Friday January 25, 2013

Dinner for 3

Salt Crusted Lamb with Pomegranate Reduction

Blood Orange and Rocket Salad 

Roasted Beetroot

Pavlova

January 26th is Australia Day!! Since by Friday Night Dinner time here it is already Australia Day down under I am having a dinner celebrating that day.  We spent 6 years living in Australia and my youngest was born there so Australia holds a special place in my heart.

 Lamb is a traditional item for Australia Day BBQ, they even run commercials , but since it is -15 degrees Celsius with a wind chill making it seem like -24 I am not barbequing today.  Instead I salt crusted the lamb and roasted the entire rack.  Pomegranates always remind me of our days in Adelaide as a tree grew between our yard and the neighbours.  Come March they fruit would start bursting open (all those I hadn't picked) and the beautiful rainbow Lorakees would fill the tree to eat.

The lamb was so moist and tasty, this is my sons new favourite way to eat lamb.


I LOVE beetroot.  I LOVE it roasted.  I am the only one in the family so this is all for me.

Roasted beetroot topped with some radish micro greens. YUMMY!!!

Finally to finish off dinner is a simple rocket (arugula is what they call it in North America) and blood orange salad with a vinaigrette made from the juice. The rocket wasn't as peppery as the wild rocket I would eat in Australia but I know I can get that in the summer here.

Whoops, I didn't take a shot of the salad, you can kind of see it behind the wine we drank.

Attempted my first Pavlova here.  I could always buy meringues in Australia so I had never made one from scratch.  Turns out it wasn't that hard at all.  I had no luck finding passion fruit so I muddled some raspberries instead and topped it off with more fresh raspberries.  Tasty!