So on the train back from downtown grocery shopping for birthday dinner tonight, so figured I'd update on round 1 of my gourmet weekend! Last night we didn't want to do any shopping with the big dinner coming up tonight, so I just collected ingredients already in the fridge and freezer.
Decided to make a rack of goat, which I marinated in lemon wheels, olive oil, chili olives, cayenne pepper, mixed hot peppers, pesto, fresh rosemary and thyme.
Let that sit aside for a few hours, and started a salad to go with the goat. I took fresh carrots and shallots (diced), halved brussel sprouts, and apples and caramelized them in a large saute pan in generous amounts of butter. I let them cool and drizzled a POTENT dijon mustard-balsalmic vinaigrette. The lamb, after roasting in a dutch oven for about an hour (until medium rare) went over the salad with a lemon wheel for garnish. Was DELICIOUS.
When roasting the rack, I rubbed it in finely chopped mixed herbs and placed it over a bed of sliced tomatoes and olive oil in the Dutch oven.
This was such a delicious dish but problems arose seperating the individual ribs. When I inquired at the butcher today, he asked if the spinal bones had been pre-cracked. They had not, resulting in the slicing fiasco. Just a side note for those of you cooking racks fresh off the farm! They do not always come pre-cracked!
Absolutely giddy after my shopping in the city today...so much fun food to try. Stay tuned for some killer sea urchin...dying I couldn't take home the entire fish counter!
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