounds have gone off to their sitters.. While we take to the skies ! So you have to give a gift along with the hounds right? So sausages rolls it is.. They always go down well.. So… Read More ›
Brilliant @blythburgh belly & one veg
The last of the use up food prior to our adventures.. A wonderful piece of @blythburgh belly .. Scored as fine as possible with my scouts knife. (Was actually in the woodcraft folk).. Skin side rubbed with Thyme and… Read More ›
Bucks star toad in the hole, plus a fillet for Mrs Fitz, crispy spud skinz , French fine beans and highgrove gravy
well that tells it all right there huh? Am still intrigued by bucks star beer.. Did I mention that the sheer ingredients (or lack of).. Have me curious.. Check them out here.. https://bucksstar.wordpress.com So I want to try some more… Read More ›
Gyros, doner kebab, doner time, elephant legs… Straw fries, easy yoghurt bread..
haven’t made gyros for ages.. And using up stuff prior to our Indian adventure is providing some excellent indoor foraging.. This pulled up some beef and pork mince.. Stashed away in August .. and some mutton burgers from redborne school… Read More ›
@blythburgh brined shoulder of pork with inca bella roasties
it’s that time of year for sure.. When the mind and belly turns toward the long cooked roasts.. The stews the warming comforty foods that make you smile.. And perhaps start to feel a little festive? ( it’s not far-away… Read More ›
Seriously super short sausage rolls
I hear that New York has just discovered the sausage roll?? Really? Well I reckon it must be due to the lack of ‘proper’ sausages in the states perhaps? Dunno? Well I though u would try a new pastry recipe… Read More ›
Cyprus wedges #smashburger style and #blythburgh pork tacos with turtle beans and 0% Greek yoghurt dressing #delightfullleftovers
remember the best thing about cooking that hand of most excellent #blythburgh pork? Extras left over ! Only so much Nigella snacking me and the hounds can manage.. So it’s turned into tacos… Wonderful taco mix.. Pulling the pork to… Read More ›
#blythburgh hand of pork -you get what you seek and pay for!
Hand of pork. A stunning piece of meat, particularly when it’s of the finest quality , this meat really is the best free range pork in the UK in my view.. And that’s where when you seek you will find….. Read More ›
Pot stickers gyoza dumplings delish!
We dig pot stickers.. And I know my good pal Ramsay delights in them.. Although these are just for us! Soz Rams! Now I am sure that if you do these often enough you can get a speed on.. I… Read More ›
Hand of pork -Blythburgh stunner!🎉
hand of pork , an often overlooked cut .. Yet with a little care to start and then the ability to fuggedaboutit it turns magical .. Truly wonderful .. Of course the better the pig the better the final.. As… Read More ›
Almost vegetarian double stuffed urfa pepper potatoes An green salad for Mr Fitz and double stuffed sweet potatoes with a sirloin for Mrs Fitz
Thats a long title huh? Let’s also get one thing clear .. A green salad must only contain green items! Humph.. ( I would have liked some fresh herbs in although we are out till I can get new supplies… Read More ›
Bangers Keith Richards stylee & mash , peas and gravy
cooking sausages Keith Richards style (yes that Keith Richards!).. Is really the best way of cooking sausages in my book.. Check it out with the google gods.. And of course it has to be an excellent banger.. And these ones… Read More ›
Redborne school farm chopping and eating gyoza & tenderloin fresh from the piggie..
