Food Glorious Food!

[wildeabandon]

You know, I don't think I've talked about food on here for a while, at least not more than in passing. That can't possibly be right. Talk to me about food, people! Actually, I know, I can have a poll - not only will it allow me to indulge my curiosity, but I can use it for reference when you come to dinner.

[Poll #1161910]

And finally, if you're so inclined, give me your favourite recipes, tell me about wonderful meals or give me anecdotes about hilarious food mishaps.

Comments

[alcina2.livejournal.com]

A recipe that doesn't sound as if it is at all nice but is surprisingly wonderful. It is also the most tiem consuming and fiddly thing in the world:

1) Get a leg of lamb, a large one. Peel some garlic and cut each clove longways into about 3 strips. The get a long, thin knife and stab the leg of lamb. Insert one strip of garlic into the whole so it's completely hiddden. Repeat until the whole leg of lamb has had garlic added. This usually takes 1-2 bulbs of garlic in 100+ little holes.

2) Roast the leg of lamb as per usual.

3) Chop a massive pile of peeled mushrooms very fine 1-2 large supermarket containers full. This is very tedious and it's amazing how mush chooped mushrrom results; make sure you have a damn big bowl!

4) Put a LOT of butter (3 ounces or so) in a flying pan. Chop 3 shallots finely and fry lightly. Start adding the mushrooms. That huge heap of mushrooms WILL fit in the frying pan once cooked, as they shrink enormously. You will almost certainly need to add butter. Keep stirring all the time and don't turn the heat too high.

5) Put your mushroom mix to cool down. Ditto your leg of cooked lamb.

6) Put the leg of lamb so the side with most meat is uppermost. Cut several straight, deep cuts across, then pack each one with the mushroom-mix.

7) Grate half a pound of parmesan (just when you thought you'd done the tedious bits!). Melt 3 ounces of butter in a pan and then turn off the heat and mix in the parmesan to make a paste. Spread this paste over the lamb.

8) Return to the oven to brown the cheese mix slightly anhd heat the lamb up

Serve with the left over mushroom mix and some very bland vegs and carbs (plain boiled potatoes or mash is best) because the main is so rich you'll be sick otherwise.

Although this dish is a LOT of work, it has one brilliant advantage for dinner parties: it is essentially a ready meal. You have to do steps 6 and 7 while it is cool, and then put it in the oven to heat it up. This measn you can get it ready before your guests arrive and have no real work to do one they are here.

[alcina2.livejournal.com]

To answer your poll question about the best meal I ever ate, see this post http://alcina2.livejournal.com/223358.html?mode=reply for the details. The recipe above was the main meat course.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

Oh my - that does sound fabulous, and I shall definitely try the lamb recipe - it sound delicious.

I love cooking ridiculous multi-course meals. I don't think I'm going to go higher than ten again, as by that point it becomes almost impossible to eat, but I did manage 14 once. With veggie alternatives for all the meat and fish courses.