OT Lazy Cooking with Cat!

[Catdancer]

Real dried cranberries would be pretty tart. The ones in my salad were craisins....which are real dried cranberries, but sweetened.

[SuzE-Q]

Real dried cranberries would be pretty tart. The ones in my salad were craisins....which are real dried cranberries, but sweetened.

I have to try making that salad, it's making my mouth water now.

I put craisins and walnuts in spinach salads all the time, love them.

Will see if I can buy, or make, blackened salmon and some raspberry vinaigrette...have not tried that type yet.

Thanks!

[Virginia]

It probably was craisins and I am too dumb to know. I eat raspberry vinaigrette quite a lot Suze and really enjoy it.

[Virginia]

Just found a menu for Nantucket, the restaurant I went to Sunday night. It reads:

BLACKENED SALMON SALAD
Mixed garden greens tossed in raspberry vinaigrette with pine nuts. carrots, sweet cranberries, walnuts,
onions and feta cheese. Topped with blackened salmon.

[Catdancer]

Yeah, sweet cranberries would be craisens. The salad at my place has spinach as one of the greens. That adds a nice touch, too.

[stillstANNding]

Yum.

ANN

[Catdancer]

just found a recipe for raspberry vinaigrette that uses raspberry jam as it's base. I'm gonna try it before posting t...

[SalpalSally]

Slurp slobber!!!

[Howie]

Slurp slobber!!!

Sally, wipe that drool off your chin!!!

[Gary]

I am not crazy about flavored vinegar's I guess I really haven't tried too many of them. Years ago I worked in a vinegar plant primarily apple cider vinegar. Although we did make some white grain vinegar from 100% grain alcohol. We had a tank that held about 10,000 gallons of "white lighting" there were all sorts of regulations on that.

Being a good fat German kid we use vinegar on lots of things. We never run out of homemade dill pickles ha ha. Although I noticed we are down to the last few jars. I couldn't get enough pickling cukes last year. I would grow them but picking them is not fun. I either cant get down to the ground and then I cant get up again!

I had some Armenian cukes (no seeds) last year son finally set a few old metal folding chairs in the garden, not just to sit on but they make great pull ups!

[Virginia]

Gary, I have had raspberry vinaigrette that is a little strong and then I have had it that is really good. I wasn't even sure that was what it was on the Blackened Salmon Salad I had. Maybe they make their own there. When I buy it at the store and put it on my salads here at home or when I put it on in a restaurant I always try to be very careful about how much I use. I can always put more on if it is not enough, but too much can ruin a salad.

[Catdancer]

You can always dilute the flavored vinegar with a bit of water, or if they're too tart, with a bit of sugar.

[Catdancer]

I cooked a leg lamb of lamb for Easter dinner. Boy was it yummy! And easy. Well, actually not the whole leg, more a 4-1/2 pound bone-in lamb roast.

Score the fat on top like you do with a ham. Rub a light coat of olive oil over it, then spices. There's a lamb spice mix in the seasonings aisle, or you can use rosemary, basil, thyme, just a touch of mint, crushed together.

Put the roast in the roasting pan, add about 1/4 inch water to the bottom.of the pan, tightly cover with foil put in oven. 325 degrees, for 20 minutes/pound. About 1/2 hour before its done, remove the foil, put roast back into the oven. That's it. Yummy!!

Right now,ground beef is on sale for $4.39/ pound; lamb is selling for $6.99. I'd rather have a lamb sandwich...

[agate]

I used to roast legs of lamb. Served with a bit of mint jelly, it was tasty.

Cutting little slits in the surface of the lamb leg and putting a sliver of garlic into each slit is a way to add garlic flavor but you do need to find those garlic slivers and fish them out before you serve it unless you don't mind chomping into garlic.

[Gary]

I grew up in a house where sheep produced wool, certainly not food! Trish has tried lamb twice in 33 years and we were so disappointed it just didn't taste good. Not bad or anything just kinda unpleasant. So she has been leery of spending good money and ruin it. I really wish she would I would like to taste it. I have eaten lots and lots of goat (well we DID have the dairy) I have been told it is similar but usually sweeter and more tender. Graisers vs Browsers I guess.