Rack of Lamb, Seared Ahi, and Veal Marrow
Dinner with friends last night. The idea was to have a few different "appetizer" dishes and a salad. I did rack of lamb and cracked pepper crusted seared sushi grade ahi tuna. My friend Robert roasted some veal marrow and Julie did a wonderful cheese plate that I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of. Beatrice put together a salad with butter lettuce, baby spinach and radishes.
For the rack, in the oven at 350 with a temperature probe until internal is 125. Sear the outside a bit if you want, slice it and grate some parmesan on it. In the meantime, crack some peppers (I use one of those mixes with several different kinds of pepper corns), get the cast iron smoking hot (I used lard) and then sear each side for exactly 90 seconds. As always, click on the photos for the high resolution lightbox.
Rack of Lamb
Seared Ahi
Veal Marrow
Butter Lettuce Salad
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Looks Delish!!!!
wow, that’s quite the spread, next time I am in the Bay Area… 🙂
OK, my dinner service at Clear Lake in July is off, Your doing the cooking. That looks really delicious.
Looks fantastic Richard. Was the bone roasted for long and was there any preparation? Looks like there’s nothing on them at this point. Thanks for the pics, as always. Inspiring carnivory.
Juan, the veal bones were roasted at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes. They were served with a traditional topping of flat leaf parsley, shallots, rock sea salt, lemon juice, capers and EVOO.
http://www.grouprecipes.com/35321/roasted-marrow-bones.html
Recipes vary with regard to bone marrow, from 450 for 10-15 minutes to 350 for 45 minutes.
The bones cost about $1.50/lb.
I had no luck with the “knuckle” part of the bones…the ball socket at the ends of the femurs. These simply wouldn’t soften up. The only bone sections that worked were the middle sections between the two ends.
I’ll make a demi-glace with the bones that didn’t work. Many restaurants roast the bones before using them to make stock anyways.
Thanks for the elaboration! Keep the food porn comin’.
So how does everyone ‘eat’ their marrow? I have had it years back but at that time I spread it on toast. Same with tartar. But I cannot seem to bring myself to eat it ‘plain’ and cannot come up with a good pairing idea. Thoughts? Or do I just need to suck it up and eat it as is (no pun intended)?
V, it’s all the same Iordoal, just different retailers. I get from Amazon for the convenience of having CC and delivery address details stored so I can buy in a click or two.
Oh, dinner w/ friends, huh? Good idea.
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