Lamb and vegetable pie
Another of those dishes for a sunday dinner when you have enough time to prepare...
Looking in our cupboard we discovered a spice mixture we brought back from our vacation to Ireland this year and decided to use it for tonights dinner.
We used some lamb meat, cut it into cubes. Mixed the spices (traditioinal lamb spices, whatever you like) with oil, add some garlic and pour it over the meat. Put spiced meat into a covered pot and into the oven. Bake it at 160 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes.
Add the vegetables (we used onions, a carrot and some brussels sprouts). Also add half a cup of red wine and some salt and pepper to taste.
Put again covered into the oven for about 45 minutes (160 degrees again). Remove from the oven, uncover and put mashed potatoes on top. Put under the heater until slightly brown on top. Remove from heat and wait (!) until it is a bit cooled down. Enjoy!
Chicken!
We went to a local farm this morning for some shopping (unlike normal shops in Germany, farms are allowed to open on Sundays to sell their own produce. They interpret "own" usually in a broader sense).
In addition to apples, potatoes and some vegetables we also bought a half chicken (they don't sell this very often). And this was a real chicken, the half one we bought weighting 1.6kg (56 ounces).
I boiled it together with vegetables for about 3 hours, then removed the meat from the bones and used the meat for a fricassee. Part of fricassee we had for dinner and the soup we will eat tomorrow.
Two new single malts...
Its this time of the year again... when the weather gets more miserable day by day, rain outside, or even snow, its time to enjoy the evening with a nice single malt.
A week ago I ordered two bottles from the
Scotch Malt Whisky Society and they arrived today:
Both are single cask cask-strength bottlings, which mean that they are bottled as the whisky comes out of the cask. A regular single malt is always a blend of different casks of one distillery.
The Highland Park is already open and a nice dram is standing before me as I write these lines.
The photograph is actually the stillhouse of
Glengoyne - I have not (yet) visited Highland Park or Dalmore.
