We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

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> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks,
like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked
potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for
alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no
sidedishes for them.

Boiled or baked onions in a cream sauce.
Lemony roast potatoes
Broad beans (steamed)

Janet UK

> Lemony roast potatoes
>

That day I did end up oven baking potatoes and carrots tossed in olive oil and rosemary.

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

To me, lamb says spring, so baby peas, perhaps with pearl onions, and parsleyed potatoes (using boiled new potatoes). Serve with a green salad and a California pinot noir.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:07:28 -0800 (PST),
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>On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
>> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks,
>like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach.
>Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.
>
>To me, lamb says spring, so baby peas, perhaps with pearl onions, and parsleyed potatoes (using boiled new potatoes).
> Serve with a green salad and a California pinot noir.

I like sweet potato fries polenta with lamb, or polenta. Asparagus
goes well also. And rather than the pinot noir, I'd serve with a
full-bodied Aussie shiraz.

Doris

Michael Nielsen wrote:
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>We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here.

Serve lamb with a respirator.

On 2013-11-26 4:07 PM, wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen
> wrote:
>> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go
>> for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes,
>> flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs,
>> or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives.
>> Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes
>> for them.
>
> To me, lamb says spring, so baby peas, perhaps with pearl onions, and
> parsleyed potatoes (using boiled new potatoes). Serve with a green
> salad and a California pinot noir.
>

I don't worry too much about potatoes with lamb chops. I like to have
nice fresh rolls instead. Asparagus or peas are nice with lamb, and I
like to have a salad with blue cheese dressing. Blue cheese and lamb is
a good combination.

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> On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
>> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for
>> the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with
>> garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach.
>> Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only
>> deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.
>
> To me, lamb says spring, so baby peas, perhaps with pearl onions, and
> parsleyed potatoes (using boiled new potatoes). Serve with a green salad
> and a California pinot noir.

I always marinade lamb in slices with rosemary, mint and garlic. I find
enough flavours from that so I serve it with steamed new potatoes and peas.

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On 11/27/2013 3:21 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> > wrote in message
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>> On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
>>> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go
>>> for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes,
>>> flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs,
>>> or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes
>>> around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.
>>
>> To me, lamb says spring, so baby peas, perhaps with pearl onions, and
>> parsleyed potatoes (using boiled new potatoes). Serve with a green
>> salad and a California pinot noir.
>
> I always marinade lamb in slices with rosemary, mint and garlic. I find
> enough flavours from that so I serve it with steamed new potatoes and peas.
>

Steamed potatoes?

How indescribably bland.

I like to do lamb with mint sauce. Not the jelly-based stuff - I prefer
a simple sauce made from fresh mint, wine vinegar, sugar (see, for
example the recipe in Joy of Cooking). Often matched with couscous, and
some sort of roasted veggie (brussel sprouts, asparagus, etc.).

--
Julian Vrieslander

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:53:42 -0800 (PST), Michael Nielsen
> wrote:

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> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

I would saute fresh spinach with garlic to serve with the lamb chops
and have you ever thought about Israeli couscous?

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> I would saute fresh spinach with garlic to serve with the lamb chops
>

That's what I often do, yes.

> and have you ever thought about Israeli couscous?
>

Im more into bulgur, and have done that before, but what is the isreali way to make couscous?

On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:45:48 -0800 (PST), Michael Nielsen
> wrote:

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> > I would saute fresh spinach with garlic to serve with the lamb chops
> >
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> That's what I often do, yes.
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> > and have you ever thought about Israeli couscous?
> >
>
> Im more into bulgur, and have done that before, but what is the isreali way to make couscous?

It's a larger bead than traditional couscous. There's an even larger
one called Lebanese couscous. I really like the Israeli size and
hubby took to it the first time I served it to him... nothing fancy,
just brought to a boil, covered and steamed in a light broth.
http://www.cookthink.com/reference/2...raeli_couscous

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On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

My preference is rack of lamb rib chops. I have a favorite dish I serve with them. The recipe is here. It is a spinach and butternut squash rissoto which is quite easy to make.

http://www.hizzoners.com/index.php/r...squash-risotto

This is pretty much what everyone who has ever had it says is the best lamb combo ever.

> This is pretty much what everyone who has ever had it says is the best lamb combo ever.

can butternut squash be replaced with normal squash? Although normal squash don't handle being cooked well , in my opinion.

On 2013-12-01 6:44 PM, Michael Nielsen wrote:
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>> This is pretty much what everyone who has ever had it says is the
>> best lamb combo ever.
>
> can butternut squash be replaced with normal squash? Although normal
> squash don't handle being cooked well , in my opinion.
>

????? What is the difference between butternut squash and "normal" squash?

>
> ????? What is the difference between butternut squash and "normal" squash?

Oh, is butternut squash and squash the same thing?

>
> Oh, is butternut squash and squash the same thing?

oh right. you call squash zucchini.

Very different:

http://www.bonappetit.com/wp-content...t_squash_v.jpg

http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/demos/f...s/zucchini.jpg

On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:54:05 -0800 (PST), Michael Nielsen
> wrote:

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> >
> > ????? What is the difference between butternut squash and "normal" squash?
>
> Oh, is butternut squash and squash the same thing?

He wants to know what you consider "normal" squash.

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In article >,
Michael Nielsen > wrote:

> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the
> same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic
> and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for
> inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the
> chops, but no sidedishes for them.

When I was living with my parents we would have those same chops with
steak fries done in olive oil, green peas, leaf lettuce salad with OO
and wine vinegar, and SF sourdough bread.
I would also suggest a Croatian dish, 'blitva'. Boil potatoes with Swiss
chard, drain and cut them into bite size pieces and then, finish them in
olive oil and minced garlic, heated long enough to cook the garlic.

D.M.

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

Polenta?

> Polenta?

Hopefully not.

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53:42 AM UTC-8, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

We've had baked onions that last few times we've had lamb. It seems a good combination to us. And it could hardly be simpler. I posted thin a while ago:

>The first vegetable I roasted, and still my favorite, was a big
> onion. Pull off just any loose skin, stand upright on a pan lined
> with foil, bake at 400F until soft all the way through.. Slit the
> top, add a pat of butter or sour cream, scoop the onion out of the
> skin. Couldn't be simpler and complements the widest range of meats.

I like the idea of skipping potatoes, too. -aem

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:53:42 PM UTC-5, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> We don't have a tradition for lamb chops around here and I could go for the same as I would use for steaks, like mashed potatoes, flavoured with garlic and rosemary, oven baked potatoes with herbs, or sauteed spinach. Looking for inspiration for alternatives. Recipes around the web only deal with the chops, but no sidedishes for them.

High heat; rare chops. French bread...