This is an adaptation of another recipe from Georgina Haydne’s cookbook Greekish: Everyday recipes with Greek roots. It was an opportunity to use my mint patch one more time before the cold weather does it in for the season. This takes about an hour and will make 6 servings ½ bunch of fresh mint 3 Read More …
Pastitsio is a classic which is like a Greek version of lasagna. I spotted a simplified one-pot version of it in Georgina Hayden’s cookbook Greekish: Everyday recipes with Greek roots. In Greece it is made with a long tubular pasta which is also called pastitsio, which is like the Italian pasta bucatini, but with a Read More …
The name of dish from Damascus is “kebab from India” because it originated years ago from an Indian family which settled in Syria. It is actually flattened lamb koftas in a tomato sauce. This version is adapted from Imad’s Syrian Kitchen. It will make 4 servings, but the photo shows a 11 x 7 inch Read More …
This popular way of eating hummus with lamb is from Damascus, and is adapted from Imad’s Syrian Kitchen. It makes 4 meze servings or 2-3 main course servings, both with khubz or pita breads. It takes about half an hour to make the topping for the hummus. The recipe calls for Baharat, a Syrian spice Read More …
Carol frequently orders lamb shanks when they are available at a restaurant, so when I saw some at Kroger’s I bought them and made this dish, based on a recipe in Molly Stevens’ book All About Braising. The 2 lamb shanks were about 3 lbs. total, and I cut the meat off the bones after Read More …
Since we went to Turkey last year, I have kept my eyes open for interesting Turkish recipes and spotted one in The Guardian which seemed promising, and was in fact very good. It consists of a spicy lamb stew on top of a creamy and garlicky base of roasted eggplant and yogurt. This will make Read More …
A popular Turkish kebab is made from ground lamb. This version is based on a recipe in Turkish Delights. I found that it did not stick together well on our Turkish skewers, so I grilled it with out them. It had a tendency to stick to the grill. Possibly I should have chopped it more Read More …
Hummus can be more than a dip eaten by itself with bread. This recipe illustrates this point and is adapted from On the Hummus Route: A Journey Between Cities, People, and Dreams. It combines an Aleppo-style hummus with pan-fried lamb seasoned with Aleppo pepper. It made a nice main course last night with fresh pitas. Read More …
A recipe appeared in Saveur magazine in 2016 from the Mikla restaurant in Istanbul which had lamb shanks in a red wine sauce accompanied by a béchamel sauce with roasted eggplant. I made this dish last night as shown in the photograph. My conclusion was that the lamb shanks in the wine sauce was very Read More …
Popular in the colonial era, making hams from a leg of lamb fell out of favor, so much that I had never heard of such a thing. An article in NPR discussed a revival of lamb ham, and mentioned that the well-known Edwards Smokehouse in Surrey has started making country hams from lamb. This Read More …