Pasta with lamb, with a vaguely Milanese sauce
4# lamb chops
2 cups chianti
2 cups diced* onion
2 cups diced* celery
2 cups diced* carrot
(add diced bell peppers, mushrooms, hearts of palm, whatever)
*small dice, say 1/4inch a side, tops
4 to 8 cups diced tomatoes, canned is fine. How
much do you like tomatoes?
8 to 16 oz tomato paste
1.5 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp beef base
1 tbsp chicken base
1/2 to 3/4 lb pasta of choice
water
olive oil
salt
rosemary
thyme
oregano
black pepper
hot pepper
honey (I’m not kidding!)
parmesan cheese
I use Mrs. Dash a lot
eh, whatever
time (about 1.5 - 2 hours)
1 large, heavy skillet
1 deep baking pan, large enough to hold all ingredients combined.
1 sauce pan for a all liquid and vegetable ingredients.
1 slotted spoon
1 pair kitchen tongs
1 cooling rack
Wash and pat dry the lamb chops quite dry. Place in fridge on plate.
Preheat the oven to 375degF.
Put the tomatoes and paste to simmer in the sauce pan.
Pat the chops quite dry again. Dry like the Mojave, or you’ll regret it.
Drop oven temp to 350degF.
Put oil to cover the bottom of the skillet, and
bring just to smoking. Then add the chops slowly with tongs. Turn them to brown heavily on all sides. Do in two batches if you need to, keep the oil hot.
Place browned chops into the baking pan with the bones standing. Place this into the oven foil covered. Brown the next batch of chops if you need to.
Oil the skillet again. Brown the carrots, onions, and celery a bit. Once browned, add the chianti.
Bring to a simmer, then add to the sauce pan. Add spices to taste and remaining ingredients.
Once it has simmered for about 15 minutes and you are confident of your seasoning, remove the baking pan from the oven and rack it.
Ladle the sauce over the chops, filling the baking pan. Place it back into the oven, uncovered.
Let cook at least one hour, 2 might be better—depends on the stringyness of your lamb, mine was fine in around 1 hr 30 min.
Cook the pasta in the usual way.
This serves around 4 quite well, and the leftover sauce will be even better the next day.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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Written By:
Tom Perkins
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We’re going to a Society For Creative Anachronism event on Friday. And my food-allergic baby won’t stop throwing up. I blame my husband, who was watching the kids yesterday. He cooks everything the baby’s allergic to when I’m not looking. He thinks it has no effect as long as he doesn’t feed the baby the offending food, but I suspect the utensil contamination makes a difference.
That recipe sounds great, I’d have to make it with rice pasta though. Food allergies... |
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Because they, too, draw hot chicks... |
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And that’s the trouble with cooking. It tends to draw chicks who are or will be...
...well rounded.
May God take my soul into his care should my wife read this, we’ve 2.5 months to go on kid #2, and she’s a leetle bit emotional at times.
She would see no humor in the truth of the above, and assume a general rule applied particularly to her.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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"More cushion for the pushin’", and all that...
Just don’t make any cow jokes around her Tom, and you should be safe... |
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And that’s the trouble with cooking. It tends to draw chicks who are or will be...
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