Culinary delight thread...

Fish and chips, blady lovely Just thinking i havent had Chic Ken for at least 5 days

Big Bens was the first Tenerife pub I went in back in 2001, stayed at the Comodoro opposite.
Chicken curry tonight, spicy hot, more runny nose. 

Home made burgers with grilled tomato and roast sweet potatoes. Didn´t eat last night, they had already had a meal after landing so not hungry. We were starving so left at 10.30 got home and had a bowl of porridge and Jim had toast

Tomorrow meeting them again for a meal - not sure where but not Big Ben or Desperate Dans that's for certain.

Fortuna on the middle road,

Pizza tonight. Margaritas is close Gypsy.......

Well it was meant to be roast sholder of pork with all the trimmings,,, but, last night ended up a bit of a party and nobody could be arsed cooking today so takeaway ordered, I'm on the lamb kabab, may help it down with a bit of the red wine that's left from last night...

I have no idea what i had, Its been in a slow cooker all afternoon, but i just
I ate it so i didnt fall over later on

Liver and onions with chips, cauliflower and carrots, then Belgian waffles with banana and toffee sauce with a scoop of Mr. Whippy ice cream...yumtastic!

Adam Mint wrote:Well it was meant to be roast sholder of pork with all the trimmings,,, but, last night ended up a bit of a party and nobody could be arsed cooking today so takeaway ordered, I'm on the lamb kabab, may help it down with a bit of the red wine that's left from last night...

It was crap, when we order we phone a takeaway we know cos the food is good, Annie left it to her son to order, he done it on line, fu#k knows where it came from, but I know where it went, the bucket, and not just mine, everybody's...

Well at least the wines ok...

Can see a cupboard/fridge raid comming up soon, had the munchies Friday night late on, made pizza from scratch, nice thin base and topped with the normal tomato and cheese then sections with pepperoni, mushroom, ham and onion, don't think there's any pepperoni sausage left but got all the other bits, mmmm...

The Lone Ranger wrote:Liver and onions with chips, cauliflower and carrots, then Belgian waffles with banana and toffee sauce with a scoop of Mr. Whippy ice cream...yumtastic!

Get you Sounds like a decent menu, BT wages innit

Pasties, potato salad and beans. Got some roast beef in the fridge but too busy so it will wait for tomorrow, like Minty.

Chicken pie, chips and beans on the menu for tonight...

We're having whatever comes out of the freezer most days this week. We have to make room for the big Xmas shop.

Feck knows what i just had again I stopped asking, Janet thinks i'm complaing

Beef Wellington,,, never had it or made it before, but they make it all the time on that Come Dine With Me program and rave about it, it's in the oven as I type this, be ready in about twenty minutes, to go with it, carrots, broccoli, shallots, Yorkshire puddings, baby potatoes and gravey...

Oh , a glass or two of the red stuff...

Report to follow...

Adam Mint wrote:Beef Wellington,,, never had it or made it before, but they make it all the time on that Come Dine With Me program and rave about it, it's in the oven as I type this, be ready in about twenty minutes, to go with it, carrots, broccoli, shallots, Yorkshire puddings, baby potatoes and gravy...

Oh , a glass or two of the red stuff...

Report to follow...

"Fail"...

Took it out the oven, looked the part, cut the first slice, looked the part, pink and juicy, serve it up, the veg yum, the beef, tough as a old boot, totally uneatable...
As said was first time I'd made it so looked at a few recipes and followed the book, thought the cooking times given for a kilo of beef, thirty minuets was a bit short but that's what all the recipes said and our bit of beef was only point eight of a kilo sio went for it...

So what went wrong ???

Answers on a postcard please...

But that beef ain't going to waste, as norm far to much veg, so chopped and in to a pot, beef diced, a couple of stock Cubs and boiling away as we talk, so hopefully a nice pot of beefy soup tomorrow...

Now where the takeaway number.............

Not a good cut of beef for a start, good beef you should be able to eat raw and not be tough. Next time marinate it overnight. Also part cook the beef it won't cook much more. If you are using truffle on wellington you could marinate with a madeira mix.

Done it all today, seared  the beef and made the filing, let it cool, then in fridge for half a hour once wrapped in pastry like the recipe said, so as you say a poor cut of beef, but looked ok, very little fat and fresh looking, but a fail...

Has to be fillet ,sounds like the method was spot on, normally I wrap some bacon round the mushrooms/truffle mix, the pastry has to be put on with care and cook in a really hot oven, glaze with egg yolk for a really dark glaze, not a job for novices really unless they are sober

Made many times and fillet is correct but I have done a few rimes with Porterhouse and for me a more tasty steak. I take it you used a Topside or joint cut of beef.  If Fillet too expensive perhaps just use a large chunk of sirloin, but go to a local Butcher and ask for his most tendercut and tell him what you want it for.

I think the wording on the packaging just said Beef Joint, anyway beef and veg soups ok, beef just melts away on your mouth now, where last night even if cut waver thin was like chewing gum...

Oh, and as for "sober", well I went to the Floyd school of cooking, that's where you start sober but may not necessarily be so at the end, but at least that way you don't really give a shit what the food tastes like...

 Hic...
 Yum...

Topdog wrote:Made many times and fillet is correct but I have done a few rimes with Porterhouse and for me a more tasty steak. I take it you used a Topside or joint cut of beef.  If Fillet too expensive perhaps just use a large chunk of sirloin, but go to a local Butcher and ask for his most tendercut and tell him what you want it for.

Kev, reckon the name gives it away "Fillet of beef Wellington" never seen it called anything else and if I did would run a mile

It's like a foreign language on here sometimes...

Posh innit! . When i was a lad we were lucky to get water!

Not so sure of that Bill. https://www.google.es/search?q=beef+wellington&oq=beef+wellington&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i61j69i60j69i59l2.3871j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8