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Here's a weekend query for you all (one that has NOTHING to do with college admissions)--I roasted my first whole bone-in leg of lamb today (complete with gravy. I love rice and gravy more than almost any food on this earth). It was delicious and now I have amazing leftovers. I can do shepherd's pie, of course, but two questions for you--
what are your favorite ways to use leftover lamb?
and does anyone have an awesome lamb-bone-soup recipe?
3 days ago
Cook with tons of garlic, make greek Greek gyro. Yogurt with dill and cucumber, romaine, and kalamata olives.
I would use the bone to make broth and then use the meat and broth to make Lamb cassoulet (the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook has a good recipe), or Middle Eastern lamb stew.
Make garlic mashed potatoes 😍
A meat pie is never amiss.
Moroccan lamb stew
Leftover lamb? I don’t understand. That’s never happened to me!
My husband's grandmother grew up in French Colonial Algeria. Here's her recipe for chorba, lamb stew: 2 pounds lamb stew meat (or leftover lamb) 2 zucchini, shredded 2 carrots, shredded 1 small can tomato paste 1 onion, diced 1 can garbanzo beans 200g orzo (depends how much pasta you want in it) Cumin Salt and pepper to taste 10 cups water Brown meat and onions. Into the slow cooker and done. Great with Algerian kesra bread.
I made some wonderful hand pies (pasties) with lamb leftovers a few weeks ago. I loosely followed this recipe: flusterbuster.com/2017/03/simple-beef-pasties.html using diced lamb instead of ground beef and potatoes not rutabagas.
I just made a wonderful Moroccan-style dish with squash, onions, garlic, apricots, prunes, sun-dried tomatoes, chicken, and lots of spices, served over couscous. I'll bet this could be made with leftover lamb instead of chicken and it would taste heavenly. (It was heavenly as it was, but you know. 😉 )
HOW did you get on rice and gravy? That's such a south east TX/Louisiana thing! Also my favorite thing on earth. Carbs and fat. What could possibly be better?
Cornish pasties - lamb instead of beef 😀
Gyros. Also lamb-salad (add mayo, onions, celery, or mustard, honey, or anything else that complements the original spices of the roast lamb, no recipe, use your judgment, like you would for chicken salad) to diced leftover lamb.
Use the bone to make some yummy lentil soup
My mother used to make scotch broth soup. This recipe looks similar: www.canadianliving.com/food/recipe/scotch-broth
You can make curry with leftover lamb, it is so good. It is also saucy and served with rice too!
Lamb sandwiches! Warm up the lamb, put on some mint jelly. You can toast it or not. So good. An Aussie standard I also love lamb currys. Roganjosh, butter, or any Indian curry really. Served with rice of course.
Once upon a time I had an amazing curry recipe- used green apples and lamb among other things. I wish I could find it again!
I love rice and gravy too!
Lamb-burgers, fried rice / rice or quinoa bowls, lamb salad (these are my go-tos for most any leftorver protein).
Lamb stew--potatoes, carrots, onions, leeks, celery and the broth from the lamb shank bone. Two cups of H2O and a slow cooker or InstaPot.
Sound weird, but last leg of lamb we did (smoked) we took some of the leftover, chopped it up and wrapped it with seaweed and rice like sushi... Lamb Sushi.. with cream cheese and herb.. it was .. actually awesome.
Some things I do are: 1. Use the meat for pita sandwich with hummus, tahini, cucumbers and yogurt 2. On lightly oiled corn tortillas, spread feta chunks, put the meat on top sear it quickly in the broiler then top with salsa and lettuce. 3. Since you have rice and gravy I would heat the rice on high heat to crisp part of it sort of like a fried rice thing. Add the meat and top with gravy. 4. Cook the bone slowly for 4 hours with aromatics, add floated dumplings and the chunks of meat. 6. Curry with that gravy and rice. I love lamb.
Yum! I’ve never made lamb, so I’m no help! Last weekend I made rabbit pies and rabbit stew for the first time ever!