i went off to have a play with a good pal of mine.. Ben runs an excellent school farm as well as teaching the students about looking after wonderful animals.. All good for eating.. He has lovely pigs. As… Read More ›
#theporkiestsausagerollseverintheworld for macintyre day
just fancied writing the title that way.. Suppose now if anyone ever does a search for the #porkiestsausagerollsintheworld then at least they will see this post too right? It was time to make sausage rolls again for the troops at… Read More ›
BlythburgH belly & prudys sweet potato chips..meat & 1 veg
Managed to score a great piece of blythburgh piggie.. From the fantastic butchers, there was a nice lady in there too getting some. I hope it cooked well for her.. It was her first time cooking belly pork..and she said… Read More ›
@meatopiauk
firstly let me tell you I have been waiting to attend this event for ages.. I missed it two years in a row.. Yet for my birthday back in March Mrs Fitz bought me an excellent gift of not only… Read More ›
Friday night Chinese fakeaway
now Mrs Fitz is not the biggest fan of Chinese food and we don’t really eat it that often.. Yet sometimes when you get a hankering for summat.. And this was one of those hankerings.. And what better to make… Read More ›
Macintyre charity sausage roll wheels, with apple sauce from scratch & stuffing
Mrs Fitz has asked if we can make up an offering for the Macintyre charity day thingy-mee-bobby that she has in the office tomorrow.. So what better than a kinda sausage roll .. Have made them before for her to… Read More ›
Porchetta – meat an’ spuds
father Fitz sent me a link to an article about porchetta recently.. Not the greatest article .. Yet kinda inspiring.. Enough to keep it firmly in my mind anyways.. So chatting with one of my master butchers protégés enabled us… Read More ›
Gyoza , potstickers , dumplings
whatever you call them.. More inspiration in this nasty weather .. And being inspired this time by my blogger pal over at http://foodisthebestshitever.com Who made something he had never made before.. I decided on these.. And have decided to dedicate… Read More ›
Chine-easy pork balls
with a slight glut of pork loins. (Yeah I got too many on a special!) 😏 And not wanting to freeze them all.. Needed an easy tasty treat.. I am a huge fan of Chinese deep fried meat donuts.. (Apart… Read More ›
There’s a Pat in me kitchen what ima gonna do?
It’s that time of year again.. The end of summer .. When we are fortunate enough for my Godson Patrick Starsky to still want to come visit.. He catches a coach and it takes over six and a half hours! … Read More ›
Quick pork ,apple & stuffing sausage rolls , so simple!
sausage rolls.. Yummmmmmm Not those ones with indescribable pink slimey/sludge in though! As you will see from here: https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Sausage+rolls&x=0&y=0 We dig them.. And I saw these type of ones for sale in a pretty expensive store , no names yet… Read More ›
Steak teryiaki skewers with blythburgh pork spring rolls and mixed up egg fried brown rice ..
It’s time we ate steaks again.. The abscence has been noted .. What better a reintroduction than lovely teryiaki skewers? Taken the red ticket steaks.. Trimmed ( trimmings gone to a good hound home).. 😏 Beat the steaks with… Read More ›
Super simple Sausage & chips supper
sometimes you just want something simple . This is a kinda sausage and chips with buttered bread.. The sausage meat that we had was pimped up with nutmeg, dried coriander, Bristol blend pepper and dried sage.. No skins just rolled… Read More ›
Ramen lunch with ‘that’ blythburgh belly pork
with great leftovers at my disposal it calls for a great lunch.. That pork.. It screams ramen to me.. Spare rib broth disks from the Chinese store .. Into the hot water.. Some egg noodles .. A handful of… Read More ›
Spooning with Rosie inspired rotessiere blythburgh belly pork
this love affair with our new toy continues .. Having worked out some original issues with the gas delivery to the burners.. Not totally fixed as they don’t seem to want to go lower than I would like not higher!!… Read More ›
Meat & potatoes , simple eats
is summer actually here? Well it sure don’t seem like it! The mornings are starting out very bright and sunny.. Yet that seems to move off pretty sharpish ! Yet the warmness/closenessdoes call for simple eats.. What can be better… Read More ›
It’s a rainy Sunday .. Need porky Ramen! @sundaybrunch
It’s a terrible summer.. The rain is non stop and I am wearing a jersey.. Refusing to put socks on yet feel that I need too.. Humph! So after an early trip to the market to get supplies in. ….. Read More ›
It’s crunch time!
