What a Week!
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 9:26PM
Klutz in the Kitchen in Cooking Tips, Grilled Lamb with Mustard and Herbs, Grilled leg of lamb recipe, Julia Childs, Main Course, Original Recipes, grilled potato recipe, lamb

Grilled Lamb with Potatoes and AsparagusIt's been a busy week in DC--for those of you who follow closely, sorry I am behind on posting recipes!  I'll update them soon.  promise.  I went to the grocery store to get some rib eyes to grill, but they didn't look very good, so I came home instead with a butterflied leg of lamb.  I love lamb.  My mom credits it to the fact that she ate lamb chops the night before she gave birth to me and it was the only food I would eat until I was five. I usually buy a bone-in leg of lamb and roast it in the oven, but it's such a beautiful night and I was working on a relatively tight schedule the grill seemed the way to go.  Leg of Lamb can be a bit chewy (even though it's from a lamb, not older meat or mutton, the leg muscle does a lot of work!) especially if it isn't slow roasted, sEnjoying meat and potatoeso it is important to marinate the meat before it goes on the grill. Since I didn't plan ahead of time and only had an hour and a half to marinade, I increased the amount of acid (rice vinegar and Worcestershire sauce).  Lamb and dijon mustard go well together--ask Julia Childs--and of course garlic, mint, thyme and rosemary enhance the flavor of the meat.  I also added a bit of soy for salt and olive oil for flavor.  Since we were grilled, I threw some baby potatoes and asparagus in the marinade and grilled them as well.

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