Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

MacBeath, in Berkeley super nice board.
With the Bubinga neck should be Gorgeous
Here's the whole board.
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What are the dimensions of these boards? I’m wondering if the intent is to resaw and book match?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Mutton is pretty hard to find in the States.

Some people are mutton dressed as lamb.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Some people are mutton dressed as lamb.

More who are, and act, the opposite.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

What are the dimensions of these boards? I’m wondering if the intent is to resaw and book match?

8/4 @ 1 3/4 before resurface . So no resaw.
About 9" wide. Plane and join.

 

[SoulReflection]

Mutton is pretty hard to find in the States.

That's because they call it "Lamb"...

 

[StereoPlayer]

That's because they call it "Lamb"...

For a change of pace I had some lamb chops a couple of months ago.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I roasted a rack of lamb that was on sale, and then didn't touch it. It became several Chinese dinners.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Mutton is pretty hard to find in the States.

My SO's father used to have to eat it when he was stationed in the South Pacific. Lots of loving (NOT) stories about eating it.

I roasted a rack of lamb that was on sale, and then didn't touch it. It became several Chinese dinners.

I can't recall a single Chinese dish with lamb in it! Examples?

 

[beans-on-toast]

I can't recall a single Chinese dish with lamb in it! Examples?

10 Tasty Chinese Lamb Recipes to Spice up Your Dinner

 

[Jeff Scott]

10 Tasty Chinese Lamb Recipes to Spice up Your Dinner

Not in any restaurant I've been to!

I'll ask around the T'day dinner tomorrow, Chinese family, after all.

Maybe, I need to get out more?

 

[biguglyman]

That's because they call it "Lamb"...

Lamb is generally the younger (less than a year) animal. Mutton is from sheep older than 1.

 

[Jeff Scott]

"Mary had a mu-uh-ton....."

 

[biguglyman]

You know why you don't keep a goat corralled in with your sheep? He could ram a lamb yah ding-dong...

 

[5StringBlues]

Ba-a-a-ad.

 

[GonePlaid]

You know why you don't keep a goat corralled in with your sheep? He could ram a lamb yah ding-dong...

Said he, sheepishly.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My SO's father used to have to eat it when he was stationed in the South Pacific. Lots of loving (NOT) stories about eating it.
I can't recall a single Chinese dish with lamb in it! Examples?

My source is the Julia Child of the Chinese kitchen, Pei Mei. I've one of her books here as a .pdf but it's too big to upload for ye. I know I found it on a search ....

The rack of lamb I disposed of is now part and parcel of a huge dish of Mapo Tofu. It's very rare to find a restaurant that prepares it properly. It's always listed as a vegetarian dish, and is served with broccoli. Nothing wrong with that except that it's wrong.

Arguably Mapo Tofu with lamb is wrong. And yet ... lamb is often featured on the Western Chinese table. There's always room for a little improvisation too, that's what cooking is. I used fermented black beans in chili oil with mine. It's all about the balance of sensation. There's the heat from the chili peppers, the numbing feeling from the Sichuan peppercorns, and there's the salty from the fermented black beans ... for umami I add the very inauthentic fish sauce.

That is part of my meal today!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Quite an exposition there on Chinese cooking

Somewhere in my early teens I was gifted with a copy of Pei Mei's cookbook. Took to it like a duck to water. Learned a lot of basics. To this day I rarely consult a cookbook, save for when I need to know oven temperature. My signature dish ... possibly risotto

 

[StereoPlayer]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Shorpy.com
July 1940. "Spanish-American boy eating sweet corn which he has roasted on top of hot stove. Chamisal, New Mexico." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Apparently kids are concerned about covid and Santa coming into their home. In a news story issued by a hospital, they tested Santa and the results are negative for covid. That’s a sigh of relief.

He is offering virtual visits as well as safe distancing ones.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I just bought a corn peeler. Haven’t tried it yet.

Also got a julienne slicer for making coleslaw. These Australian slicers work pretty well.