Had half a leg of lamb (without bones) in the freezer and decided that would make for a nice dinner today.

After defrosting the meat I washed it and dabbed it clean with a paper towel. Spiked it with garlic, seasoned it with salt and pepper and seared it in concentrated butter from all sides. Added diced carrots, celery root, onions and a slice of bacon and roasted everything together gently for a minute or two. Added rosemary and thyme to the meat, added some red whine and broth and put it in the oven for an hour. Added a couple of halved potatoes (seasoned with salt, pepper and rosemary) and let everything stew for another hour.


Absolutely yummy!

Oh, and there's still quite a bit left of it...

I am sorry sir but you cannot have a dinner thread without delicious pictures!

Wow Para Very nice. Are you related to Wolfgang Puck?

Well, it does taste better than it looks due to my crappy photo skills and the best parts are already eaten but here ya go...

The poor little innocent lamb.

I love lamb and especially the vindaloo variety.

You can say that about every animal you'll ever eat

Looks great Para!

Agh, someone took the bait.

Hey some people really believe that malarky, I only hope they're vegan.

Steak I hope.

Right now my two inexpensive top sirloin steaks are marinating in a ready-made Lea&Perrin's Roasted Garlic Balsamic sauce. I was going to heat that in a pan of olive oil tonight, but Para_Bellum's post changed it to butter instead.

My two sides will be a baked potato and some southern style baked beans. To chase it through my upper and lower GI a little more efficiently, I'll have a spinach and bacon salad.

I had two snacks all day so I will be quite hungry in a couple of hours!

Now, to go conquer some more territory in Total War Rome 2! After that some FIFA 15.

I used to cook everything with real butter, not margarine.

Then the doctor says my cholesterol and other things were too high so I have been cooking with olive oil ever since but some food don't taste as good as they did when they were cooked with butter.

I use olive oil a lot but for some things like roasting meat you can't beat concentrated butter.

Aw, that's nothing. Last night we had fish with hush puppies. Hush puppies!

You ate shoes? How did you get rid of the toughness?

You boil em like the did at Valley Forge! We Americans know how to cook a shoe thank you very much.

The food on this thread looks and sounds delicious!

While my father and I worked on the house all day he had his smoker going, it had a hickory citrusy smell to it. He just pulled out a pork loin and a turkey stuffed with kumquats (from his tree)...



Old folk know what they're doing.

Try adding some flax oil, after it's cooked.
It should bring back some of that richness,
though it won't have quite the same flavour.
And it's even healthier for you. Just avoid the
brand X store-brand varieties that taste like
brass.

kumquats?