Do yourself a favor and don't let the summer go by without trying one of these recipes that mix tender pasture-raised lamb with your freshly picked strawberries.
Give them a go.
Smokin!
Lamb bacon is easy to make, delicious and is well worth the time sitting by the smoker with a couple of beers. Use it in any way you would use bacon - it tastes better.
All you need is:
- 1.5 - 2 pounds of boneless lamb breast, with silver skin in tact (any one of the butchers on our WHERE TO BUY will make this cut for you)
- 5 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons pink curing salt*
- 3 tablespoons Highland Sugarworks Maple Sugar
- 4 dried bay leaves, crushed
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 handfuls of natural apple flavor wood chips
* Get this at your local butcher shop or online. Buy a pound or 2 so you can store it for your next smoking session.
Mix the salts, sugar and pepper together and then crush in the bay leaves.
Pat the lamb dry with a paper towel and dredge through the mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 5 days, turning once per day.
This is what your lamb will look like after 5 days in the fridge. Wash off the salt mixture really well and put back in the fridge, uncovered, for one more night. Then you're ready to smoke it.
Soak 2 handfuls of apple chips for 30 minutes while your smoker heats up. Drain chips and place them in your smoker's wood chip pan. Smoke for 3 hours at a steady 200 degrees. Cool completely in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
Phil's Bacon & Eggs Summer Salad
- Olivia's Garden Mixed Greens, Cherry Tomatoes and Pea Shoots
- Fresh farm eggs - hard boiled
- NSS Smoked Lamb bacon bits
- Other seasonal veggies, as desired
- Gryffon Ridge Spice Merchants Ghost Pepper Salt (use sparingly!)
Mix up and serve with your favorite dressing and Standard Baking's Rosemary Focaccia. Oh, and a beer.
phil's 5 faves for father's day
Yes, it's Father's Day, but dad is still going to want to be the boss of the grill. Gift him one of the juiciest cuts of our lamb, suggest one of these grilled leg recipes, then step out of the way.
Get it at any Rosemont Market, Otherside Deli, Maine Street Meats, The Farm Stand, Bow Street Market, Riverside Butcher Co. or any of the Whole Foods Markets in New England. Deliveries of fresh, pasture-raised lamb are made weekly!
#1 - Barbecued Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Asian Flavors
GRILL IT!
#2 - BBQ Smoked Leg of Lamb
GRILL IT!
#3 - Grilled Leg of Lamb on a Nest of Thyme
GRILL IT!
#4 - Grilled Leg of Lamb with Spiced Mustard and Rosemary
GRILL IT!
#5 - Herb Crusted Leg of Lamb
GRILL IT!
phil's top 5 bro burgers
From Phil's Grill come both words of farming wisdom and Phil-approved recipes, as well as anything related to what makes North Star Sheep Farm the best natural, ethical and sustainable in New England.
In this post - 5 of Phil's favorite burgers grilled and topped with whiskey, bacon, onion rings and other stuff that tastes really, really good. Grill on!
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