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re: Why is lamb so hard to find in the US?
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:19 am to Twenty 49
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:19 am to Twenty 49
I can find lamb all over and always have been able to. My mother cooked bone in leg of lamb all my life. It is eaten much more up the Eastern seaboard but is being eaten more and more in the south.
I like a stuffed leg of lamb served with baked apples. I also cook the frenched racks whole until medium rare and serve drizzled with pesto or Chimichurri.
I like a stuffed leg of lamb served with baked apples. I also cook the frenched racks whole until medium rare and serve drizzled with pesto or Chimichurri.
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Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:34 am to Martini
I got lambs for sale for Ramadan.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:40 am to diat150
Well that's a boat load of information you dropped on us there, diat. It'll take me most of the day to digest that...
Posted on 4/24/15 at 10:33 am to Martini
For a while, leg of lamb was pretty cheap here at HEB. I'd go home at lunch time and throw a couple seasoned (S&P, paprika) legs in the slow cooker with mirepoix, beef broth, and red wine. Then when I get home just thicken the sauce and cook a little rice. Great meal with little effort. Come to think of it, it's been a while since I've done this...
Posted on 4/24/15 at 10:44 am to OTIS2
I've done the traditional mutton recipe, and I've done some with just salt and pepper/rosemary to med rare.
I don't see bone in as much, but the flav has to be noticeably better, huh?
I don't see bone in as much, but the flav has to be noticeably better, huh?
Posted on 4/24/15 at 10:53 am to BRgetthenet
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I don't see bone in as much, but the flav has to be noticeably better, huh?
That's a myth.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:01 am to FT
They sell it at HEB in Texas. It looks like it's more of a problem with the area that you live, and not the whole country.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:10 am to FT
Halal markets for the good shite
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:15 am to Caplewood
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Halal markets for the good shite
This makes sense. I´d imagine the Arabs and other Muslims probably sacrifice the animal at an earlier age as well....
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:19 am to Dandy Lion
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:40 am to FT
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Why is lamb so hard to find in the US?
Getting back to the original title, Alton Brown had an explanation of why Americans don't eat mutton as much as Europeans. It had to do with English embargoes of American wool. I can't remember the specifics but it was something like this:
Raising sheep is only profitable if it's for both wool plus meat. England passed laws against importation of American wool. That made cattle, chicken and pigs more profitable for American farmers in the 19th century.
From that point it was an issue of passing down eating habits from one generation to another.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:42 am to Dandy Lion
Indeed. We get whole lamb from the Syrians, they make some killer pita too
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:51 am to Zach
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why Americans don't eat mutton as much as the English.
Mutton- old arse lamb (more like a sheep)
This post was edited on 4/24/15 at 11:54 am
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:55 am to Zach
That's interesting and makes sense... This is a total guess, but I also think that we just have a lot of land conducive to ranching cattle. Many other places have terrain that's only conducive to herding sheep/goats, but we have huge expanses of flat plains. Combine that with Spanish settlement in the west, we developed our cow culture.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:59 am to Dandy Lion
I've bought lamb from the Sam's clubs in Kenner and Covington but I couldn't find it at the clubs in Baton Rouge or Houston. I'm not sure they all carry it.
Sam's lamb from New Zealand is great.
Sam's lamb from New Zealand is great.
This post was edited on 4/24/15 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 4/24/15 at 12:05 pm to Nawlens Gator
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New Zealand
Yeah, in the US market, this looks to be from where it all comes.
This post was edited on 4/24/15 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 4/24/15 at 12:36 pm to OTIS2
quote:Costco too. I buy racks of lamb from Costco all the time. One of my favorite dishes. Costco also regularly stocks leg of lamb.
Join Sam's Club
And I can get lamb shanks at my local Ralphs, although I'm not really sure how to cook them.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 12:37 pm to L.A.
Do an osso bucco style recipe with the shanks. Money.
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