Cook Yourself with Recipe California Farm Valentine’s Lamb Saddle Roast Kids’ Favorite

Ingredients for California Farm Valentine’s Lamb Saddle Roast

1. The roast:
2. 1 Lamb saddle roast, 6 pounds
3. 2 Tbs leek confit oil
4. 1 pinch Very freshly ground black Pepper
5. 1 pinch Flaked Madon seasalt
6. The sausages:
7. 1/2 pound ground lamb
8. 1 Sprig sage
9. 1 Sprig thyme
10. 1 Dash saffron
11. 2 Tbs cold unsalted butter
12. 1/3 cup sherry vinegar
13. 1/3 cup water
14. The appetizer:
15. 2 Avocados
16. 1 Shallot
17. 4 Tbs peeled shrimp
18. 2 Tbs fresh Mayo
19. 1 Dash Pepper, salt, mozambi lime juice
20. The soup:
21. 2 cups Chicken broth consommee
22. 2 Tbs sherry wine
23. The salad:
24. 4 avocados

    California Farm Fresh Fruit Salad

25. 4 butter lettuce leaves
26. 4 slices sweet paprika
27. 4 slices button mushrooms
28. 4 slices fresh mango
29. 4 slices roma tomato
30. 4 Tsp habanero pepper sauce
31. The leeks confit:
32. 4 fresh leeks, white parts with 1” green top
33. 1 cup canola oil
34. 1 cup olive oil
35. 1 dried bay leaf
36. 1 Tsp dried thyme
37. 3 cloves garlic
38. 1 Tsp black peppercorns
39. 1 Tsp flaked seasalt
40. 2 star anise pods
41. 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
42. 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
43. 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
44. The dessert:
45. Tarte Tatin Apple pie

    California Farm Tarte Tatin Apple Pie

46. Equipment: large cast iron skillet, small cast iron saucepan, oven roasting pan, foil, mason jar for leek confit storage, long and short carving knife, 8” deep apple pie springform
47. Cost: lamb roast farm free or $10/pound at the market, ground lamb $3, leeks $2, mango $1, avocados $2, shrimp $4, broth $1, apple pie $4, cherries $2, other $2, dinner per person $10, plus stew

Cooking Instructions for making California Farm Valentine’s Lamb Saddle Roast

1

Place the Valentine Camelia flowers on the dinner table

2

Make the avocado shrimp appetizer from ripe avocado halves. Mix fresh peeled shirmp with mayo, shallot, lime juice, flaked seasalt, ground pepper, stuff avocado halves, serve.

3

Make the chicken broth with sherry wine : heat chicken consommee, add Tbs sherry wine per cup, serve.

California Farm Cornish Chicken Consommé for 2

4

Make the avocado fruit salad with avocado slices on butterleaf lettuce, sweet paprika rings, sliced roma tomatoess, green onion snippets, mango slices, button mushroom slices, slivered fresh basil leaf and meyer lemon juice.

California Farm Fresh Fruit Salad

5

Make the leek oil confit. Keep oil confits sterile, they will last forever. Wash and trim leek, use white part with 1” green trim only. Put in mason jar, top with 1” of oilmix. Make leek soup with leftover green parts. Slice white part lengthwise, stuff in mason jar. Add spices, cover with oil mix, bake 1 1/2 hour at 375F degrees, cool, store in mason jar. Make sure leeks are not exposed to air in jar, by adding oil to jar if needed.

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6

Mix half a pound of ground lamb with chopped onion, saffron, pepper, salt, make 4 sausages, slice on the diagonal. Sear the lamb koobideh sausages with leek confit oil in cast iron pan. Sautee one minute together with the leek confit pieces. Add sage, add thyme, sautee another minute. Deglaze the pan with sherry vinegar and water. Swirl sausage and leek in cold butter and glaze till melted. Pour over leeks and sausages.

California Farm Koobideh Kebab

7

Make the crackling crust. Crisscross the fatcap on the meat. Rub saddle with leek confit oil and very freshly ground black pepper. Broil 15 minutes at 500F degrees in a large oven roasting pan, crisscrossed side up. Take out baking tray, pour off the fat and save, flip meat with tenderloins up. Bake at 250 F degrees, cook till internal temperature is 135F degrees at medium. Estimate half an hour per pound for cooking, 3 hours total. Rest ten minutes.

8

The tenderloins are on the bottom on each side of the saddle. The steaks are on the top. When cooked, trim and serve.

9

Place sausage and leek on center plate. Use long and short carving knife. Carve roasted lamb saddle on its back along the center bone with the short knife, then fold meat back, then use long knife to carve and serve the tenderloins in slices. Place slices on top of leek and sausage.

10

Heat the cherries and syrup in sauce pan to room temperature. Use to decorate around the lamb. Serve dinner.

11

Make tarte tatin apple pie. Slice apples horizontally 1/4” thick, peel on. Bake upside down. Butter, brown sugar, to make caramel base. Apple slices on top. Filo dough on top to seal with butter.

California Farm Tarte Tatin Apple Pie

12

Use the leftover lamb bones and fat to make leftover lamb stew with smokey beans in the dutch oven.

California Farm Leftover Lamb and Bone with Smokey Beans