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Because if you do it three times a day, you might as well get it right!Archive for Al Fresco
Lamb steaks with mint and lemon
Found a great lamb recipe by Nigel Slater some time ago that I keep meaning to post. It’s amazingly easy and results in a delicious sauce with flavours that let you imagine your eating al fresco in a vineyard in Greece or something. I got this from the BBC Food website and it takes about 30 mins from start to finish.
The lamb comes out tasting absolutely delicious if you get the heat right. You get a nice brown glazing and tasty rosy meat inside. To get this effect you have to make sure the heat is hot enough to brown the meat but not so hot it’ll singe the mint. The mint and lemon makes a really nice flavouring and once you deglaze the pan with the lemon juice, its nice if you spoon the sauce over the potatoes and meat it brings the dish together perfectly.
Lunch at Itsu
I discovered today that a new sushi place has opened up near work – an Itsu. Having been overdosed with Mediterranean food over the last few weeks, today was the day I fell back off the wagon and shelled out on some nice sushi for lunch.
For £10 with a drink it was more than I’d normally spend on lunch but well worth it all the same (it’s only once everywhile, I tell myself). There’s a reasonably varied menu at the Holborn branch and I got a “Health and Happiness” pack – which consists of tuna and salmon sushi, salmon sashimi, crab and salmon maki rolls.
Sushi’s always nice for a light-ish lunch and since the weather’s nice we ate in the park… 