I like combining lamb and chicken bones to make broth. I prefer the combined flavor to lamb alone.
I would try a Greek vegetable soup with the leftover lamb.
When I was a homeschooled student suffering an academic meltdown, my mother would always offer three solutions: Eat a sandwich. Take a shower. Have a nap. It always helped.
Guess what? The educational establishment has decided that food, movement, and sleep can improving learning.
Who knew?
www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/03/13/why-lunch-exercise-sleep-and-air-quality.html
Why Lunch, Exercise, Sleep, and Air Quality Matter at School
edweek.org
Lunches wolfed down in 15 minutes. Little or no recess. Sleep-deprived teens. And pollutant-filled indoor air. There’s mounting evidence that addressing these basic quality of life issues can improve students’ achievement and well-being.4 days ago
I always tell people, when they comment on my kids’ achievements, that I wish I could take more credit but the fact that they sleep late/get enough sleep, and eat healthy meals throughout the day guarantees they are more ready to learn than a lot of kiddos who are burning the candle to get to school on time 🤷🏻♀️
Besides homeschooling, I also tutor students in reading and spelling. A very mature little 4th grader, whom I had this morning, really started to decline in capability a good way into lesson that she had been doing beautifully. It was not her normal. We paused after a couple words because she seemed very teary. She told me big words really bother her. And then she sat for a moment and then said, "Actually. I don't think I ate breakfast this morning!" Luckily, I was tutoring her in my home, so it was now breakfast time! She's so mature!
Who knew? Moms knew.... that's who.
My daughter was reduced to TEARS yesterday over a problem in her Logic homework. After she ran 8 miles with her cross county team she could clearly see the answer and finished the rest in record time
So true! I never understood why traditional school starts so early? One of the many beauties of homeschool we are free to take those breaks when necessary! It’s an in-breath/out-breath movement in our educational environment.
I must have learned that from your book when we began homeschooling all those years ago. Even now that my son is in college 2,500 miles away I recommend eating and taking a nap when he sends me a text about having a bad day.
You gave me the same advice when I was a freaked out undergrad. I’ve since found this poem that offers similar sound advice... www.commonwealmagazine.org/voice-god-poem
What?!? You mean the full, embodied experience of our education matters and we're not machines? The heck you say? 😉
I was just telling a kid today, “people would get a lot more accomplished if they would just listen to their mother”.
The Bible tells us this is 1 Kings 19: 4-9 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there.
The first homeschool 'convention'?/gathering I attended, I heard your mom share that exact information. Timeless advice.
When my daughters were being completely unreasonable, it was often from not eating. i stopped everything to make them eat because to move forward with school work was pointless without taking care of their needs.
Love that mama of yours, Susan... so wise. (In ALL the ways. )
Your mama knew!
That is the joy and freedom of homeschooling. I homeschool my granddaughter one day a week and after each subject, I tell her to take a walk around the house. Did that with my daughter too. Or a snack. Some sort of diversion. It does work!!! Love that.
Made me think of this
Tatiana Da Rosa Valença aqui em casa eu faço o mesmo... Em primeiro lugar é "vai tomar um banho" 😅😂..... Comer um lanchinho... Ele der certo... uma soneca 😅😅😅😅
I heard your mom say this at one of her very last speaking engagements. I quote it all the time. It worked with my kids and it’s helped everyone I’ve ever shared it with. I always give her credit.
And that advice saved our collective sanity
One reason, on top of many, why I took my daughter out of elementary school to homeschool her. Starting in grade 4 they took away their “measly” 10 minute morning recess! My daughter was so mad! Now she has plenty of time for outside if she wants it!
I wonder how much money they blew on that study the .
Jeremy Lin 林書豪 i notice air quality like every 3 months when I change my apt air filter. Im mainly on a type B day by day easy cancel schedule now, but considering some type A options. Im not busy... Its nice. Ever tried it?
Excellent article 👌🏾
Moms are so wise.
Your mom is awesome!!
