I've had a request from the glw.

[Sir C]

I thought you had made this last night?

I made kebabs with wafer thin slices of leftover leg of lamb marinated in cumin, coriander, Ras-El-Hanout, lemon juice, salt, garlic and dried mint. Hard-fried them to get a bit of a crust and served them with flatbreads, pickled chillis, hummus, chilli sauce, red cabbage macerated in lemon juice and salt, raw onion, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, etc.

It was, frankly, far better than the original roast lamb.

I was going to but I bottled it. I'll try on Thursday.

Lamb sounds excellent. I have ordered a whole shoulder of lamb for easter weekend slow barbecueing/smoking. I might consider slicing it thinly, marinading it in the usual suspects and then loading it onto a rotisserie to make a shawarma effort...

[Burney]

I was going to but I bottled it. I'll try on Thursday.

Lamb sounds excellent. I have ordered a whole shoulder of lamb for easter weekend slow barbecueing/smoking. I might consider slicing it thinly, marinading it in the usual suspects and then loading it onto a rotisserie to make a shawarma effort...

Lamb is the traditional Easter meal, of course. And, while that makes sense seasonally and in terms of the pagan roots of the festival, in Christian terms the symbolic significance of lamb (agnus dei and so forth) makes it a bit fúcking weird, doesn't it?

[Sir C]

Lamb is the traditional Easter meal, of course. And, while that makes sense seasonally and in terms of the pagan roots of the festival, in Christian terms the symbolic significance of lamb (agnus dei and so forth) makes it a bit fúcking weird, doesn't it?

Yes. I was always somewhat puzzled by trhe exact process by which God's lamb removed human sin.

Religion's weird.

Ooh, and I'm also going to make a variety of naan or roti using the extremely high temperatures possible in the Kamado Joe, with a pizza stone. It's like having a tandoor!

[Luis Anaconda]

Lamb is the traditional Easter meal, of course. And, while that makes sense seasonally and in terms of the pagan roots of the festival, in Christian terms the symbolic significance of lamb (agnus dei and so forth) makes it a bit fúcking weird, doesn't it?

tbf when "we" believe that we are eating the body of christ in communion, a bit of the old lamb is hardly going to make things much weirder

[Sir C]

tbf when "we" believe that we are eating the body of christ in communion, a bit of the old lamb is hardly going to make things much weirder

It's nice that on special occasions we get a sip of blood to wash it down, though. Nothing strange there, no sirree.

[Burney]

It's nice that on special occasions we get a sip of blood to wash it down, though. Nothing strange there, no sirree.

Look, it's one thing consuming the consecrated host in a holy and mysterious ritual thousands of years old. It's quite another serving up the symbolic Lamb of God with roast potatoes, mint sauce and gravy.

[Sir C]

Look, it's one thing consuming the consecrated host in a holy and mysterious ritual thousands of years old. It's quite another serving up the symbolic Lamb of God with roast potatoes, mint sauce and gravy.

Mint sauce is a strange thing, isn't it? Let's be absolutely honest here: no one is eating it for the mint. It's the vinegar, cutting through the lamb grease, that's doing the work.

Just put a bottle of Sarson's on the table and be done with it.

[Burney]

Mint sauce is a strange thing, isn't it? Let's be absolutely honest here: no one is eating it for the mint. It's the vinegar, cutting through the lamb grease, that's doing the work.

Just put a bottle of Sarson's on the table and be done with it.

Of course. But mint and lamb do work together - hence the prevalence of dried mint in Greek and Middle Eastern lamb dishes.

Besides, the French serve shoulder of lamb with capers and vinegar for the same reason. You wouldn't say 'lose the capers', though, would you?

[Burney]

tbf when "we" believe that we are eating the body of christ in communion, a bit of the old lamb is hardly going to make things much weirder

You keep your dirty heretic talk to yourself in Easter Week, la!

Mind you, I'll bet they're going mad for it down your way, aren't they? I've always found German Catholicism to be particularly visceral. Their paintings and statues of the crucified Christ would give you nightmares for weeks.

[Sir C]

You keep your dirty heretic talk to yourself in Easter Week, la!

Mind you, I'll bet they're going mad for it down your way, aren't they? I've always found German Catholicism to be particularly visceral. Their paintings and statues of the crucified Christ would give you nightmares for weeks.

I went to easter Sunday mass in Salzburg a couple of years ago. I must say, the German language is surprisingly well suited to the liturgy. It was rather a moving ceremony.

Then I went and gorged myself on the Stelze