a bit off topic, on LAMB, including New Zealand Lamb, which we do get here

[Guest guest]

Lamb is lovely. And it has many advantages:

1) the meat itself, like pork, chicken and turkey,

is NOT marbled with fat, so if you do not want

the fat, you can just cut it off! This works well

for both large cuts and chops. If you want lean

ground lamb, check to see if you grocer's meat

department has it, and if not pick a lean piece

and have it ground; or just cut the lean meat off

a larger cut and run it through the food processor.

2) almost everyone likes lamb, once they have had

it appropriately cooked. We had friends in Michigan

when I was a kid who carried on about how they hated

lamb, and would never eat it, so my mother fixed them

the equivalents of lamb "filet mignon," with appropriate

accoutrements, and they never did catch on, and we

did not tell them--until about three years later!

3) my mother was convinced that if I, as a small child,

did NOT have one lamb chop at lunch each day, that

I might well succumb. So, each day, at home, I had:

a) one lamb chop; mint leavs and basil on top; c) the

best homemade sauce ever; d) baked potato or sweet

potato or carrots or some combination thereof; e) salad

with dark, leafy greens, and my mother's special dressing;

f) fresh raw, organic milk from my father's dairy; g) home

made flan, rather like creme brulee or creme anglaise.

This all happened because I was born with cystic fibrosis,

and my pediatrician had emphasized to our mother that

"nutrition may save the child's life." He just may have been

correct.

Mutton, or "senior citizen" lamb is from much older, more

experienced sheep, and is a whole different cooking and

eating experience, but one can remove most of the fat.

It does taste much stronger, and I suspect that most of

the myths and mutterings about lamb have come from

those who have heard about Mutton (mouton is sheep in

French) and not about lamb.

We are not orthodox and do not keep kosher so I could

bore you to pieces with the joys of pork eating ("the other

white meat"), as well, along with applesauce and cranberry

sauce recipes, raspberry, too!

This is what my being on Prednisone can do! Straaaaange!

Love to Akiba and to lamb and to all in our group,

n

[Guest guest]

I actually ate lamb for the first time just recently. It is good,

probably even better if one knows how to cook it. I just cooked it on

low heat till it was done...sounds better the way your mom gave it to

you...with all those sides.

Jolie