The Hackney Butchers Association

This is a very pretty side-dish that works equally well with grilled fish as a lamb steak. It's cheap & quick to make, but looks like it wouldn't be out of place in a bistro.  Not bad for a bit of lettuce! Serves 4 Takes 15minutes Quarter 2 little gem lettuces & toss with a bunch of spring onions & 1 tbsp olive oil. Griddle for a few minutes until seared & golden. Heat 15g butter in a pan. Add juice of 1/2 lime & 1/2 de-seeded finely sliced green chilli. Pout over the vegetables & eat!

   Wow, this is amazing.  It's very easy and fairly cheap. Unlike a lot of curries, this one cooks in around 20mins, (marinading time on top of that). I will be doing this again very soon! The flavours are warm and moreish, cumin, coriander seeds, ginger & toasted oniony rice, chilli & of course lamb! The Coriander sauce is so fresh and healthy it makes you feel like you must have just been to the gym. Well, sort of... (having not been to a gym for at least 10years I'm not an expert...) There are quite a lot of ingredients, but mostly dried spices which last for months and months. The only fresh ingredients I needed to get were fresh coriander (cilantro), mint, & green chillies. You could do this without the fresh coriander sauce but you'd be missing out big time. Make the sauce...make the sauce... I used some suckling lamb chops from a local market. £5 for 2 big chops, not bad I thought... for something quite special and amazingly...

This is really easy & quick. The amounts below feed two but could be very easily scaled up to serve any amount.

I ran out of time the other night with a plan to marinade & BBQ a rabbit.  So instead I tried out a really quick way to cook it up, pot-roasting.  This has the advantage of steaming the rabbit while it roasts, so it doesn't dry up and go tough.  It was pretty damn good if I say so myself! (SERVES 2)  Marinading time: 20mins-24hours / Cooking time:25mins Here's how: INGREDIENTS: 1 large rabbit, or 2 smaller ones 2 handfuls of chopped herbs (I used marjoram & rosemary) 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tbs spoon honey 1 lemon, for zest & juice Olive Oil 2 glasses of wine (i used 1 red/1 white) METHOD: 1. Catch your rabbit (old joke...) 2. Joint your rabbit 3. Marinade rabbit pieces in the herbs, crushed garlic, lemon zest & juice, & honey. Season with salt & pepper.  Leave this for as long as possible, at least 20mins, preferably overnight. 4. Brown the rabbit pieces in a casserole dish (dutch oven) over a fairly high heat unt...