Yumm!!

Well, dinner last night was a success!

The Honey and Wine Lamb Ribs really turned out well.  I basically followed the recipe, but I had it on low on the crockpot for about 5 hours.

DELICIOUS.


I get what some of the reviewers mean when they complain about lamb ribs.  Lamb ribs are a fatty cut of meat, which is why I was glad that there was only the little slab of it (the picture has half of it on there, since Will and I split it.)  It's not a cut I would have chosen myself, but I'm happy that I was "forced" to try them out by getting some from my meat CSA.  Would I run out and buy them every week?  Nope.  But would I be annoyed if we got more from the meat CSA?  Nope!

As for the honey/wine/soy sauce combination, I think i will be trying it out again.  Methinks it would be good with lots of things: pork, lentils, beans....

::does a happy dance remembering the lamb ribs and how good they were::


Crockpot apple crisp also turned out great.  We each had a bowl of it, and shared some with the baby.  I told Will that there was only enough for a little bit for each of us since I made it in my tiny crockpot, and he was quite sad.


I suppose that means I'll have to make it again.  Soon. 


And I lied about my oatmeal recipes.  I said I would make them last night, but then I looked in the fridge and saw that Will still had several Pyrex containers of steel cut oats left to eat.  (I generally make a huge batch on the weekends and he has lots of leftovers for the week.)  SO we'll be waiting a few more days to try it out...


BUT for now.... I got to thinking about chicken.  I saw one of those commercials for the Philadelphia cooking creme where the lady was like: "there are thousands of ways to cook chicken and I only know two of them" and I thought to myself "how true."


What if I tried to cook chicken every single day, in some different way, for a month?  And then what if I tried to do that with other ingredients, too?  Like, apples during the fall?  And then pumpkin?  Turkey?  Lentils?  Beans?  My husband suggested pineapple month, which seemed a bit much, but you get the idea.  A month seemed reasonable.  I don't think I could do a year of chicken every day, though I think my husband could easily do a year of pineapple every day.


I'm sure there would be major flops.  But I also think that I would really learn something in the mean time.  I don't pretend to really know how to cook.  I don't pretend that I don't have to Google simple, simple things.


Like how to braise meat.


Or how to roast beets.  (seriously, I didn't know how.  but it's super easy and they are VERY tasty.)


So I'd likely learn a lot, and we'd likely have a few nights of questionably palatable dinners.


Seems like I should go for it.  Let the menu planning begin!