Comments on: Of lamb shanks, polenta, pears and luscious vanilla…

By: Amelita (Squishy)

Amelita (Squishy) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:18:37 +0000

Lamb shanks are awesome. I made a lamb shank lasagne the other day. I braised them in the oven for hours with fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic and a couple of bay leaves. It was truly beautiful. Your shanks look wonderful but I am not a big fan of polenta. Well done you can cook other things rather than sweets LOL But the sweet stuff is the good stuff

By: Y

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:23:56 +0000

Mm… polenta macarons… Neil, I think you might be on to something there! ;P

By: Veron

Veron — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:45:13 +0000

Happy birthday to your mom. I must say Duncan that whole spread is impressive. We just made lamb shanks last weekend…and I love it…that's why I'm drooling all over this!

By: neil

neil — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:05:24 +0000

No Y, Duncan can't cook. Otherwise he would have turned the lamb and asparagus into a filling to sandwich between polenta macarons! Just kidding. Happy birthday to your mum too and isn't that La Spinetta great, I bought some as well.

By: Y

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:54 +0000

Why Duncan, you cook? I had no idea!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:11:04 +0000

You're welcome to Vida:)

By: vida

vida — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:49:25 +0000

Duncan, everything looks fabulous… I might call on you about those vanilla beans myself!!! Vida x

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:50:51 +0000

Hey Thanh. I bought the vanilla beans from vanillaplantations.com — Aus-based company importing from PNG (though they hide that well). I found out about them over at Winos and Foodies (but read the comments too). They worked out (in my shipment) at just under $1 each, so if you want some, drop me a line… I have rather a lot of them.

By: Thanh

Thanh — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:20:24 +0000

The lamb shanks look good, but I too am more devoted to the sweet side of cooking. Who says man cannot survive on chocolate and cake alone. I must do an experiment.

Which website did you buy the vanilla beans from. I have been looking to buy some. I went to Oasis Bakery (a middle Eastern store that sells really cheap nuts and spices) but even their beans were a costly $5 per bean. I could not justify putting a whole bean into my cupcakes and panna cotta for that price.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:36:29 +0000

Adoptions are out of the question. One family is quite enough However, I know that Sarah over at Sarah Cooks does much more impressive celebration menus, so you could ask her, ut si

There's actually not so much meat on the shanks. These lambies were quite thick-of-ankle. Hehe. Manggy and I will have to think up a patisserie chain spanning Manila and Melbourne.