Nancy Young wrote:

> Gotcha, it just sounded like a good thing to me, but the cold hard fact
> is, I hardly ever seen lamb in my local supermarket, and I sure didn't
> look for lamb shanks. Sounded much better *to me* than something
> with a tomato sauce.

I can understand you not seeing lamb shanks in your grocery store. We eat lamb
quite often in this household, and it used to chops or legs, occasionally a
shoulder roast. I had never heard of lamb shanks until my wife saw them being
done on Canadian Living Cooks about two years ago and the recipe cam in the
next issue of their magazine, which we subscribe to. She searched for the
shanks and found some. Since that time I have tended to grab some whenever I
see them in the store.

I wanted to get some lamb shanks to cook for my sister in law's impending visit
and figured I had better shop ahead. They didn't have any in the my usual
local grocery so yesterday I drove 20 miles to another of their outlets because
that one usually has lots of lamb. No luck. I was going by the usual store on
my way to the gym so I stopped in to check and they had at least 20 packages of
shanks (packs of 3). I grabbed 6 packs.