LAMB SHANKS

[FoxLee2]

i've got some lamb shanks for dinner tonight - not done them before so googled a recipe. I know I have to brown them before slow cooking in oven. Can you tell me if I have to remove the thick skin/white fat covering them first or will they then fall apart before even cooking. Thanks for any answers

[diddlydo]

Slow cook them just as they are. If you don't want to eat the fatty skin, remove it afterwards.

[albaqwerty]

The fat will keep the meat moist.

Enjoy.

[venator]

Save the fatty skinny bits for me, please!

[FoxLee2]

Thank you for all your answers - I'll just leave them as they are then.

Let me have your address venator.......!!

[albaqwerty]

He'll be round at 7pm with a couple of bottles of Vino :-)

[Brenden]

Don't forget the mint sauce - declicious.

[diddlydo]

Definitely DO forget the mint sauce, especially the revolting ready-made stuff!

[friedgreentomato]

oooh mint jelly for me please

[DTCwordfan]

redcurrant jelly or a raspberry chipotle for me......

[FoxLee2]

Sorry it will be the 'revolting Colman's ready-made stuff'. Does that mean you won't be coming now? Actually the lambs shanks are for my husband and two sons, I'm not much of a meat eater, I'll be having chicken.

[sunny-dave]

Cauliflower cheese as a side dish please - chilli jelly too :+)

[whiskeryron]

//I'm not much of a meat eater, I'll be having chicken.//
You'll be having one of those new veggie chickens then !!

W Ron.

[FoxLee2]

Don't be sarky - I didn't say I was a vegetarian, just don't like many meats. Much prefer chicken or fish and lamb always seems so fatty to me.

Can we do a head count please - just how many of you are coming now? Better put two extra leaves into the dining room table and start preparing all these extra side dishes I now have to do. Hubby and sons will be surprised tonight.

[DTCwordfan]

where are you then, FoxLee?

[FoxLee2]

Incidentally, and apropos of nothing to do with lamb shanks, why do people put quote marks like this // // instead of using " ". It looks so odd.

[FoxLee2]

In the South-East, in Hertfordshire, near the Eastenders studio.

[DTCwordfan]

It means that it has been previously cited - and a copy....

[RATTER15]

I want a lamb shank to myself, with roasties cauliflower cheese and plenty of mint sauce (homemade naturally).

[FoxLee2]

I see but don't normal quotation marks say the same thing?

[FoxLee2]

Well, i'd better get off the computer now and start getting busy fulfilling these orders. Where can I get some more lamb shanks at this late date with the supermarkets closed?