Lamb Throwdown

[indiglo_i]

Last week crazycrazy posted a tale of lamb woe and salvation. The post made me hungry and gave me a serious case of lamb-envy... so this weekend I did my own rack of lamb. Unfortunately I'm not so artistic at plating:

Comments

[ink_13]

Methinks this post exceeds its quota of hyphens and/or dashes.

Good looking lamb, though.

[indiglo_i]

Hmmm you're right. Just when I kicked that nasty ellipses habit too!

Which ones are unnecessary?

1) lamb-envy (lamb envy)
2) olive-oil (olive oil)
3) rack-o-lamb (rack o' lamb)
4) bell-pepper (bell pepper)

I'm thinking that "store-bought", "mixed-green" and "freshly-chopped" are all pretty valid.

[ink_13]

Technically, you can keep them all, it just makes you look quaint.

My style guide says only "lamb-envy" and "store-bought" pass high-falutin' muster. "Mixed-green" is on the fence for me; instinctually, I'd say no, but to really avoid ambiguity, one could say "a salad of mixed greens".

That's enough pedantry for one day, I think, and it's not even lunchtime yet.

[robbat2]

Ok, my turn this coming weekend then.

If I'd know this was going to turn into a contest, I'd have taken a photo of the nicely rare roast beef I cooked last night.

[crazycrazy]

No no no no. Beef does not lamb make. Cows are too big. Moo.

Though I'm sure it was a nice roast. :)

[robbat2]

I meant that I'd do lamb this coming weekend.

I only did roast beef last night as I realized it had been nearly 3 years since I last cooked one.

[crazycrazy]

Eh, I just I meant that your photo, while good, would have been disqualified in this lamb contest.

No lamb update. What's up with that, sir? Hrm? HRRMMMMM??