The elaborate dinner offerings generally included caviar and other delicacies, cold salads, grilled and sauted fish, sirloin steaks and filet mignon, lamb chops, and the like.
It is one of the most tender beef muscles and is said to be white-tablecloth quality, being a similar quality to filet mignon, but less expensive.
When sliced along the short dimension, creating roughly round cuts, and tube cuts, the cuts (fillets) from the small forward end are considered to be filet mignon.
High heat is the usual method for cooking the filet mignon, either grilling, pan frying, broiling, or roasting.
The average steer or heifer provides no more than 500 grams of filet mignon.
You can take a cowpie and call it filet mignon, but somebodys going to catch on during dinner.
One also may find filet mignon in stores already cut into portions and wrapped with bacon.
We'd be frying up filet mignon and ham steaks every night.