Topic: Some musings on roast lamb

[Peripatetic Phil]

Mr Waitrose had reduced the price of whole Welsh shoulders of lamb from

[Garp]

I so enjoy your musings, Phil.

I have to agree that mint sauce, with lamb, is so wrong. Then again, I don't like apple sauce with pork or cranberry sauce with turkey.

Fruit and meat don't go - not that mint is a fruit

[Gav Iscon]

Whilst I will have mint sauce with my lamb and probably because I quite like it when it gets in the gravy with the accompanying veg, its usually mint jelly in our house or redcurrant if  we have some in. For me its similar to cranberries and turkey (which I do like reading Garps reply above). When we have the works xmas dinner, which for me is my biggest audience I can watch eating xmas dinner at one table, there's only about 4 who have the cranberry sauce with the rest of them (at least 10) diving for the cupboard and getting out the mint sauce  .

On a side note I'll have to try the roasties    and my mother always used to do a dollop of marmalade with her sausages.

A sprinkle of semolina on your roasties before cooking adds an extra crispness as well

And on another side note it would be probably a good thing if we had a no-reply/ no comment sticky special offers thread with the no-reply/no-comment bit being especially important.

[Gav Iscon]

Fruit and meat don't go

Give yourself a slap man.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[LouP]

I am partial to a bit of mint but when I have it with Lamb I only use it on my peas and mash. I like a bit of cranberry sauce with any roast but only a smidge, as I hate sweet/ savoury dishes.

Sounds like you ate like a king this weekend though crispy roasties are a must. I always pre boil, shake, add hot oil, hil oven and a bit of salt= winner!

I wanted to do a roast but I had some tikka marinating since Friday that needed using and so I made that for the kids and did a precooked (earlier today) madras for me and the hubby. Only fail was that I only had 3 H4ppy naan dough balls left and 3 naans into 4 people didnt go so everyone is looking forward to batch number 3

[Gav Iscon]

And I'll just like to add (now I've had 2 bottles of wine and a couple of hobgoblin) that me and the light of my life don't shop together as we are at opposite ends of the cookery book shelf. So last year on an errand to her usual Sainsburys, I came across the the bargain sell off cooler bit. In it were some substantial bits of rolled pork shoulder (about 7 bits) for

[Peripatetic Phil]

I came across the the bargain sell off cooler bit. In it were some substantial bits of rolled pork shoulder (about 7 bits) for

[Peripatetic Phil]

I hate sweet/ savoury dishes.

Not even duck a l'orange or roast duck Montmorency, Lou ?
** Phil.

[Gav Iscon]

As my missus always says 'snooze you lose'

And that Donald Russel's meat looks lush

[Gav Iscon]

I hate sweet/ savoury dishes.

Not even duck a l'orange or roast duck Montmorency, Lou ?
** Phil.

I was thinking boeuf bourguignon and coq au viin ...  hic

Well a 'sort of meat in a fruit juice' sort of dish