Leg of luscious

[e_moon60]

We had many frozen lumps of lamb in our freezer, thanks to the demise of Woolly a few weeks ago.  I started small, with a four-rib little roast.  Oh...oh...oh.   So then another, and another.   But today, for some reason, I felt compelled to seek out a leg and try a leg of lamb roast.

One thing I forgot to do, in the heat of stuffing hunks of

Comments

[bunny_m]

Damn, now you've made me hungry for lamb. ;9

Good to hear that Woolly's sacrifice was for a good cause. It seems it was a very good cause indeed. Organic meat is so much better, and even better when you know the person that raised the lamb themselves.

*goes off to find a snack*

[birdhousefrog]

Unfortunately, mutton has a stronger taste than lamb. Sounds like it was quite a treat. And those sheep are relatively easy to raise, though their grazing habits aren't the same as the bovine. I think they crop the grass closer to the ground which can create issues with some grasses.

[hugh_mannity]

My favorite thing to do to a leg of lamb is to stab it in a couple of dozen places with a paring knife then insert slivers of garlic (about 1/2 - 1/4 clove size) into each stab wound. Then roast as normal.

Usually I'll roast it on a bed of parboiled root veggies (potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, et al.) so that the veggies absorb the drippings and are crispy and caramelized.

Traditionally at Easter, I'll serve it with minted boiled new potatoes and peas.

Either mint jelly or red currant jelly make a nice tart counterpoint to the meat.

(dammitall, I'm drooling all over the keyboard now and jonesing for roast lamb and all I've got to look forward to tonight is venison stew. *sigh* Life is so hard!)

[pgranzeau]

What??? No mint jelly???

[technoshaman]

Actually, one of my favorite lamb condiments is mint malted vinegar. If it needs much of anything atall... the little sirloin chops I had recently I simply baked with my traditional grilling mix (garlic salt and fresh-ground black pepper) and, once I plated it and had a chunk, I daren't do anything else to it lest I spoil the flavour. MMMMMMMM.

[nlbarber]

This showed up on my friends page right below a Tigers and Strawberries blog on Lamb Shahi Korma, which looks luscious but so complex that I'll never tackle it. But between the two of you, I suspect I'll be eating lamb in some form very soon!