Lamb shanks

[chickenfeet]

I've just put a big pot of lamb shanks in the oven. One of the butchers at the market this morning had local(1) lamb for a very good price so I bought half a dozen shanks. I'm cooking them using Jamie Oliver's recipe for slow cooked spiced lamb shanks, which is excellent. I love lamb. When and where I grew up it was much cheaper than beef so we ate it a lot. Due to absurd subsidies to the cow industry, it's not so relatively cheap but I still grock it. I've never understand the common Merkan aversion to sheep meat. Any way, it's one of those dishes that's probably even better if left to develop overnight so it will be dinner tomorrow. Tonight we shall feast on squid, another favourite. Also I have lamb kidneys which will be grilled with bacon for brunch tomorrow. lemur_catta is not sure if she likes lamb kidneys but (a) they may prove to be one of those things (long list) that she didn't like until she had them cooked properly or (b) more for me.

(1)As the ads say, 10,000 coyotes can't be wrong.

Comments

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm ... lamb! Also mutton.

i do like that lamb shanks are almost always affordable

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, lamb.

Boneless leg of lamb from Australia is only about $4/lb at Costco. Local California-raised lamb is about twice as much. Sometimes the world does not make sense.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

For once, today, it almost did. Fresh local shanks at the butcher were the same as frozen NZ ones at the big Chinese market.

[lnr]

We had a really nice shepherd's pie earlier this week. And often curry lamb chops. This week it's all beef (steak and mince) and chicken though. And pig products for breakfast (sossidge, bacon *and* black pudding).

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Yumm. I have started eating more lamb of late; I picked up the taste for it when I lived in Greece. The Greeks do love their lamb.
I've thought about doing Jamie Oliver's recipe, so thanks for the rec. I'm going to give it a try.

[ironed_orchid]

Lamb, yum.

Shanks are my favourite.