@Huma0
I won't say I am a devotee of Aldi but they certainly have good meat. Their eye fillet of steak, if you careess it and take care of it in the cooking process can be the most rewarding piece of steer you will ever eat.
My first experience with it was served by a friend of ours one evening and she nutured this piece of steak from the shopping trolley to the dining table and it was spectacularly good. It just fell apart to the touch of a knife and had that lovely taste that only grain fed beef has.
Two weeks after that another friend of ours proudly announced we would be dining on Aldi fillett steak, and my heart soared. I don't have a 40 inch waistline for nothing you know!!
Well, bloody hell, she proceeded to chop it into pieces and I think cooked it on the barbie until it ran out of gas.......it was bordering on, indigestible. How could the same piece of meat end up being so devistatingly different?
I intend to serve this very cut on Australia Day and I do believe that you need a dry run or two to get the process spot on. I was going to do it last night but bloody pesky guests got in the way! We sat under the market umbrella until 11.45 pm and by that time my stomach would not have detected the difference between a fine piece of meat and a dog dropping so I just hacked a bit of ham off the bone and made that do.
No repeat tonight, barbie is ready to go, fillet has been oiled and well seasoned, It is not a large one only going just 1.4 Kg so I will give it 25 minutes and let it rest wrapped in foil and half of yesterdays newspaper for 15 minutes....and hopefully we will have a delight to compare with 'Maxims'!!
Huma, I really do love my cooking, it is something that really does reward you.
Cheers......Rob