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Growing up we had lamb for Easter but only occasionally during the rest of the year. Sheep are common in Ireland and Scotland. Our first three years in Scotland we lived in a farm cottage surrounded by 200 cattle and 4,000 sheep. I spent my school spring vacations bottle feeding the pet lambs (those without mothers because of lambing deaths or being a triplet.) DH’s first job there was sheep breeding research. He worked with the team that cloned Dolly.

Wally, I’m glad your DH is going on a treatment that you approve of. Hopefully he will continue to defy the odds.

Dinner tonight was lamb ragu on pappardalle.

Minus, I know they do and I've taken plenty of things back. I'm just reluctant to return food items that I've half eaten just because I didn't like them unless they're spoiled or something. I did return four bottles of wine once because the corks disintegrated in two of them while trying to open them.

Nance - Costco takes back anything for any reason. By all means, return the remaining lamb chops.

On my last trip to Costco I bought lamb chops, which are usually excellent. This batch was not - very gristly and tough. I have four left in the freezer. I'm unsure what I can do to make them better. I usually just grill or reverse sear them to medium rare. A disappointment.

Last night was broccoli cheddar soup with a toasted mini baguette. I think tonight will be a charcoutre garni with bratwurst and country style ribs. I don't have buttermilk or I'd make cornbread. I might do anyway using the milk and lemon juice trick. It's an inferior method IMO but It's worth not making yet another trip to the store.

@maggie15 Sounds good. My DH bar b qued lamb chops just two days ago. We were not raised eating lamb and wanted to try it on our own. We both like our steaks medium well and it was very good. We had it with a baked yam and asparagus.

Eric, LOL.

Dinner tonight was a seasoned butterflied boneless leg of lamb. I braised it in the oven since DH will only eat well done meat. I saw a tip which said to use thick slices of onion instead of a rack in the roasting pan which worked well. The sides were sautéed baby potatoes and asparagus. There is enough left for a couple of meals.