Main: 8Hr Lamb
Northern Beaches Cooks

Dessert:  Orange Curd Tiramisu
Delicious – July issue

Hi Everyone!

A cold snap has set in on us right when we escaped lockdown so I was glad when the family asked me to cook lamb this week.  My favourite way to cook lamb is slowly and this recipe is super easy and very, very tasty.  It comes from the Northern Beaches Cooks cookbook which was produced by a local school to raise money and has done very well.  It’s another one of those meals that make it easy to gather the family for a no-fuss evening, however, because the lamb is cooking away for 8 hours, you do have to be there.  In other words, you can’t just throw this one on after work.  It simply involves placing a leg of lamb in an oven bag after having inserted garlic and rosemary into about 10 slits made into the skin of the lamb leg.  Two onions sliced and two cans of chopped tomatoes.  100°c for 8 hours and you’re done.  I served this on a mash made from potato, parsnip and cauliflower.  So the MAV got his veg without even knowing it.  It doesn’t need gravy because the lovely sauce from the cooking juices combined with the onion and tomato is enough.  10/10

AND, just when you thought there can’t be another new way to make tiramisu, Delicious Magazine will put out a series of wonderfully different recipes to create tiramisu like you have never tasted before.  In the 2021 July issue there are some fabulous versions and the one involving orange curd stood out to me.  It is by Jaci Koludrovics and I was so excited to try this but also a little daunted.  At first I thought it was rather complicated but in fact, once I started to create it, I found it wasn’t all that difficult.  The size of the container is the issue.  Please make sure you don’t use one that is too small because it will ruin the whole thing for you.  I really enjoyed making this dessert.  It’s creative and different with a number of steps so you need to start the day before.

Mine certainly didn’t look like the picture and I think that was because whilst I let the curd settle in the fridge for the suggested amount of time, it was too soft when I put the mascarpone topping on.  So the answer to this would be to leave it over night which I will do next time.  This dessert does not only have coffee to add flavour but a great deal of alcohol.  It’s absolutely scrumptious but perhaps not a dessert for the littlies.  Anyway, it was very well received and scored 9/10.

So, until next week….

From my table to yours with love x