Sunday, April 25, 2010

Rack of lamb with homemade pommes frites

The local tradition is to cook lamb until hard as a shoe sole, but I am yet to submit. The rack was cooked with garlic and rosemary at 180 degrees for 16 minutes until pink in the centre (I was going to make a burlesque joke here but it's not very funny, excessively dirty and probably only works in Swedish so never mind).

They call the pommes frites "chips" here; not sure if this is a misunderstanding or reluctance to acknowledge that anything good can be French. Fries have an undeserved reputation for being fat and unhealthy. They are probably not particularly healthy but nor are they that bad, and if you make your own ones you don't need to add any fat at all, just cut them up, soak them, squeeze out the liquid and starch and bake in the oven for half an hour or so at as high a temperature as you dare.

The presentation is made up with beetroot from yesterday and some mozzarella because, well, why not?

Eat in front of your TV enjoying a recording of Liège-Bastogne-Liège or a cycle race of your choice.

2 comments:

  1. Hey. Kom igen. Dra skämtet? Rosa i mitten...? Jag tänker för långsamt ikväll för att kunna konnekta punkterna. Maten ser sensationell ut! Kommer rätten med i din nya kokbok? Med fulla recept?

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  2. Nat med lammkott... alldeles for vidrigt, du far fylla i punkterna.

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