
My dad has been looking forward to grilled lamb while here in Pittsburgh. Not lamb chops but a lamb roast. We have a gas grill. Dad has a charcoal grill. Since it's more difficult to grill a lamb roast on charcoal, he only does lamb chops. So we decided that last night would be lamb roast night.
At 6:30 the lamb was done. We all gathered around the table on the deck - it was a beautiful sunny, warm day - and after letting the roast rest for a bit, SP sliced it. Delicious. You can see how juicy the meat was in the photo - it ran all over the cutting board and overflowed onto the table!! The tomato-mozzarella salad was a very nice accompaniment.
Dessert was fresh blueberries and cherries with whipped cream, but after all the lamb (and a couple glasses of a delicious wine - Gabbiano Chianti Classico), I forgot to photograph dessert!!!
SP marinated the roast in our usual lamb marinade and around 5 pm he put it on the grill. I like my meat well-done while dad & SP like theirs rare. The lamb roast from Costco is nice because once you remove the netting, there's 2 halves and, in all the roasts we've bought, one half is smaller than the other. This means that the small half can be well-done for me and the larger half rare for dad & SP and the cooking time can stay the same.
Mom & I made a sliced tomato-fresh mozzarella-fresh basil salad with some kalamata olives in the center. The basil we bought at Lowe's is doing quite well so I pinched off about 6 nice, big, green leaves and chopped them. We drizzled the salad with a balsamic syrup that SP made. He heats equal parts balsamic vinegar and sugar until the sugar dissolves, cools it, and then puts it in a squeeze bottle so we always have some on hand.


Mmmmmmmmm...lamb... :)
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