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Topic Started: Oct 28 2016, 01:19 PM (265 Views)
Mikhailoh
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It's Friday night! What's for dinner?

Here at Chez Mik we are going Provence in Autumn with lamb shanks braised in red wine, rosemary and carmelized onions. It is an old favorite of mine from many years past. I think it is in the recipe thread and will look it up. Ah, yes - there it is...

Probably serve it over grits polenta with a green salad and a Cotes Du Rhone.


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By a great American chef, Bert Greene. He sadly died before the age of the celebrity chef and was a whole lot better at it than most of the Food Network personalities.



LAMB SHANKS PROVENCALE

3 tablespoons flour

Salt

Paprika

4 (1-pound) lamb shanks

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons oil

1 large onion, thinly sliced

3/4 cup red wine

1 1/4 cups water

1/4 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary or dried rosemary

Freshly ground black pepper

Fresh parsley, chopped

Combine 1 tablespoon of flour with salt and paprika to taste and lightly dust shanks. Heat butter and oil in deep, heavy saucepan until hot. Brown shanks on all sides.

Remove from pan and lightly brown onion in pan. Return meat to pan. Add red wine, 3/4 cup water and rosemary. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook in 375-degree oven until meat is easily pierced with fork, about 2 hours.

Take lamb shanks out of juices, blend remaining flour with 1/2 cup cold water. Add it to pan juices, stirring over heat until gravy thickens and comes to boil. Simmer 2 to 3 minutes, then strain.

Serve shanks garnished with parsley. Pass gravy separately. Makes 4 servings.


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George K
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Ah. I was gonna make brats tonight, but since Mrs. G is going to a class tonight (don't ask), I decided we're ordering in.

From Portillo's.

For me, Maxwell Street Polish.

She's having a Chicago Dog.

It'll be just fine.

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Mikhailoh
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Pole dancing? The class I mean.
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Mikhailoh
Oct 28 2016, 01:26 PM
Pole dancing? The class I mean.
I'll never tell. :angel:
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Cough syrup, green tea.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
My wife is cooking tonight.

She's making a traditional Philippines dish...

Meatloaf......
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Oct 28 2016, 01:44 PM
Cough syrup, green tea.

I can't top that one.

Fish, we're having fish.
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Spicy salmon and sautéed spinach.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Here's how she makes meatloaf...


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George K
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That looks good!

But...too much work.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
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Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
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Mikhailoh
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Does look good though. Meatloaf was my first inclination tonight but not enough eggs and we have the shanks in the freezer.
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This cabbage-sausage-tomato thing, and an orange.
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Minestrone soup.
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Geaux Tigers!
BTW, I used to work with a bunch of Filipinos, including 7 sisters (but that's another story). One of things they would occasionally bring to a potluck is a bread called siopao. That's some good stuff.

And their version of an eggroll is the best on the planet...
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Jolly
Oct 28 2016, 02:35 PM
And their version of an eggroll is the best on the planet...
:uparrow: Yes.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Great dinner. Had an little Bordeaux that was probably the best value in years - 2014 Tour Luchey. Lovely wine for $12.

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After souping it up for supper, we'uns procured from our wine cellar (the right bottom crisper in the frig) a bottle of recent vintage wine. Very recent vintage. Like, bottled a couple of weeks ago. Plenty of time for this fine wine to age gracefully in the bottle.

Since presentation is everything, I made Ma wait until I put some jeans on and grabbed a dish rag to wipe off the top of the bottle...I don't mind drinking in my underwear, but Ma has a true sense of proprieties. Anyway, after attiring myself in a manner better befitting the occasion, I unscrewed the lid from the bottle and let Ma sniff and approve. Imagine her delight at sampling one of the newer products of this fine winery:

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I can honestly say it reeks of the essence of Coppertone and brought back many memories of nubile young female bodies toasting in the sunshine of Panama Beach. I certainly wish it had been available back then, because what could be better than a tropical-flavored apple wine to get a 100 pound girl drunk on her arse? As in I-don't-care-whose-name-you'll-be-screaming-later-as-long-as-you-don't-remember-mine sex.

Wafting is one thing, taste is another. And that's where this blue nectar of the Gods truly delivers. It actually does taste like coconut tanning lotion! The kind like you'd lick off your girlfriend's neck, mingled with a bit of sweat and just a hint of that metallic green ring on her neck from that cheap silver chain you gave her. I think it would be at its best when paired with a Taco Bell Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos Supreme, hold the ptomaine.

A true bargain at $2.99/bottle (unless you have a coupon), I'll give it two dead possums!

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Damn. There was a time when I drank one hell of a lot of Boones Farm.

I had no idea they were still in business.

Do they still make Spanada?
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
POSSUM!!!!!

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Mikhailoh
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Jolly
Oct 28 2016, 07:37 PM
After souping it up for supper, we'uns procured from our wine cellar (the right bottom crisper in the frig) a bottle of recent vintage wine. Very recent vintage. Like, bottled a couple of weeks ago. Plenty of time for this fine wine to age gracefully in the bottle.

Since presentation is everything, I made Ma wait until I put some jeans on and grabbed a dish rag to wipe off the top of the bottle...I don't mind drinking in my underwear, but Ma has a true sense of proprieties. Anyway, after attiring myself in a manner better befitting the occasion, I unscrewed the lid from the bottle and let Ma sniff and approve. Imagine her delight at sampling one of the newer products of this fine winery:

Posted Image

I can honestly say it reeks of the essence of Coppertone and brought back many memories of nubile young female bodies toasting in the sunshine of Panama Beach. I certainly wish it had been available back then, because what could be better than a tropical-flavored apple wine to get a 100 pound girl drunk on her arse? As in I-don't-care-whose-name-you'll-be-screaming-later-as-long-as-you-don't-remember-mine sex.

Wafting is one thing, taste is another. And that's where this blue nectar of the Gods truly delivers. It actually does taste like coconut tanning lotion! The kind like you'd lick off your girlfriend's neck, mingled with a bit of sweat and just a hint of that metallic green ring on her neck from that cheap silver chain you gave her. I think it would be at its best when paired with a Taco Bell Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos Supreme, hold the ptomaine.

A true bargain at $2.99/bottle (unless you have a coupon), I'll give it two dead possums!

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Did you HAVE to make it the blue stufff? Really? :lol2:
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Jolly
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Yep. Mandatory.

The original strawberry is almost drinkable in a kool-aid kinda way. I don't know how anybody suffers through the blue stuff...
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We drank their apple and strawberry growing up. Also Bali Hai which is essentially alcoholic Koolaid and a powerful emetic.
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