A whole Monday at home with nothing on the calendar.  I've been into my beading kit, made a batch of lamb stew, did laundry, read some... lots of things that I haven't gotten to in a long time.  Same as opening up this box and typing in it.  But I had to write about today's lamb stew.  I've made lamb stew many times but never with a recipe.  Then ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed:
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Decided to pull the rest of the lamb from the freezer and try making another red curry with it. Started with oil, onion, fresh celery leaves, garlic, got that all good and hot. Threw in meat, potato, carrot, salt & pepper, got that hot. Added cinnamon, bere bere chile, cumin and turmeric, and some more coconut oil to get the spices thoroughly ( Read more... )

As you may guess from teh title and the sloppyt typing, my pointer finger is heavily bandaged. I had leftover leg of lamb from the 4th of July and carved off the rest of the meat. Thenn I simmered the bone, and pulled off the last few slivers of meat. The bone went to C's wolf dog. The slivers were simmered down to just meat and fat, then I ( Read more... )