Lamb Bourguigon

'Lamb' Bourguigon

Recipe source :

The Little Paris Kitchen by Rachel Khoo

I love this book and the program accompanied it, and after watching the movie Julie/Julia which revolved around Boeuf Bourguignon, I really wanted to try this recipe when I found it in this book.

To my darling's dismay, I don't eat beef, so had to substitute it with lamb.  This recipes was easy to follow, and I love one pot cooking!

after I duly browned the meat and fried off the heart stopping lardons in butter, the pan is deglazed with red wine ( the sizzling sound was very exciting)  its off to my 1970s oven for 1 1/2 hours of cooking.

and the result!  was delicious!  I am not normally a big fan of cooking with red wine, coq au Vine in particular is a pet peeve.  But in this dish, long gone the harsh tangy taste of the tannin, the sauce was rich and meaty and goes down with a treat with the dumplings made from left over bread butts ( yes....the top and tail of a loaf of sliced bread) it is not always easy to find a purpose for them apart from croutons!

I am seriously considering buying a cast iron pot!

The Mission statement : I will use my cookbooks!

The amount of cookbooks and 'how to make cake' books in my small flat is impossible to count.  Although I love flipping through the pretty pictures, they remained just pretty pictures on my bookshelf.   but this didn't stop me buy new ones.

Recently I have discovered my cooking repertoire has started to repeat it self, and one fateful sunday while I was 'suppose' to do my projects, I reached into my cookbook library and made a Nigella chocolate cake......and wow....it was lush!

This is not to say all my receipie trials is without its disasters, I remember my macaroons that looked more like the rocks in rockyroads than Hermes.

So I decided while I will utilize my cookbook range, I will share my trial and errors!