Lamb lovers

I love lamb.. (thri donot read this)

i love that it has a natural succulence unlike chicken or turkey where you have to inject flavor into it. The slow cooked lamb was the highlight of the meal. All i did was rub a shoulder of lamb with salt and pepper with some olive oil and crushed garlic. I then added a whole load more of unpeeled garlic and a bunch of fresh fennel. I then placed it in a baking dish covered it with foil and put it in the oven for 4 hours.
When i took it out the meat was falling off the bone.. ~heaven~ The unpeeled garlic was all mushy with oozing garlic paste :D sigh if food could be sexy. THAT was sexy

The rest of the meal included some super simple dishes such as spinach and beef cannelloni that i've made one too many times and this EXTREMELY simple vegetable dish. Seriously this is the most easy recipe ever! And what was even more awesome was that it was bloody good! I couldnt come up with any good vege recipes so i took this recipe off the net. Since then i have made it thrice and i love how easy it is to make.
You HAVE to try it! use fresh vegetables instead though

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Campbells-Swiss-Vegetable-Casserole/Detail.aspx

The vegetables were baked in cream, cheese and condensed soup and yes it was rich and fabulous! :D

we all have to eat

I cant wait to go back home so i can cook in peace in my kitchen with my ingredients! counting down the days..
Summer this year, Kevin was in Oman. so i had this dinner thing for his family and duvs (sadly he was back in Australia). I wanted to make a full menu and after hours of contemplation i finally decided on the menu. I had seen Jamie Oliver make this slow cooked lamb on Tv and i wanted to try it out. Boys love their meat so its was the perfect opportunity. I know most of your'll might think slow cooked lamb is the easiest thing in the world and yes it is, but i decided to put it on the blog because i turned out so beautifully and it tasted divine!
before i continue on however i must apologize for my horrible photo taking skills. I do promise ill pay more attention to my photographs from now on. :)

Kevin at dinner (this picture was originally taken as kavin's attempt to make davyn jealous but he never saw it. Oh well :) now i hope he will)

So for appetizers decided to make something very simple. Smoked salmon with chili feta and a cold pea soup. sadly i sort of ran out of time making the appetizers and i couldnt cut out the circles of salmon as i had initially planed so it ended up looking like this below

It tasted good and yes it didnt look so bad but oh well time management problems :S