Lamb Stew Three Ways

Lamb Stew: The Original Dish

Spousal Unit made lamb stew with polenta. He went out and got the lamb and everything. He got stewing lamb, which is very different than what I get. I usually get lamb shoulder. Spousal Unit didn't know that, though, so he asked the butcher for stewing lamb. What we got was some very tasty meat, but with a lot of bone, grit and fat mixed in. That meant that we paid for a lot of stuff we didn't eat.

The thing with stew, though, is that you can stretch the leftovers.

For example, for lunch today I had the sauce and veg part of the stew on polenta.

Then for dinner, we had fried polenta with leftover lamb meat -- kinda like a lamb-and-polenta hash.

Lamb Stew: Hashed

Lamb Stew: The Microwave Dish

For dessert we had homemade chocolate chunk cookies. They were supposed to be chocolate chip cookies, but I didn't have enough chips, so I took a Lindt 70% chocolate bar, smashed it up, and used the shards in lieu of chips. I guess that means that they were chocolate shard cookies. 

A shard of a chocolate shard cookie

Poutine sounded like a good idea...

So I had lunch at the mall.  I admit it.  I ate poutine.  But there was a good reason for it!  I had been to South Street Burgers the week before and one of my dining-mates ordered poutine.  I didn't even know it was on the menu!  (Because I can't read?  Because I was overwhelmed?)  Hence, when I was at the mall the other day, I said "I'm gonna skip the 'healthy option' and go for poutine!"  It was OK at first.  Then there came a moment where I was like, "There is a lot of starch and fat in my mouth" and I got revolted and stopped eating. 

For supper we had a healthy lamb stew.  It was tasty, but it would have been nicer with polenta to mop up the sauce.