If you don’t like lamb, I don’t even know what to say to you. I don’t even know who you are.
Lamb is a delicious meat. I particularly like ground hamburger lamb. Scrumptious!
Buy local if you can. You know, just because. If you can’t buy local then you definitely want New Zealand lamb. Don’t get Australian lamb, it’s old and tastes like mutton.
Form the ground lamb into patties. Cook on medium heat in your favorite skillet. Add salt and pepper and garlic to taste.
When the patties are done, remove from pan. Add some of your favorite red wine to the leftover fat and crispy bits. Pour over the patties.
For bonus points add some deli mustard, pickles, and slices of fine Irish cheddar (like Kerrygold). If you really want to turn it up to 11, add some slices of pastured bacon.
This. This is the best thing I’ve ever cooked. Lamb is rapidly becoming my favorite meat.
Four days in Truckee was good for the soul. We sat near the fireplace and watched the snow fall quietly. Yum fed all our food to the neighborhood doggies. I took Yum for a nice long walk in a snowstorm.
Tuesday night was our last night and I wanted a nice dinner. Well, and I wanted to do some gambling.
We drove to Reno and had a fantabulous meal at Louis’ Basque Corner, a stone’s throw from the Silver Legacy. This is the second time we’ve eaten there and both times have been awesome. You see, Yum’s grandfather was full-on Basque. And Yum loves her some good ol’ Basque food, particularly lamb. And this joint in Reno has the best lamb of all the Basque restaurants we’ve been to over the last two years.
After dinner we went to my favorite casino, the Silver Legacy. We played some slots and called it a night.
On the way home it started to snow really bad. They stopped us in Verdi, just after Boomtown and Cabela’s.
“Road’s closed,” the CalTrans worker told us. “It’s a whiteout. Multiple accidents. A semi jack-knifed and cars are piled up. No idea when it will be open.”
Shit. This is bad. We have to leave tomorrow. We have to get out of the Sierras. I have to work on Thursday! I can’t be stuck in Reno, waiting for this storm to pass. We turned around and started driving back to Reno, weighing our options.
We spent the next 2 hours at Boomtown playing craps and more slots. We decided to try one more time before heading back to Reno (to use Yum’s employee discount at the Marriott).
This time we were able to convince the guy at the chain control checkpoint to let us through. We promised that we weren’t trying to get over Donner Summit, we’re just going to Truckee.
There were times when we had to drive under 10 miles an hour, the blizzard was so bad, but we finally made it back to the cabin. And the next morning it was a blue-bird day, sunny and warm(er). The roads were plowed, highway 80 was open, and we drove home to Vacaville easily.
No pics this time, but I do have a short movie of some howlin’ wind.
