And some potatoes.
I spent the entire day in meetings in the big city. Trader Joe's had rack of lamb ready to glaze and cook. At a decent price. And cheap wine. After that kind of day, a long drive home and an evening of tornado warnings, it's time. HONEY GLAZED RACK OF LAMB, with red wine sauce.Oh great. . the tornado siren just went off. To the closet with a plate.
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Don't worry, our tornadoes are REALLY wimpy. Think roof damage, not Dorothy's house.
Honey Glazed Rack of Lamb - from 1997 Gourmet Magazine
For sauce
* 3 tablespoons butter
* 2 1/2 cups chopped onions
* 1 cup chopped carrot
* 2 cups canned beef broth
* 1 1/2 cups dry red wine
* 1 cup canned low-salt chicken broth
* 1 1/2 teaspoons tomato paste
* 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
* 1 1/2 tablespoons all purpose flour
For lamb
* 1/2 cup honey
* 3 tablespoons soy sauce
* 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
* 2 1 1/4-pound trimmed racks of lamb
Preparation
Make red wine sauce:
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and carrot and sauté until deep brown, about 12 minutes. Add beef broth and next 4 ingredients; boil 10 minutes to blend flavors.
Mix flour and 1 tablespoon butter to paste in bowl. Whisk into sauce. Simmer until sauce thickens, whisking occasionally, about 10 minutes. Strain. Set aside.
Make lamb:
Preheat oven to 400°F. Whisk honey, soy sauce and mustard in small bowl to blend; add 2 tablespoons glaze to sauce. Sprinkle lamb with salt and pepper. Place on baking sheet. Brush each rack with some of remaining glaze. Roast until thermometer inserted into center of lamb registers 130°F, brushing often with more glaze, about 35 minutes.
Rewarm sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Cut lamb between bones into chops. Serve chops with sauce.
It sounds delicious - and may ALL your tornadoes be wimpy!
That looks spectacular - thanks...
...and now the tornado sirens are going off here...crap.
To the bathroom in the center of the house...
I'll take snow up here in the Northeast over hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms that turn the sky black, and fire ants.
You midwesterners and southerners are tough cookies.
Mary had a little lamb,
a little beef, a little jam,
a little soda topped with fizz.
Oh, how sick our Mary is!
I forget where I read that. I'm saving that recipe, too. Mmm, baby animals.
I never cared much about tornadoes, myself, but it's a fatalistic thing: I spent my formative years in a trailer. There ain't no bathroom made that will keep you safe if you're in a mobile home. So I stuck it in the "Not my problem; God will handle it" file and got on with things.
And that's a big file.
Brigid,
Your recipes are too good. Stop tormenting me ;)
I'm glad it appears the tornado is wimpy and not headed for your home. I hope they stay wimpy and don't come close.
Looks delicious. Good to hear the storm passed without event.
How do you keep Barkley out of your food when you take shelter in the closet? :-)
Oh one more thing. Be careful you don't jinx yourself calling the twisters wimpy :-)
My Dad used to say that we'd never get hit by a tornado at the farm because we were in a depression surrounded by higher ground. A big storm April, '82 proved him wrong by throwing two at us.
"Off to the closet with a plate."
Don't forget the bottle. ;-)
"Off to the closet..." You ain't from here, are you? ;-) If you see one, /then/ you go to ground.
Mmmm....honey-glazed lamb.
We live 100 miles from the coast, and have waiting 60 years for the BIG ONE to give us a beachfront view.
If you are ever in central Cal go to the Woolgrowers in Los Banos, they know a little something about lamb.
Skip
That title was priceless.
You may send the new keyboard to...ME
When the tornado sirens go off here, I'm the crazy guy that goes outside.
Oh, that looks so delicious! Lamb is my favorite followed closely by veal. I guess I've always loved baby animals! ;)
Stay safe, I'm not sure whether you have the requisite ruby slippers to get you home.
Rob - I can read a radar pretty well, if it was something that was going to do more than knock over the yard gnomes I'd go to the neighbors basement. Last nights weather in my county was pretty weak, the ugly stuff was 15 miles away and moving away.
I'm with anon.
While I've done my share of kvetching about this lousy winter we've had, I'll take it over tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, floods, fire ants, scorpions, and locusts that seem to plague other areas...
And the lamb looks positively subline, Brigid. Not a huge fan, myself, but I'd have to have a portion of that just to be sure...
Stop it! I'm trying so hard to eat clean and then you post this . . . *drool*
Shootin' Buddy
The question is, of course, do you have coffee when you watch radar?
Jim
Yep, definitely gaining weight since I started reading this blog. But enjoying every recipe.
Mike
Do you get your lamb from a specialty butcher? I cannot remember the last time I saw lamb, or anything other than the usual beef/pork/chicken (seafood aside) in our local grocery stores.
We do have buffalo from time-to-time from a local source. Yes, there are buffalo herds in Missouri!
Of the two sheep related posts I've seen today, I prefer yours. This was the other (And I promise it's perfectly safe).
Mutton tends to be too greasy for me. Your picture is lovely, though.
Mary had a little lamb. It was after the corrida on Sunday. It was raining, but dry inside Botin's. The lamb was always good. There was wine. We drank and it was good.
The following morning with a headache I headed to the Guadarama mountains. The trail was hard. But that was good.
The lambs were gone. That was bad.
(Apologies to Papa.)
Thanks for the recipe!
Here in Northern Wisconsin we get some weird and intense weather, tornadoes, shear straight-line winds, the assortment of oddities. Often they're rare, but the ones that do roll through are usually quite impressive. We get about 5-6 a year.
When I built our house I built a nice sturdy room in the basement with 10" poured reinforced concrete walls. Whenever the weather turns real ugly, it seems that we're always getting ready to sit down to a fantastic meal... so we do as you do, load up the plates and burrow down amid our precious junk in that cozy room.
The radio plays the local chatter, we dine and enjoy the excitement. If it gets really hairy, we can pull out the motorcycle helmets and leather and throw them on too.
New codes mandated hurricane strips on all the trusses and rafters. I installed each of them myself and I use a big Stiletto titanium hammer with delightful fastening qualities. It's really a godsend if you happen to own old elbows...
Overbuild and you won't be disappointed.
Great dining to you and yours!
Randy in N. Wisconsin
Shootin Buddy - Sunday supper here, tall blond one has the details . :-)
I did say I'd try harder with the movie references ;)
Jim
(Feel free to delete this one)
The BBC show "Coupling" is one of the funniest things we've ever watched. This clip is obligatory:
"If you like animals, you'll love lamb."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUR__Ximp8
Sitting out the danger with a plate full of fine food, the ever-handy emergency light and the wind-up radio. Lady, y'all know how to LIVE!
Dude! (pardon the familiarity, or... laxity)
I love coming here. Pictures and thoughts, food and life. Wisdom is plainly noted. I had to stop by, finally. I think I am done pouting and am always hungry. This one caught me the most.
Hey! Be well.
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