“What you talking ’bout Mr Fitz huh??” I am talking a three and a half hour blythburgh cookedbelly pork .. http://www.freerangepork.co.uk Boned and seasoned meat side.. Flipped and dill and salt on the skin for super crackly crackling (the… Read More ›
Chimichurri pulled pork ‘tacos’ With hot salsa(accident)…
needed to eat up freezer food.. So we have one of the great pulled pork pots left.. https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Pulled+pork&x=0&y=0 A salsa to go with.. With these great mixed tomatoes.. That’s pink onions.. Garlic.. Herbs, smuggled Mexican chilli and lime powder…. Read More ›
Pizza and kebab yeah ! 😁
huh? Pizza and kebab? Yup.. It started with this box that I got sent from Lurpak.. They picked up some of my posts and seem to have liked them.. So I got sent this box of stuff from the supper… Read More ›
Ramen noodles supper
i really like ramen.. Haven’t had it for ages .. I follow @kintonramen on the Twitter.. Their ramen looks the business.. Problem is they are based in Canada .. Umm and I am not.. So make I had to make… Read More ›
Sausage rolls a classic !
sausage rolls.. Proper ones.. Well ok you can get all fancy pants on the things .. I have seen some in a store that are not only the price of pint of beer yet have some truly ‘funky’ flavourings! Sorry… Read More ›
A lovely day making ‘Michelin starred’ sausages …
isn’t it great when you can share a passion? And particularly when that passion is for fine foodstuffs? I got invited by Ben to pop down to their small school farm and make kielbasa .. Ok.. So that’s the ‘generic’… Read More ›
Chicken & chips (kinda)..Chimichurri too
that non-red meat thing is still happening in our house.. So after having this wonderful belly pork..(slow roasted for three and a half hours).. Yeah!! It was time for another chicken.. Again spatchcock it.. Marinated in ‘nandos’ lemon and… Read More ›
Crispy pork schnitzel Sangers
a good pal who has moved to Poland told me that no child in Poland goes on a school trip without a cold schnitzel sandwich.. True? Possibly not 100% of children.. ? Hmm Yet hey! That’s not going to stop… Read More ›
Sausage rolls from scratcho
i don’t make my own pastry that often .. Yet inspired by my blogger pal Melissa at glen house this had to have a turn out.. Decided after looking at various suggestions from the Google gods on going it alone.. … Read More ›
Making Sausages from scratch
regular readers should know by now that making sausages has a firm place in my world.. It is great to make your own.. So so so simples.. And incredibly cost effective .. These have great free range pork.. And. Excellent… Read More ›
Sunday Sausage making time …
having time on my hands while Mrs Fitz was walking that country 10k with the hounds.. And seeing as it was too early for a few pints .. (Even though it was Sunday..😉 Making sausages seems like just the time… Read More ›
Pulled pork tacos..
Good thing about making a bunch of pulled pork is that you end up boxing some up.. https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/2015/04/17/pulled-pork-with-peppers-onions-chimchurri/ So outta the freezer and defrosted.. Chef ping dealt with the hotting up of that.. And in the meantime .. Chopped peppers,… Read More ›
Sausage making -Cumberland seasoned
need to think about some stuff .. So sausage making is the way forward .. Some bake bread.. Some meditate .. I make sausages.. Very nice ones too! https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Sausages&x=0&y=0 These made with a nice piece of Berkshire free range pork….. Read More ›
Eggy bread and rough cut bacon
eggy bread.. Yeah!👍 French toast? Nah.. Tell it like it is.. Eggy bread. And it’s good.. Good eggs..(just one here).. Whooped and a couple of just turning pieces of French bread.. The bacon is a stick of home cured… Read More ›
Pulled pork bun and ‘real’ chips/fries
With all that delicious pork currently residing in the big white box.. It would be terrible not to keep at it! First the chips/fries though.. I have a deep problem with not having real chips.. C’mon! Chips need to be… Read More ›
So soft and Simple flatbreads..
these really are the simplest breads.. I apologise in advance for the amount of pics to follow.. Yet it’s worth it.. First in the processor (or by hand).. Add the same weight of natural yoghurt to plain/ap flour.. A pinch… Read More ›
Ribs! Glorious ribs!
love em or hate em.. Ribs is just one of those things that makes me smile.. I like em.. Don’t eat them enough really.. Bad ribs are really bad.. Good ribs are excellent! These ribs are loin ribs.. And will… Read More ›
Pork and bacon old Irish recipe sausages..Homemade of course !
