Archive for the 'Lamb' Category
Cassoulet
Cassoulet is one of those dishes that has attained a somewhat mythical aura over the years and people are sometimes surprised or disappointed that there is no “authentic” single recipe for such an iconic dish, but rather that various people or regions have different versions of it. It is of course a dish of [...]
Read More..>>Jamie’s Lamb
Fred’s family came to visit on Saturday and we’d originally planned to barbecue a leg of lamb since we’d enjoyed it so much last time. Unfortunately, the weather let us down so we opted to cook Jamie’s lamb shoulder again. This time, as there were so many of us, we got to use [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops and Sauteed Potatoes
We seem to have had lamb rather often lately and in the interests of cooking varied meals, I should have chosen something else when I found myself in an indecisive mood in the butcher’s. But the new season spring lamb was too good to resist and I ended up leaving with two double loin [...]
Read More..>>Barbecued Lamb Leg
Because of the the brilliant weather we’ve had lately, we just had to barbecue. Recently a colleague was telling me about a leg of lamb that he had cooked on the barbecue and how good it was, so when Ginger suggested the same thing, it just had to be done.
We had a half leg [...]
Barbecue!
It was 20 degrees on Saturday so we thought it was about time we dusted off the barbecue and put it to work. We spent most of last week deciding what to cook but settled on lamb chops since they’re our favourite thing to eat from the barbecue. We marinated them in parsley, [...]
Read More..>>Spiced Lamb Shanks with Olives
Continuing our weekend of Spanish food, we cooked this dish from The Real Taste of Spain. It is a dish from Andalucia in southern Spain, influenced by the Moorish occupation centuries ago, hence its spicy flavours.
Luckily, we read the recipe yesterday and realised that the lamb shanks needed to be rubbed with the spice [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops with Garlic and Spinach Pilaf
This came from a recent edition of Delicious magazine and jumped out at me when I was looking through my recipe file for things to cook this week. Quite why I was so excited about it I’m not sure as the pilaf uses cumin and coriander which I’m not that keen on. Fred [...]
Read More..>>Harissa Lamb, Tabbouleh and Tzatziki
I’m not sure where the inspiration for this came from but last night’s Masterchef contestants worked in the kitchen of a Middle-Eastern restaurant so it may have been that.
I marinated the lamb pieces (from two leg steaks) in harissa for about an hour before assembling them on skewers and grilling them for about three minutes [...]
Slow-Roasted Shoulder of Lamb
Yesterday, we had decided that today we should have some roast lamb. We were in the market for half a leg of lamb when we arrived at our local butcher yesterday, but we ended up taking half a shoulder instead because there was one on display and we couldn’t remember having cooked shoulder before.
So [...]
Lamb Shanks with Dauphinoise Potatoes
While browsing some of my favourite food blogs last week, I came across Pixie’s post about lamb shanks. I really wanted to make them there and then as they looked so good but it was a school night and I knew Fred and I would want to eat as soon as we got home [...]
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