Easter Dinner

[msmemory_archive]

The default thing is roast leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary, scalloped potatoes, and asparagus. Hmmm... same old, or something different...?

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[kimberlycreates.livejournal.com]

When we were living "high on the hog" we used to go over to my husband's business partner's house and have crab legs and filet mignon for our big celebrations. :)

[dsrtao]

Tabâhajah instead of ordinary roast lamb. Keep the rest, unless you see some particularly fat looking green beans out there...

[dsrtao]

(did I really just call your wonderful roast lamb /ordinary/?) sheesh. Hit me.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Smack!
So what's Tabahajah?

[dsrtao]

Spiced lamb over fried onions. It's in the Miscellany.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I can just barely conceive of having had that meal often enough to be bored with it, but it strains my credulity. But then, Roast Lamb is my favorite meat, especially with lots of garlic.

[siderea]

Ditto! (Well, I have other favorite meets, but roast lamb is pretty darn good.)

[tpau]

got a recipe for those of us for whom potatoes are the only form of carbs this week? :)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I don't know of a recipe for scalloped potatoes that doesn't use flour in the sauce!

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

But (she says, responding to her own comment) I don't know why you couldn't use matzoh flour instead of ordinary flour, if that would appease the rebbes.
In which case, Google on "scalloped potatoes" -- they all say pretty much the same things.

[tpau]

what about the lamb? :)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Take a nice piece of lamb. Smear liberally with chopped garlic, and/or insert slivers of garlic into slits in the meat. Sprinkle with leaves of fresh rosemary. Roast. (For time/temperature numbers, see JOY OF COOKING or other standard cookbook.)

If it's boneless leg of lamb, I will usually take off the net that confines the meat, and tie it up with just a piece or two of cotton twine before roasting. Then I don't loose all the garlicky crust when I take off the net.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Depends on how long ago you last had roast lamb, as compared to how long it has been since you've had some other delicacy.

I tend to avoid lamb, but not due to any lack of love for the delicious stuff. I tend to avoid it because it is in my experience terribly difficult to use well as leftovers. When you're only feeding two people, a hunk of lamb big enough to roast properly will leave you with lots of levftovers.

So, on holidays, I tend to lean towards birds (duck, goose, and turkey), which lend themselves more to recycling.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

When I have leftover lamb, I make Lamb Vindaloo. When jducoeur has leftover lamb, he makes Fidaush . Thus, I have to buy enough lamb so that each of us gets some left over.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

my bad. Link for Fidaush does not have a trailing L. (.htm)

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

*very silly*

Fried Chicken!

Hmm. Game Hens with Angel Hair Pasta and fresh corn/peas?

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Make good mashed potatoes (ie, not boiled, and don't whip them. I usually microwave.) Don't put in the cream and butter yet. Then plaster them *all over* the lamb. Roast as usual. Eventually, they'll fall off the lamb on the bottom, and the ones on the top will get nice & brown, and they'll all be yummy lamb flavored.

Incidentally, a church near here has a big sign up that says

WORSHIP THE LAMB

... not "the lamb of God," mind you, just, presumably (by the grammar), any lamb. I thought that went out with Baal?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I thought that went out with Baal?

Baal isn't out, he's in! OK, so, he's mostly playing heavies in video games these days, but his mindshare is way up compared to the last millenium.

Easter Bunny

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

Roast rabbit seems appropriate... ...with chocolate eggs around it.