Originally posted by avalanchethecat
There will come a day, I swear it, when I will be able to offer a similarly thought-provoking reply to one of your posts, o beetle. Not today, alas.
avalachethecat and this bug are on the same path; when they are hungry they eat, when they are thirst they drink; time for a tasty stew, I will share it with you;
Black Beastie’s Irish Stew
4 lamb neck fillets cut from 2 middle necks (keep them bones and make lamb stock)
700gr carrots
2 onions
450gr potatoes Maris Piper
450gr potatoes Charlotte
1,2lt of your hot lamb stock (now add in it a wee dram of The Teapot Dram Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Whisky)
Leaves from 6 springs of thyme
Chopped parsley to garnish
Cut the lamb fillets across the grain into chunks about 5cm thick; cut the carrots into bite-sized pieces, thickly slice the onion and cut both Maris Piper and Charlotte into 2,5cm chunks. Sip your Irish coffee with standard Bushmills, no cream no sugar just hot black and strong.
Put the puir lamb into a saucepan, pour the stock, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to a simmer and cook uncovered for 31min. During simmering, with a large spoon skim off the scummy impurities as they rise to the surface. Your Irish is well over by this time, ask yer lass gently to bring ye a tippeny, a Hobgoblin will do.
Remove the animal, strain the stock through a fine sieve, return the animal and stock to the cleaned-out pan, bring to the boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer gently for 10min. Bye bye Hobgoblin. Add the onion, the carrots and them Maris Piper, cover and keep up simmering for 10min. Drink fresh water and kiss in good spirits that gatherin’ brows lass of yers, she loves you yeah etc;
Add the thyme and them Charlotte, cover and simmer for 18min or till the lamb is truly tender; Maris Piper will break down and thus will drive the sauce thick; them Charlotte will keep their gorgeous shape; remove from the heat and leave to stand covered for 14min. Ooooh oooh that smell, yer lass is now again in love with ye. Right now it’s yer chance to please her for 10min (make sure ye just poured at that clean glass unnoticed a wee dram of that ole Teapot Dram Glengoyne full amongst else of cinnamon, oak and brown sugahsugah sugaaah)
Her 10min
@Heaven are over, hopefully yer lass is happy and hungry by now, so check the seasoning and sprinkle generously with chopped parsley. Enjoy Black Beastie’s Irish stew with yer wee Glengoyne dram, the amber during these last 14 minutes that stayed in the glass became really the water of life;
May You Always Be Happy
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