sausage making time again.. Things to think about so nothing more therapeutic than making sausages.. Some bake.. Others meditate.. I make sausages.. Mmmm sosss-aaahhh-jezzz.. Taking good free range red ticket pork..mushing it up.. With chopped unsmoked streaky bacon.. Adding the… Read More ›
Porky ear treats For beautiful bassets
These are Mr Wentworth & Cora murleys favourite snacks.. And they will be playing with their friends over the weekend so they can give them a few too! I hate giving my bestest animal friends those additive loaded who knows… Read More ›
All Butter sausage rolls
sausage rolls.. A classic.. Been a while since I made them for home.. I normally make them as a gift for various sorts.. A good sausage roll is a great thing! I had this all butter pastry needed using up.. … Read More ›
Turkishesque supper
not long till we go ‘a wanderin’ again.. This time to where (I am told!).. Madness meets insanity!! East meets west.. Istanbul! So in order to prepare for the taste-full adventures we will be embarking on.. Let’s get some practice… Read More ›
Pork, veg and rice.. Fast!
Needed to cook this fast.. So pork shoulder chopped.. Inc rind and all… Into the uncle bens wok with a couple cloves of garlic.. Mixed veg.. Mrs middletons rapeseed oil.. And some brown basmati.. Cooked up on fierce heat.. … Read More ›
Leon chorizo & Jersey royals omelette
going through the fridge showed me.. That we don’t eat cherry yoghurt ( it’s gone way over date..).. And also that there is a stick of Leon chorizo needing eating.. Some Jersey royals and eggs that according to pack date… Read More ›
Making a pigs ear outta it!
Well not quite right really.. It started. With these heads.. ( they already had ears!).. I got the ears… As a gift.. Chopped em up.. ( you gotta get over yourself a little to chop em up!).. … Read More ›
Mexican chorizo
So how does this start? It started with a gift from my attorney. A hamper filled with Mexican goodies! Which was pretty cool I reckon! Yet where to start? Start where you begin.. Decided on Mexican chorizo .. What… Read More ›
Skirt,lamb chops,onglet,pancetta, Salad & corn , Muscat & pin berries..
huh? Is that just a random collection of words? Nope! It was a flavour feast! First off, the small bit of onglet chopped with pancetta threaded onto bamboo skewers olive oil and Lebanese herbs to flavour.. They made… Read More ›
Sausages, bangers, snags, links..
whatever you call ’em.. Sausages (for the porpoise of this!).. Are fantastic! And to make them even better.. This ensures that you are getting not only excellent value for cashola yet also a sausage with honesty and provenance .. How… Read More ›
Pulled pork with bubble & squeak
with pulled pork abound it had to be eaten again for supper.. All yellow ticket items are going into this bubble and squeak.. You gotta love bubble and squeak.. It’s great! And ok better if using leftovers yet still very… Read More ›
Pulled pork with peppers & onions & chimchurri
it’s been a while since we had pulled pork.. Or in real terms just really slowed cooked pork till its flaky tender! 🐷 So this just under a kilo of red ticket free Hampshire free range shoulder, boned and rindless… Read More ›
Bbq mix up meats
well the season seems to be starting.. The wonderful wisps of charring things.. My attorney has started grilling a day early this year according to his records.. That must be a reflection on the earths movements , weather change type… Read More ›
Still Eire..
