Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

man its been too long since I had some lamb. I prefer mine arabic or middle eastern style though to be honest.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

BIG difference in taste,between Aussie Lamb and American Lamb.We use to raise lamb.The Aussie stuff has a stronger taste

I love lamb and it's gamey taste. Best with just simple rosemary,salt pepper and olive oil mmmmm....now I want some lamb !

Originally Posted by gugi

We had a Russian specialty store for a short while, but it didn't last. Actually it was more Armenian, at least the owner was, and he stocked all kinds of eastern european stuff not only from Russia primarily shelf-stable kind. There were some pretty good things like various marinated mushrooms, sour cherries (not the american yellow-cherry type, but the good red sour species), various pepper/eggplant/tomato spreads... Some of it is available in the international section of the local Wegmans and Tops, but very little.

That's pretty exact to this place except the going out of biz part. In fact they are expanding their web site soon yay !. Russian Jewish owned and run but sells all sorts of good East Euro yummies. Their home made Pelmeni(dumplings) are superb and I can never leave the store without a snack from the deli which is almost always dried sausage of some sort and a bottle or can of Kvass(think young beer meets,rye bread and mildly sweet and very low alcohol) mmmmm!! Dammit you guys....every time I start gettin involved with this thread, I get hungry !!

Originally Posted by cosperryan

man its been too long since I had some lamb. I prefer mine arabic or middle eastern style though to be honest.

Lamb n Mutton,Mutton n Lamb it feeds the soul of the hungry man !...........Ta-da ! But it is awesome for sure.

I had a pretty terrible supper tonight. I worked an unusual shift for me and didn't bring a lunch so I ate at the cafeteria. Not much selection on a Sunday evening late so I chose a Sloppy Joe and mashed Potatoes. I was warned that the sloppy joe was hot but I like spicy things. That wasn't bad but OMG was it salty. I am glad that I had the bland potatoes to mix it with. I dang near threw it in the garbage and that is a big insult from me as I don't believe in throwing food away if it is edible, even if the taste is bad.

They usually do a good job and it is not a 5 star place so I don't expect perfect plating. But this was a loser!

Tim

Were it not for the salt, it doesn't sound like bad fare. Been a while since I did Sloppy Joe's.

Sloppy Joe's are to me a lot like sausage in the way that it is hard to make a "bad" one!

Some are a lot better than others but you almost have to try to make one that is truly AWFUL.

Originally Posted by 32t

Sloppy Joe's are to me a lot like sausage in the way that it is hard to make a "bad" one!

Some are a lot better than others but you almost have to try to make one that is truly AWFUL.

I will whole heartedly agree with you on that one.

No cooking, but still very tasty. Well, I peeled half of the zucchini, sliced it, topped it with the sundried tomatoes and goat cheese, unwrapped the cheeses and the pâté, sliced the apple and put the olives in the 'olive dish' - mise en place should qualify as a third of cooking

For you Lamb eaters Make some shashlik,is nothing finer
Shashlik (Russian Shish Kebabs) | The Domestic Man

Nah, that's not the best lamb, the best is the way it is traditionally cooked in my country once a year in the spring for St. George's day.
You kill it in the morning, clean it, stuff it with rice, fresh herbs just picked and some of the organs (lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines), then you sew it back, put it on a bed of sauerkraut and stick it along with 6-7 more in a preheated clay oven (these ovens are pretty big, hundred years ago each family of a typical size of 15-20 would bake bread once or twice a week) . Then the oven is sealed off with bricks and clay for the next 4-5 hours.
When you take the lamb out of there it's perfect - super crispy on the outside, the meat inside is moist and tender, the cabbage has cooked in the fat drippings and some of it it caramelized, the stuffing is extremely flavorful...
To me that's the perfect lamb

A whole lamb stuffed with Kidneys,Intestines,Liver and lungs,not for me man