In article >,
Janet Wilder > wrote:

> Jean B. wrote:
> > Janet Wilder wrote:
> >> cshenk wrote:
> >>> "Billy" wrote
> >>>
> >>>> "cshenk" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> the cheapest meat in Sasebo
> >>>>> Japan.
> >>>> How many on RFC live there? Just an East Tennessee native and our
> >>>> cheapest meat might be possum.
> >>>
> >>> Grin, you'd be suprised! One of the others said cheap dish used
> >>> lamb. Not likely to have been living in the USA. This is a global
> >>> community, not all are USA (or Canada) folks. Another cheap meat in
> >>> Japan was shrimp.
> >>
> >> I was the one who used one lamb shank. Lamb shank at that time (early
> >> 1980's) was cheap meat. I was living in New Jersey, which, I believe
> >> was still part of the US at the time <vbg>
> >>
> >>
> > Ah yes, I also like lamb riblets--which I can't even find. Maybe I can
> > get them from someone at a farmer's market. I have this Indonesian
> > recipe...
> >
>
> They sell breast of lamb here for a very reasonable price. It must
> figure into a Mexican or Border dish that I don't know about. It looks
> very fatty, though.

It is very fatty. Mom used to make stew out of them, but she'd roast
them first in the oven with a lot of water to render off most of the fat.

She made the most divine "shepherds stew" out of lamb breast.

The rendered fat was hard as candle wax... We'd mix it hot with bird
seed and put it out for the wild birds in cakes.
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