get it? Still here in Eire.. First the news.. Mrs Fitz’s passport has been located in the courtesy car.. YAY! 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👍👊✌️ Ok so drove to Kinsale after a breakfast of pancakes Ahh no!! First what happened is that this… Read More ›
Making red ticket free range jerk & apple sausages
Been a while since I made some sausages.. Dunno why.. It chills me right out.. Strange yet true! And with this great piece of red ticket free range antibiotic free piece of shoulder it just cries ‘sausages!’.. Minced twice and… Read More ›
Roast loin of porkiness
Remember that great cut from the Wollaston butchers? No? Ok.. It was this one .. Actually not that cut yet offa the same antibiotic free range blythworth pig.. Roasted up a treat! Just 180 degrees in the oven for the… Read More ›
Pulled pork flatbread wraps
One good thing about cooking lots of pork means that you can find it in the freezer all tubbed up and ready to go.. https://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=Pulled+pork&x=0&y=0 So after a defrosting on the cool ( scuse the pun!).. Defrost plate.. It’s good… Read More ›
Three an a half hours smoked pork hock
The tree? It split down near us. Such a shame.. And they have actually cut the whole thing down now.. What a shame I am sure that it didn’t need that.. Ok let’s talk smoked hock of pork., Pork hock… Read More ›
Roast loin of pork supper
Final supper for this birthday weekender.. Roast loin of pork.. A full on bone in number.. First it’s all about the pork.. Cracking free range number from those butcher boys in Wollaston.. They sang me happy birthday when I went… Read More ›
Pork schnitzel and Greek basil potatoes
I was due to cook my birthday tomahawk steak on the wonderful wood that my attorney sent me.. Yet after a wonderful lunch of samosa chaat in the badlands.. I took up a residence for the afternoon in the local… Read More ›
Eat at joes in amsterdam
Here I am in amsterdam .. It’s rainy and cold off the canals.. Yet hey. It’s such a lovely place.. Just so pretty .. Good home style food was needed though so eat at joes it is.. A great place… Read More ›
Sausage rolls for breakfast
Mrs Fitz has returned home from work as she really is not well. A terrible cough coldy thing that kept her up most of the night.. So after dosing with smuggled spanish pharmaceuticals.. ( why can’t you get the good… Read More ›
Scottish style supper ( wasn’t great!)..
Having missed burns night.. My attorney made haggis .. He sent me a kit also with the OX bung and all yet I didn’t get time to go to the butchers for the meats.. Yet I fancied a scottish style… Read More ›
Doner kebab, gyros, kebob,fake-away of course!
Ok.. First thing is that this is not actually on a rotisserie so there is no spinning or turning. Which is indeed where the actual name comes from.. (Fun meat fact right there!..) Yet this is bang on the flavour… Read More ›
12 hour roast pork & veg brown rice & ranch coleslaw wraps
TWELVE hours.. Yup it’s an all nighter.. One where you keep waking up sniffing the air wondering if it’s time to get up yet..(i suppose if you didn’t like roast porky goodness then it may offend.. Doubt it though big… Read More ›
Italian sausage casserole? With gratin
Why the question mark? Because I am not sure if this actually is a casserole? Let me tell you and then we can decide? Cool.. Now as you know I prefer to make my own delicious sausages.. Yet these Italian… Read More ›
Homemade scotch eggs & sausage rolls
Bring out the classics!! Sausage rolls as we all know are the schizzle.. These were up to scratch.. Using some of those orange ticketed items! Hampshire sired free range Sage and onion stuffing balls ‘meat’ (sorry).. The same pork chipolatas….. Read More ›
Christmas morning bacon butties
It’s Christmas!! So I suppose happy Christmas to all.. Heck! Why not! Happy Christmas all There we go.. Right festive hello over let’s talk bacon .. Proper bacon.. Middle bacon.. The true king of bacon.. ( and this very lightly… Read More ›
Pat makes sausages welsh dragon & merguez-esque
I couldn’t let my godson Patrick leave our house without him making sausages.. First the style? Two types .. The first for supper.. Welsh dragon.. British Belly pork ( of course all our meat is antibiotic free and grass at… Read More ›
Roast pork chow mein using the last of the leftover pork
That lovely porky delight just keeps giving! This was using up the last of it.. It made four good tubs.. Which meant a pal got to share in the joy of porky noodley goodness.. I love chow mein!! First chopped… Read More ›
Roast pork & potato croquettes
What’s the best thing about roasting ‘ high’? (meaning to cook more of a roast than you needed at the time..).. Leftovers! This outing of leftovers is a fave.. I dig croquettes .. That outside crunchiness .. Giving way to… Read More ›
Roast pork supper
Roast pork .. If you don’t dig pork turn over now.. Inspired by my attorney who was having a bit of a pre-Christmas thing as the countdown has now begun .. ( hope it went swimmingly!).. A piece of yellow… Read More ›
Tuna steak , French beans and potatoes
Tuna steak.. Huh? Not like.. Real steak?? Nope.. The fish variety.. Marinated in Bharat spices Wonderful new potatoes .. I forget the type yet very good and not those nasty. Maris peer things.. Yuck!! Mixed up with spring onion, French… Read More ›
Old school food (not educational)..
