chops - what's the fucking point?

[sojourner]

I'm not that keen, too much fiddling about. We eat them because my butcher seems to have imagination failure when it comes to cutting up the meat.

What fiddling? Smear em with a bit of harissa paste, shove under grill.

Fiddling

 

[madzone]

Wrong.

Lamb is under 1 year old.
When it reaches a year it is called hogget.

There is no such thing as "baby lamb". Lamb is, by definition, baby.

And yet still not what people would percieve to be what they know as 'baby' lamb. It amuses me that people see pics of my baby lambs and think I'm going to eat them before they're almost fully grown. It makes me feel all cruel and machiavellian

 

[madzone]

What fiddling? Smear em with a bit of harissa paste, shove under grill.

Fiddling

Fiddly to eat. Can't be arsed.

 

[Kanda]

I might do lamb chops tonight, nom.

 

[Tank Girl]

The fat on them, esp pork chops is among the finest tastes known to man

*drools*

 

[tarannau]

Fiddly to eat. Can't be arsed.

Eh? They've got a hand-held delivery system*




*a bone

 

[madzone]

I might do lamb chops tonight, nom.

How many do you have to have to fill you up? I do pork chops but I sell all the lamb chops because they're too much effort to eat being that small.

 

[madzone]

Eh? They've got a hand-held delivery system*




*a bone

I don't want to eat with my hands thank you. I has manners

 

[Lemon Eddy]

What fiddling? Smear em with a bit of harissa paste, shove under grill.

Absolutely spot on.

 

[madzone]

Absolutely spot on.

Harissa paste

You're all so middle class.

 

[Kanda]

5 or 6 I reckon, depends where I get them and what I dish 'em up with. I want cous cous but the boys will just frown at it and push it aside

 

[madzone]

5 or 6 I reckon, depends where I get them and what I dish 'em up with. I want cous cous but the boys will just frown at it and push it aside

5 or 6?? Fuck me that's about quarter of a lamb

 

[Idaho]

You have cloth for tastebuds if you believe that boneless leg steaks are half as flavoursome as a well reared chop. Best nuggets of taste on whole lamb - you take the inconvenience as sacrifice for the flavour. Only the rack comes close.

If you want a convenient lump of protein, free of those important animal bone and fat things, eat Quorn.

Quite so. And if you go to a decent butcher they are really cheap. If you get chops from a supermarket you get burned.

 

[Roadkill]

I rather wish I hadn't read this thread. I want chops for my tea now - big, succulent chops from the butcher, all flavoursome meat and nice, crispy fat. Well worth the small amount of extra effort needed to eat them IMHO...

 

[madzone]

A rack is just chops that haven't been cut up

 

[Orang Utan]

I rather wish I hadn't read this thread. I want chops for my tea now - big, succulent chops from the butcher, all flavoursome meat and nice, crispy fat. Well worth the small amount of extra effort needed to eat them IMHO...

Me too!
I may have to get some now...

 

[sojourner]

Fiddly to eat. Can't be arsed.

only if you're avoiding bits on the chop. like fatty sizzly lambikins bits.

weirdo

 

[Lemon Eddy]

You're all so middle class.

Yes. Yes I am.

But you know shit about food, and that's worse.

 

[madzone]

only if you're avoiding bits on the chop. like fatty sizzly lambikins bits.

weirdo

If you say so hun, if you say so I can't eat anything that vaguely resembles fat, makes me chuck up.

 

[sojourner]

Harissa paste

You're all so middle class.

piss off

i only discovered the stuff last year

 

[madzone]

Yes. Yes I am.

But you know shit about food, and that's worse.

What is it I need to learn?

 

[madzone]

piss off

i only discovered the stuff last year

Along with the juniper berries for your venison stew?

 

[sojourner]

If you say so hun, if you say so I can't eat anything that vaguely resembles fat, makes me chuck up.

Depends on the fat. Chicken fat - bleurgh (unless it's on crispy skin, obv). Lamb fat, beef or pork fat - grilled/griddled until it's crispy brown on the outside and melty on the inside - is true oral sex

 

[madzone]

Depends on the fat. Chicken fat - bleurgh (unless it's on crispy skin, obv). Lamb fat, beef or pork fat - grilled/griddled until it's crispy brown on the outside and melty on the inside - is true oral sex

Remind me not to let you go down on me

 

[Echo Base]

Im not 'poor' and I love pork chops. Pork chops, mash, peas, gravy. Cant go wrong with that.

 

[sojourner]

Along with the juniper berries for your venison stew?

haha

i think you'll find it was missfran that had it with juniper berries, and i'd never heard of them until two weeks ago

check yer facts, lady

 

[Orang Utan]

Harissa is yummy, madz is weird, fat is the best bit

 

[Kanda]

But you know shit about food, and that's worse.

She actually rears and eats her own food.... you probably just go to your middle class butchers and ask what cut is in fashion right now

 

[sojourner]

Remind me not to let you go down on me

I could respond here - but it really would be tmi

 

[Orang Utan]

Depends on the fat. Chicken fat - bleurgh (unless it's on crispy skin, obv). Lamb fat, beef or pork fat - grilled/griddled until it's crispy brown on the outside and melty on the inside - is true oral sex

The trick with pork chops is to finish them off in the oven