On Wed 08 Apr 2009 06:02:33p, Dave Smith told us...

> Terry wrote:
>> Wife bought a couple of nice-sized lamb chops which will be Easter
>> dinner. Trouble is that we've never made lamb before and are not sure
>> what to have with it. Suggestions? Comments? Physical threats? :-)
>
> I would suggest that anything that you usually eat with red meats would
> be fine with lamb. I like to have asparagus with lamb, and a salad with
> blue cheese dressing. If you are using mint in the cooking I wouldn't
> worry too much about wine. Any decent full bodied red would be fine.
> There is no point in going overboard with a wine because the mint will
> obliterate the nuances.

I agree with asparagus, and I'd also want butter roasted new potatoes. I
like a mint sauce (not mint jelly) served with it.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.