My friend Linda just send me this link to Summer Tomato, a wonderful fresh food blog from San Francisco. This is one happy Sunday (or Sinday, as some folks have started to call it in FaceBook)! I love blogs from foodies who care about what and how you eat, and HOW MUCH IT COSTS!! Summer Tomato scores high on all counts. Holy crap!
My son arrived from Iowa a month ago, where he had worked for a grocery store on and off (5 years off for the Navy) since he was 14 years old. His jaw DROPPED the first time we took him to Whole Foods. For a treat, I bought a wonderful little rack of lamb--8 wee chops from New Zealand--for $19.95 a pound! He couldn't believe it. I could. I adore those racks of lamb with the itty bitty chops. I baste them with a recipe my then husband got from the man who owned the motel in Dickinson, ND. He got the recipe from his grandmother, who grew up 40 miles from Jerusalem. Basically, it's equal amounts of lemon juice, honey, oil, and garlic blended till it's creamy. You brush it on the lamb, and expose it to the heat (either a rotisserie or grill or frying pan or roasting pan) until you think it's done. (You can tell....trust yourself!) When it smells divine and looks like it's cooked, separate the little chops and bathe them with the rest of the lemon-oil-honey-garlic sauce, and, well, enjoy!! Goddess....this is one divine dish!!
My mouth is watering!
ReplyDeletemine, too! you like rack of lamb? when's your birthday?
ReplyDeleteLamb was always served with mint sauce and/or red currant jelly in my home. But I haven't cooked or tasted lamb for years.... perhaps it's time to check out what's available in the grocery store. And maybe use your recipe....
ReplyDeleteperhaps we should forget the lamb and just lick the sauce....
ReplyDeleteOh those two words together: Summer Tomatoes! It's cool and grey here; summer seems very far away.
ReplyDeleteI use basically the same ingredients in my sauce for pork chops!!! Great minds and all that!!! Lamb is just too outrageous around here.
ReplyDeleteShammy....it really is good with lamb....even my little kids loved it. we'd give them a little cup of the sauce, and they could dip their pieces of lamb in it. who knew?
ReplyDeleteEllen....hang on....it's already starting to get lighter later in the day. i remember living 40 miles from Boston the first year I was married. Grey and cool indeed!
Kay: lamb at Whole Foods is $19.95 a pound, but Giant and Safeway have it for less than half of that. I have it for special occasions. And it's grass-fed!
Gosh that sounds sooo yummy. I'm drooling.
ReplyDeleteHad lamb only once a few years ago and really liked it, but since had forgotten all about it. Have copied your recipe and may have to find myself some little New Zealand lamb chops. Recall my Mom saying my Dad asserted he didn't like or ever want lamb. She served him lamb chops one day and he ate several, enthusiastically returning for seconds. Thinking he had learned how good they were, she then told him what they were. He refused to ever eat any lamb again.
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