Rack of lamb with garlic anchovy pesto

This year at the fishing camp I had an opportunity to cook a few meals for our dining room guests. My first dinner and one of my favorite recipes was this one and it is actually very easy to make. Lamb is not the same without this pesto.

Rack of Lamb with Garlic Anchovy Pesto

Ingredients


Anchovy fillets, 4

Garlic, 1 tbsp

Chopped almonds, ½ cup

Mint leaves, ½ cup, Chopped

Olive oil, 2 tbsp

Lamb racks, 3, 8-chop


Instructions

1. Blend pesto ingredients together until well chopped in a blender, spread over lamb racks and marinate for 30-40 minutes. Cover chop bones in tin-foil. Pre-heat oven to 400f (200c). Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper and bake in oven for 30-40 minutes until meat is pink. Cut into chops and eat.


Source: LCBO magazine, Jane

Servings: about 6 people, ½ rack each

Comments: Best lamb recipe I’ve tried

Tip: None.

Hank's Salad

Hank is my sister's dog and he helped me create this easy and delicious salad. He also helped me eat some of it. It is my favorite salad to have for lunch in a hurry. Hank likes it too, but he'll eat just about anything.

Hank’s Salad

Ingredient List

Tomato 1 Chopped up,

Avocado 1 Chopped,

Feta Cheese Crumbled,

Fresh Mushrooms sliced,

Mixed greens or fresh spinach leaves,

Bacon Cooked and chopped roughly (optional),

Sliced almonds toasted


Instructions

1. Mix together. Use olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, garlic (minced), and mustard well blended for dressing or dressing of choice.


Source: Myself, hunger

Servings: Can be single or many depending on how you feel

Comments: Very filling for a salad. Great for lunch

Intro

Most people develop an interest in cooking while they are growing up or they don't. I was never seriously interested in cooking or baking while I was growing up. I dabbled now and then, but my culinary talents amounted to heating up pizza pops in the microwave or making KD. Some of my more ambitious efforts ended in disaster and more often then not heartburn. Then I grew up and I ended up spending a lot of time in a kitchen working at a fly-fishing camp. I worked with the most amazing woman who could make anything. She was an incredible cook and an inspiration to me, and finally, from her, I learned to cook, to improvise, and to have fun while doing it. I want to pass on some of the recipes that I have found and learned. Some are left exactly as I found them and others are tweaked here and there. I will try to include a source with each one to the best of my memory, but some are hard to place so forgive me if I make a mistake or list a recipe under the wrong source.