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Trigg

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My Dad loved osso buco and so do I

for 4 servings

4 or 8 veal shanks with big marrows

plain flour with freshly cracked black pepper and sea salt

approx 2 tbsp duck fat (I buy a duck every now and then to roast, it yields about 1 cup of fat and a tasty dinner)

2 onions cut in thick wedges

4 carrots sliced thick

1 cup haricot beans soaked over night

zest of 1/2 and juice of 1 lemon

2 or more garlic cloves diced

good chicken stock

1 cup good chardonnay

1/2 cup thickened cream

1 tbsp brown sugar

Dredge veal shanks in plain flour seasoned with freshly cracked pepper and sea salt

In a pan brown both sides in duck fat and put to one side

Then saute onion wedges and sliced carrots until onions are just caramelised

Into a large baking dish place the onions and carrots and then haricot beans and lemon zest and juice, top this up with chicken stock to almost cover the beans, then add the shanks

Over a good heat add diced garlic to the pan after 15-30 seconds deglaze with chardonnay, add thickened cream stir until it boils and pour this over the shanks

Sprinkle with brown sugar and a little extra pepper and salt, cover and put in oven at 160 for 3hrs 30mins

Serve with garlic mashed potatoes, peas, bakers delight baguettes with butter and a good shiraz

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Just a day late, chalkeroochy! :blink:

I haven't had the ol' O.B. since the mad-cow et al crazes... :D

Anymooo Anyhooooo .... how was the meal, Trigg?

Turned out magic, especially when washed down with a bottle of 1997 Penfolds Kalimna Bin 28!

Next dinner party in two weeks. What to cook next?

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I made this for my son's girlfriend's birthday last weekend, everyone loved the lamb but the potato wedges got the encore, the secret was to steam them till they started to crumble and fall apart

1 leg lamb

enough garlic to your liking cut into thick slivers

2 tbsp duck fat

marinade(1/4 cup cold pressed olive oil, 6 fresh rosemary tips, fresh thyme and juice 1 lime

1 large onion roughly chopped

1 tbsp butter

3/4 cup riesling

3/4 cup thickened cream

carefully bone lamb and trim of as much fat as possible, now butterfly the thick part so the leg looks like one big thick (lamb) steak. With a small sharp pointed knife stab the steak all over on both sides and push in the garlic pieces then put into marinade overnight covered in the fridge or for at least 3 hrs,

In a large pan over a good heat brown the lamb in duck fat for about 1 minute a side, then over a medium heat 4 minutes a side , it will shrink in length and thicken a little, put to one side with rosemary tips

over a good heat saute onions for 1 minute, put in baking dish and lay the lamb on top

add nob of butter to pan and stir so it doesn't burn, when melted and frothing deglaze with wine and add thickened cream stirring till it bubbles, pour over lamb cover tightly and bake at 150 for 3hrs

serve with chunky (pealed)potato wedges steamed till fluffy then shallow fried in duck fat to golden brown, with beans and gravy made from the juices left under the lamb and a good cabernet sauvignon

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Talking about kid, an Indian Restaurant has just opened around the corner and they are doing a roaring trade in goat curries. I reckon once you have eaten goat, especially roast leg of kid, lamb will always be a disappointment. I've been buying goat meat from the halal butcher in Fortitude Valley and he tells me that goat is doing big business nowadays. Until recently much goat was rounded-up ferals but now farmed goat is becoming more common. Maybe a good business to get into - anyone got a hobby farm? :)

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