Cooking ideas for this evening

RossG

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It's my turn to cook for the family this evening apparently, and I am just looking for some tips from the OCUK chefs about how to make a meal a bit more interesting.
What I want to do is go pick up a few nice peices of lamb from the local butcher, and cook it with some home made roast potatoes in goose fat and some vegetables. However it sounds a bit boring to me. Is there any way I could make it a bit more interesting and flavoursome? Was thinking mainly about the vegetables. I'm no cooking expert by a long shot and was wondering if I could do the vegetables a bit more differently to make it a bit more flavoursome. I was thinking about making ratatouille, but I'm not too keen on aubergine and courgette to be honest. I do love tomatoes though to maybe we can try and work around that. Also any ideas on how to get the best from the lamb. Any suggestions?
 
Add an FAO:Jonny69 to the title mate. He is OcUK Master Chef.

Sometimes what sounds basic or boring can be fantastic! If you offered me lamb and roast taters with veg and some great gravy I'd eat the plate too :D
Maybe get some interesting drinks to accompany and enhance the meal?
 
Any particular type of gravy that would go well? We only really have beef gravy from oxo cubes in this household :p
Also, could a passing mod put FAO: Jonny69 in the title please? ^_^
 
If you're doing carrots, roast them with your potatoes, parsnips would be great too. Perhaps you could deglaze your roasting juices with some red wine before making a gravy. Failing that, make a lancashire hotpot. Easy to make and a good winter dish, check online for recipes.
 
Garlic + Rosemary.

If you're roasting the lamb you could cut some slits in it and put in a few whole cloves of garlic.

Add rosemary to the roast potatoes or the lamb.

Some good mint sauce.

Proper Gravy and a few more bits of veg peas/green beans.
 
elroberto said:
If you're doing carrots, roast them with your potatoes, parsnips would be great too. Perhaps you could deglaze your roasting juices with some red wine before making a gravy.
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Great shout there. Heed that advice.

If you want to add a few extra words to the menu, brush the parsnips with honey and think of what M&S food adverts would say. Then tell the diners what to look forward to.

Cabbage. Don't eat it yourself, only the diners. They will have extreme flatulence afterwards, a sign of appreciation in some cultures.
 
Cabbage is great

Red cabbage, red wine vinegar, red wine, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon. Optional apples

Or white cabbage stir fried with a couple of eggs cracked in and stirred round

Celeriac and apple gratin is also awesome and different

Roast butter nut squash is divine.

But as Azagoth says a decent stew or casserole with roast spuds, heaven..
 
Right then. Just been to Waitrose and gathered everything I need. Got a leg of lamb from the deli, some duck fat for the spuds, red cabbage, parsnip and some carrots.
Gonna roast the lamb with some garlic, roast the potatoes in duck fat with some fresh rosemary from the garden, roast the carrots with the potatoes, and roast the parsnip which will be brushed with some honey. Just put on the red cabbage with soem brown sugar in. Will add sherry and some cinnamon shortly before it's finished cooking. :D
 
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Hey I'm not around much these days, can't rely on me to reply on time :D

I cooked up a lamb steak a while back with ratatouille and potato rosti: Cooking with Jonny69: A big fat lamb chop

For ratatouille without aubergine or courgette you could just do chunky tomato, peppers onion and garlic fried up together with a tiny pinch of chilli, mixed herbs and plenty of black pepper :)
 
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