Beef Wellington

[rubberduck]

Hi

It's my turn to cook for my housemates and have decided to do something a bit different in cooking a beef wellington...

Have looked at a few recipes and it seems quite straight forward... Will need about 1kg of trimmed beef fillet so will be paying a trip to all the butchers at Leeds market tomorrow.... 1 question. what would be a good price to pay for the meat? I like a haggle!

 

[Azagoth]

I'd reckon around the £10-£15 /lb mark for a decent cut.

It's the Foie Gras that's going to be the expensive luxury.

 

[alexakasloth]

Fillet of beef is one of the most expensive, around £25+ a kilo iirc.

 

[Jonny69]

What cut you going for? Rib eye works well for Wellington

 

[MajorMaccas]

I work on the butchery at tesco, I think only ribeye is more expensive than fillet.

You can get either normal english/british fillet, or the Scottish fillet that you can cut with your fork

Scottish is £35/kg tho, so depends how special you want the meal to be

 

[Biohazard]

or the Scottish fillet that you can cut with your fork

Scottish is £35/kg tho, so depends how special you want the meal to be

Our beef is best.

Remove those rolleyes. Scottish meat is no more expensive than any other up here!

 

[Makunouchi]

Lots of people have diferent ideas of what beef wellington is for some reason.

My idea of what it should be is a cylinder of beef, coated in pate, wrapped in spinich leaves, and then the pastry.

DO other people have it with or without the spinich? or pate?

 

[Azagoth]

Some people place pancakes inside of the pastry too.

 

[Jonny69]

DO other people have it with or without the spinich? or pate?

Never had it with spinach leaves. SWMBO's mum put mushrooms in it at Christmas. Gah, I swear she's trying to kill me

 

[alexakasloth]

SWMBO's???

 

[Haircut]

She Who Must Be Obeyed

 

[Jonny69]

You got it

Edit: Damnit I'm using a Burger King slogan in a discussion about quality food

 

[Wicksta]

Here is a recipe I've used that worked really well:

http://www.waitrose.com/recipe/Beef_Wellington.aspx

The only problem is that my missus doesn't like any pink in her meat (she's ok the other way round ) so it means I have to chuck hers back in the oven until it's well done, which I find annoying!

 

[Fr0dders]

watch the master at work

heres how its done.

 

[Jingo...]

The only problem is that my missus doesn't like any pink in her meat (she's ok the other way round )

Quote of the day!!

 

[gord]

Quote of the day!!

+1 to that

and the Gordon Ramsay version looks lush..

ive never tried to cook it but it doesnt look too hard..

 

[jellybeard999]

Everyone should be forced to eat meat medium rare tbh... its awful once its gone past medium