This is old school food.. Sometimes there just ain’t no school like old school.. Why whoop this up? To pass onto Grandfather Fitz.. Mama is going up to spend a little time with him so food gifts are the best… 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 ›
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 ›
Proper bacon sarnie..middle bacon
Inspired by my attorney’s picture message to me showing me his by the seaside breakfast.. .. I just had to have a bacon buttie.. No ordinary bacon though.. Ooh no Monsieur .. This is proper middle bacon.. That rare gem… Read More ›
Mixed chow mein & Chinese sausages
<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/13098221/?claim=gt6tkc8cd3w”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Was time to cook.. Yay!! Thanks to the blue dragon family.. I wanted fresh beansprouts yet it appears that the store near us has decided that now it is autumn that people don’t want… 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 ›
In-room dining Mr Fitz stylee
Good day in the sun today .. Got slightly pink like a veal blush chop.. Must remember to add more cream! (Or actually any! ).. Ahem.. Ok.. Here’s the deal.. You know that in very nice hotels you get very… Read More ›
Huevos rancheros hangover curer
After speaking with my attorney this morning via the power of text, he made an egg-cel lent suggestion indeed.. Huevos rancheros The wonderful kick starter just perfect for a brunch.. Tingling the taste buds , wakening the senses.. It had… Read More ›
Bacon brioche butty – the birgerbird special
I have ‘created’ this wonderful snack in honour of my pal across the pond Sue.. Check out her blog here.. http://burgerbird.wordpress.com And yup she came second in an immense pie contest .. Immense!! And I am personally proud and honoured… Read More ›
Smoked hock = old school food
The weather is bonkers! First the heavens open and the sky goes dark.. The heating has to go on.. The lights ..and socks and a cardigan! Then the next day it’s sunny .. That’s for another post .. So good… Read More ›
Black bean bubble & squeak croquettes
Nothing beats a good bubble and squeak.. Nothing! ( ok maybe some stuff ..) Yet when you can lay your hand on a superb locally grown ( like yards over miles) grown cabbage and match that with spuds from just… Read More ›
Friday or fry- day supper ?
First of all happy fiesta friday to all .. Now Friday.. The traditional day of fish eating.. From the good ol Catholics to the rocking st Lucian friday fish fry, wow I remember the first time I was there.. It… Read More ›
Pork crackling/scratchings
What to do when your butcher puts a load of pork rind into your shopping bag with a knowing wink?? It’s gotta be turned into porky snappy goodness no? Simply snipped into lengths .. The oil heated in the wok… Read More ›
Chinese red pork sausages ? Really?
Yup really.. Imagine the flavours of chinese red pork.. Or spare ribs.. That distinct wonderful flavour that is meat meets flavours of the orient.. Ok.. You got it? Now.. Imagine that in a sausage???? Wowee woo woo!! Cool huh? Umm… 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 ›
Proper sausage rolls ‘gourmet?’
Haven’t made sausage rolls for a good while I think.. With store bought puff needed using up.. And having decided on not making the pie nor pasties I thought I was going to.. It had to be proper hearty ‘gourmet’… 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 ›
Eye-tal-eee-ann sausages & pork rinds
Haven’t made sausages for a while.. Yet after a good walk in the woods with the hounds this morning I seem to be full of gusto! ( will crash soon!).. It’s gotta be that air you get deep in the… Read More ›
Red pork & Japanese easy noodles
I haven’t made red pork for ages.. I forget how much I like it.. Particularly the ones hanging in the windows in Chinatown .. Ooh those the ducks and piggies are just the best meat adornments ever for a store… Read More ›
Porky schnitzel
You gotta love a good schnitzel .. Not the veggie ones though.. Sorry.. Not even for Christmas.. That soft porky goodness giving way to buttery crunchiness.. Slightly peppery for us.. I remember my gutless taste if a schnitzel in Germany….. Read More ›
I cracked! (Cooking in Kinsale )
Got cooking pains me.. I get withdrawal symptoms.. Like a shaky shivery skinny person .. Waiting for ‘the man’.. And my attorney sent me a mail about the delicious sounding lamb dish he slow cooked yesterday.. It got me.. Ok… Read More ›
Cooking with Mr Fitz 