On Wed 08 Apr 2009 08:53:01p, Dave Smith told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Wed 08 Apr 2009 06:02:33p, Dave Smith told us...
>>
>>> Terry wrote:
>>>> Wife bought a couple of nice-sized lamb chops which will be Easter
>>>> dinner. Trouble is that we've never made lamb before and are not sure
>>>> what to have with it. Suggestions? Comments? Physical threats? :-)
>>> I would suggest that anything that you usually eat with red meats would
>>> be fine with lamb. I like to have asparagus with lamb, and a salad with
>>> blue cheese dressing. If you are using mint in the cooking I wouldn't
>>> worry too much about wine. Any decent full bodied red would be fine.
>>> There is no point in going overboard with a wine because the mint will
>>> obliterate the nuances.
>>
>> I agree with asparagus, and I'd also want butter roasted new potatoes.
I
>> like a mint sauce (not mint jelly) served with it.
>
> I hadn't mentioned potatoes because I only eat them occasionally, but
> spring time lamb with asparagus...... boiled new potatoes.
>

Sounds perfect!

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Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.