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Triumph of the Lamb (and Disaster of the Dish)

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on April 6, 2006
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Click here to view the videoDon’t roast it – braise it! That’s Lenny’s new mantra after discovering the pleasurable results of cooking less-than-choice cuts very slowly in a tasty stock or sauce.

It’s not really stewing - you carve the cooked joint or piece of meat as you would a roast, rather than chopping it up beforehand.

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This episode is also a lesson in the hidden perils of pyrex-style cookware. Well, if we’d just googled it beforehand, we would have known the risks of exposing it to a naked flame.

Lamb is available fairly cheaply where we live, so Lenny went on the hunt for value and got a boned-out shoulder for about six quid. She sent me hunting for “kitchen string” so she could roll it up, and I managed to scrounge a couple of metres from a butcher. I must say, she does a fine job of binding a very ordinary looking piece of meat into something that looks like “a bought one”. Continue reading ‘Triumph of the Lamb (and Disaster of the Dish)’

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Tajine or not tajine?

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on January 10, 2006
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Click here to view the videoThe festive season has come and gone, and yes, I know, I know, we sidestepped the whole issue of a Christmas episode.

Things were pretty hectic in the Crash Test Kitchen. We had 15 unruly expats and Brits over for Christmas dinner and we cooked two turkeys and a pork roast at once in our huge oven, along with a mountain of vegetables. Our freezer is now full of delightful soups - pea and ham, turkey, leek and ginger - that will keep us fuelled up well into the New Year.

Our MiniDV camera decided to see in the New Year by giving up the ghost, leaving us with no way to shoot episodes. After much heavy contemplation of the expense, followed by some serious comparison shopping, we’ve bought a new unit. So Crash Test Kitchen is back in business.

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Tajine, or our version of it, was one of our staples as we travelled across Canada in Gus the Bus last year. Continue reading ‘Tajine or not tajine?’

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Get some lamb in your pan

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on September 15, 2005
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Click here to view the videoMmm, lamb. We can’t get enough of it … after all, we come from the country that was built on the sheep’s back. No, we don’t mean the Shaky Isles (New Zealand), we mean the Wide Brown Land (Australia)!

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After gobbling down some excellent lamb at Les Freres de la Cote restaurant in Quebec City, we couldn’t wait to do a “Canadian Safari” episode featuring this meat. But Canucks by and large don’t seem to “get” lamb, and there’s very little produced locally. So we resorted to some Kiwi lamb racks sourced at a supermarket on Prince Edward Island. Continue reading ‘Get some lamb in your pan’

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