{"id":325,"date":"2009-03-26T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:44:25","slug":"lamb-shanks-and-green-lentils-in-red-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/03\/lamb-shanks-and-green-lentils-in-red-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb Shanks and Green Lentils in Red Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/P1010185.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a lamb kick lately.&nbsp; So while at the Farmer&#8217;s Market at 3rd and Fairfax on Saturday, I picked up a couple lamb shanks at the butcher.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, I looked through my cookbooks to get some ideas on what to do.&nbsp; I ended up deciding on a recipe from <i>How To Cook Everything<\/i> by Mark Bittman, but decided to prepare my shanks for cooking in a way another recipe suggested.&nbsp; I salted the shanks and let them sit for a couple days in the refrigerator&nbsp; before actually cooking.&nbsp; As with most of the recipes in Bittman&#8217;s book, the recipe was pretty simple.&nbsp; Green Lentils, onion, carrot, thyme, bay leaves and the lamb shanks roasted in the oven in red wine.&nbsp; I used an inexpensive ($4.99) Cabernet Sauvignon from Whole Foods.&nbsp; Once in the oven there wasn&#8217;t much left to do but wait.&nbsp; A little over two hours later it was done.&nbsp; The meat was falling off the bone tender, and the lentils had a nice taste from the wine.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll definitely make this again sometime.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a lamb kick lately.&nbsp; So while at the Farmer&#8217;s Market at 3rd and Fairfax on Saturday, I picked up a couple lamb shanks at the butcher. Sunday, I looked through my cookbooks to get some ideas on what to do.&nbsp; I ended up deciding on a recipe from How &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/03\/lamb-shanks-and-green-lentils-in-red-wine\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177,18,178],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-lamb","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}