by Helen Kain | Oct 24, 2023 | Fall Recipes, Holiday, Home, Lamb, Mains, Recent
Spiced Pumpkin and Lamb Tagine is a seasonal twist on a traditional Moroccan dish of braised meat and spices. It’s typically served over a bed of couscous or rice, perfect for sopping up every last delicious drop of the sauce. This recipe calls for roasting two...
by Helen Kain | Feb 22, 2022 | Lamb, Pasta & Rice, Recent, Winter Recipes
Lamb shanks are the intended cut of meat for this dish, but I had purchased a partial leg of lamb from Whole Foods for New Year’s Eve dinner. Either the lamb in question had been training for a marathon prior to its demise, or it was actually mutton. Talk about...
by Helen Kain | Oct 11, 2016 | Fall Recipes, Lamb, Mains, Recipes By Type, Sides, Spring Tablescapes
This dish was inspired by one we enjoyed at Les Papilles, a very small restaurant in the Latin Quarter of Paris, which we visited on a recent trip. “Les papilles” means “taste buds”, and how appropriate that is. The menu is completely...
by Helen Kain | Aug 18, 2016 | Family & Friends, Lamb, Mains, Recipes By Type, Sides, Summer Recipes
We were lucky enough to find some lamb chops whilst in the Cape, which is no small feat. They’re not much into lamb in the US, we find. Inspired by the recipe for Lamb Chops with Eggplant and Indian Spices from Fine Cooking’s August/September 2011 edition,...
by Helen Kain | Jan 9, 2016 | Lamb, Mains, Recipes By Type, Sides
We’ve been incredibly lucky with a fairly mild winter so far here in Ontario, but the desire for fall-off-the-bones-tender meat still runs strong. We were planning a casual family dinner for an undetermined number of people over the holidays — a familiar...
by Helen Kain | Oct 5, 2011 | Fall Recipes, Lamb, Mains, Recipes By Type, Winter Recipes, Winter Tablescapes
This hearty braised dish is a family favourite. This recipe is a compilation of many I’ve tried over the years. Still, it most closely resembles Braised Lamb Shanks Provencal found in All About Braising by Molly Stevens, a go-to cookbook and a font of wisdom and...