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Post by sixshot on Jun 20, 2012 22:29:27 GMT -5
Its funny, as we get older how our tastes change. I never use to like lamb when I was younger but now I love lamb chops. I picked up a couple of legs of lamb, if you've done this you know what they cost! The bigger one was 8-9 lbs & thats the one I dropped on the gas grill. First I made a bunch of slits in the fatty part, after trimming much of the fat first. In the slits I put slivers of garlic, & rosemary sprigs, some people also use olives, I didn't. Using a brush of rosemary leafs I basted the entire piece with olive oil, crushed rosemary, salt & pepper. My gas grill has 3 burners, I lit all 3, got everything hot & then placed the lamb on the far left burner & then turned the left & middle burner off. This gave me a constant temp of about 350 degrees. Every half hour I would baste the lamb with olive oil, salt & pepper, yum. After 2 hours I had an enternal temp of 160 degrees, about medium, pulling the lamb off the grill I let it rest for 15 minutes while I rounded up some fighting gear (a fork) didn't need a knife. I told the grandkids it was pork, they dove in like wolf pups, didn't take long to slick it up. A few dutch oven taters & a bisquit & I felt like a seal. Pretty good fathers day present, even if I had to do it myself. Dick
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Post by maxcactus on Jun 21, 2012 0:19:37 GMT -5
Oh HECK yes!!! Fantastic write up (again) Dick, even if it ain't a huntin' story. I was in the same boat until 3-4 years ago - didn't much like lamb, too gamey. My then 15 y.o. Daughter (quite the cook even then) convinced me to buy one @ Costco after finding a recipe in a Williams Sonoma cookbok I bought her for Christmas. I threw it on a mesquite grill after her meticulous prep work and it was some of the tastiest, most tender meat I've ever had! Now, we do a LoL 3-4x/year. Always yummy and a great excuse to try some new wine pairings!! ;D Thanks again, Dick! Always feel like I was there w/you after reading your stories!!
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Jun 21, 2012 6:18:18 GMT -5
You're a classy eater, Dick. You're right, though ... I can get a whole beef tenderloin for about 3 bucks less a pound than a leg of lamb. And I do know how to eat a filet!
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Post by ChrisO on Jun 21, 2012 7:13:31 GMT -5
Sixshot, THANK YOU so much for this! Expensive but so worth it...I was trying to smell the picture! :-D Chris
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Post by zac0419 on Jun 21, 2012 7:32:25 GMT -5
I never really had a taste for lamb because it's not something I grew up eating. After working overseas a few years I never pass up an opportunity to get some medium charred lamb chops. I've never had a leg of lamb like that but that picture is making my mouth water.
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Post by sixshot on Jun 21, 2012 14:26:19 GMT -5
I priced a leg of lamb at the store the other day, it was $63! Wow, its high but I sure do like it anymore. Soda Springs is one of the sheep capitals of the US & even here its more than a tenderlion like Ken said. Lamb chops with mint jelly is simply outstanding but they sure are proud of it.
Dick
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Post by wickerbill on Jun 24, 2012 22:41:00 GMT -5
Dick, that almost looks good enough to lick the screen. Bill PS:The way you write, you need to be writing for a living.
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Post by Snyd on Jun 25, 2012 17:48:55 GMT -5
mmmmm looks and sound good....I like sheep myself. ;D Here's my favorite recipe... Ingredients.... 1 or 2 dead Dall Sheep 1 fire Optional Ingredients pinch of salt hunting partner Tenderloins and backstrap. (me on the left) RIBS!! Ribs and heart My partner getting after the heart!
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Post by sixshot on Jun 25, 2012 20:08:04 GMT -5
Snyd, I hate you! ;D I've heard sheep ribs (mountain sheep) are the best there is, sure would like to try them sometime but probably getting too old. Those 2 Dalls, maybe 38 & 36 inches? Great job, both of you, it doesn't get any better than that. Hunted the south fork of the Kuskikuim several years ago, seen several rams but no tag, dang it! Also saw a nice grizz. He was close enough the barrel went limp on my pistola.
Dick
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Post by squawberryman on Jun 25, 2012 20:08:15 GMT -5
you taking orders for grip slabs?!
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Post by Snyd on Jun 25, 2012 20:50:44 GMT -5
sixshot, ya, mine still had the lamb tips, just over full curl, 37inchs. Average ram. My buddies was a broomer and at least 10 years old. He even walked with a limp. Probably wouldn't have made it another year. That was DCUA walk in hunt. We biked and hiked about 25 miles one way and then went up.
squawberryman. I've only killed one ram, well one plus my buddy wounded one, ran out of bullets it was headed for no mans land so I polished it off. I've gutted, packed and ate about 7 I think. No way my sheep horns are coming off the wall! I need to find a winter kill horn this summer/fall.
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Post by robl on Jun 26, 2012 0:13:52 GMT -5
That is classic! Looks like a great hunt.
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Post by Snyd on Jun 26, 2012 1:08:17 GMT -5
Ya, I love sheep hunting. Those pics were 3 different hunts, 4 rams.
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