Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Lambsicles?
So Daughter was out with friends last weekend and that left my Bride and I alone. We’re still grappling with this impending Proto-Empty Nest Syndrome stuff, so I figured we’d best eat meat off of bones as therapy.
I picked up this lurvly rack of ribs
so we could have our nice dinner for two
two, not you
oh fine.
Anyhow, I cut between each one
and got 9 nice sized little morsels (plus some cleaned up trimmings for the Mooch)
then based on a recipe from Steven Raichlen I put them in a dish with some olive oil, salt, pepper, fresh rosemary, chunks’o’garlic and some capers and coated them with that
then added about a half inch of wine
covered the pan with saran wrap and shoved it in the fridge to marinate for an hour or so, flipping the pieces roughly every thirty minutes.
For the sauce I took 1 cup of Malbec
and put it in a sauce pan over medium-high heat to reduce
down to only about a 1/4 cup
then set the pan aside to come to room temperature (which didn’t take that long). in the meanwhile I got out a cup of Grey Poupon
and added the now-cooled reduced malbec to it
and mixed it up with a little pepper to taste
and set that aside in the fridge.
I got the grill cranked up and got the brussel sprouts going (but no mushrooms and less stock this time). Due to their thin size the marinated chops cooked very quickly and evenly, which was nice
and every thing plated up in a most yummy fashion.
The dijon/wine reduction made a very nice dipping sauce for the chops on the plate, and the buttery bacony sweetness of the brussel sprouts balanced things out in a most pleasing fashion. I was told I could make this again, which is high praise indeed at Chateau Bingley.
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September 14, 2011 7:28 am
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Do you do floors and windows too?
Not since I lost that little french maid outfit i used to wear.
Christmas is coming!
yummy…
oh, and don’t fret over the empty nest thing… they come home to roost more when they’re independent then when they actually live with you…
which is not a bad thing, by the way.
Tasty looking!
Claude looked a bit sheepish. I hope he didn’t overdo the mooching gig.
I feel you’re probably right, gregor!
Indeed, Ave, though I know you’re not so keen on the brussels…
You know how he gets, Jeff. He sulked the rest of the night because there really wasn’t much I could give him.
Not if my Bride and I had the impertinence to actually want some food, that is.
That looks so delicious. Yum.
Wam. Wibtickling!
I’ll just pick the bacon pieces out and leave the sprouts behind and no one will ever notice.
Love that Claude. He’s so debonair. Surely you found a little morsel of lamb to give him?
Wow. That looks so good I think I’ll faint!
Following your recipe for both lambsicles and sprouts as we watch football.Thanks for the recipes…..