WEEK 41
Your Best Spring Lamb
This time of year, lamb -- traditional fare for both Easter and Passover celebrations -- is particularly prevalent at the dinner table. Whether it's a roast encrusted with herbs and garlic (maybe served with mint jelly), or a rack of lamb painted with Dijon, we want to know about your favorite spring preparation for lamb.
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Your Best Spring Lamb
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As suggested, we cut the garlic for larding the lamb into slivers -- much the same in size and shape as slivered almonds.
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Rosemary yields to Amanda's blade.
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Make sure to add salt and pepper!
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We were lucky to find some really beautiful anchovies.
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Amanda cut nearly 40 pockets into the surface of the lamb.
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And Merrill filled each one with a sliver of garlic and a slice of anchovy.
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Many hands...
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Some olive oil, and then a generous coating of herbs.
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We used slightly fewer than 24 cloves of garlic because some of ours were family size.
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Those pan juices will come in handy in a minute.
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Amanda uses her potato masher to crush the garlic cloves into the wine sauce. Don't worry if it's a but chunky when you're finished -- it will still be delicious.
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Your Best Spring Lamb
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Making the marinade -- first peppercorns.
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Then sugar and red wine.
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A cinnamon stick is dropped in.
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Coriander, cumin and cardamom.
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You simmer it for a few minutes.
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While it simmered, Merrill chopped ginger. Doesn't that leftover piece of ginger look like the Michelin Man, except he lost his pants.
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Once the marinade has simmered, you add the ginger along with some garlic, orange peel, mint and soy sauce.
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After marinating the lamb, you pat it dry.
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And season it -- enthusiastically!
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Turning a butterflied leg of lamb is a two-man job. Then again, we make everything a two-man job.
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Like transporting the meat from baking sheet to ....
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cutting board. Safe landing!
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