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Lindsey's Lamb Burgers
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Lamb Burgers How long does it take? 25 minutes Name: Lindsey Why is it a favorite meal? Fast, delicious and healthy! This is a great late summer recipe that uses items on hand from the garde...

Good Question: How Do I Cook Tender Lamb?

Whitney needs some advice on cooking lamb. Can you help? She writes:We've been trying to eat more sustainably, and to that end, bought a butchered half lamb. The only problem is, it's very stringy. ...

Leftovers Recipe: Lamb Pitas with Cucumber Mint Tzatziki

Do you have any lamb left over from Easter dinner? Did you roast a big leg and now have a lot of delicious tender meat sitting in the fridge? Well, we have just the recipe for the leftovers. ...

Good Food Picks for Springtime

Springtime is here! Finally, we can put away the cold of winter and welcome in the sun and fresh air. This is the time of the year for things like fiddlehead ferns, ramps, tender peas and shoots, an...

Recipe: Simplest Cinnamon Lamb Stew

It's Passover and Easter this week, so I can't not give you a lamb recipe. Here's a really easy one. I took the concept of Marge Piercy's Cinnamon Lamb in her book, Pesach for the Rest of Us, and app...

More Easter Lamb: 5 Easy Recipes for Your First Time

Are you planning lamb for Easter lunch? Are you considering it but feeling nervous because you've never cooked it before? Braising a lamb shank or cooking some lamb chops in a fry pan is really no mor...

Recipe: Windowsill Herb Garden Lamb and Potatoes

Are you making lamb for Easter or Passover? This traditional meat is very easy to prepare; its rich taste and tender texture almost always come through. It's certainly easier than the Thanksgiving tu...

How To Make a Butter Lamb for Easter

Take a look at this butter lamb, sent to us by reader Ron. A butter lamb on the Easter table is an old Polish Catholic tradition. Usually people make a butter lamb using a mold, but Ron says that this...

Lamb Tips and Recipe: Adobo Crusted Lamb Loin Chop

We haven't talked much about lamb yet this week; the lure of bacon and pork products is strong. But lamb, while not as popular as pork and beef, is really the meat I personally eat most frequently. It...

Recipe: Mini Rack of Lamb with Nutty Beluga Lentils and Sautéed Garlic Spinach

Yesterday we reviewed Cooking for Two, by Jessica Strand. This very pretty little book has a small, well-edited selection of meals for two. There was one recipe in particular that we really liked, esp...

Marin Sun Farms

One of our favorite vendors at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market is Marin Sun Farms. Marin Sun is a local family farm in Marin County, California that raises organic, grass-fed cattle, pigs, goat, lamb...

Meat CSA's in the San Francisco Bay Area

We love CSA's because we believe in supporting our local farmers and we love getting fresh produce delivered to us direct from the farmer. Now, those of us in most Bay Area locations can have local m...

Food Science: Lamb, Dark Blood, and Shelf Life

Yesterday we were at the grocery buying lamb for an evening supper. There was only a small selection of lamb loin cuts and chops, and we asked the butcher if they had more. She said no, and then she t...

Word of Mouth: Fell

Fell (noun): The papery, porous membrane covering the fat and muscle of lamb and mutton. This membrane is incredibly high in lanolin. This might be a desirable ingredient in soap and candles, but whe...

San Francisco Chronicle: Food Section Roundup

This week in the San Francisco Chronicle Food section: prepared foods for Passover, two recipes for lamb, spoonbread, and more....

In Season: Spring Lamb

At the Ferry Building Farmer's Market on Saturday, we saw a lot of fresh, organic spring lamb being sold by local farmers. ...

Weekend Cooking: How to Make Curry

...and make your whole house smell warm and spicy. A slow, well-braised curry, with chunks of lamb that fall apart and practically melt in your mouth, is a favorite weekend cooking project. There's ti...

Recipe: Lamb Ragú

Rich, meaty ragú is not hard to make. The active part of this recipe comes together quickly, and then it sits and simmers all afternoon in the oven or all day in the slow cooker. When the mea...