Roast Lamb with a Jam Glaze, A Pretty Table, A Vintage Yacht and the Easter Bunny.

Hello Desirables

Easter can be a bit like that. You can get alot done.  It gives you heaps of blog fodder. The title to this post could have also included nicking flowers from the neighbours again, or had a big fight with Mr Beach House or,  how to cock up a brand new $70 x box game, because I moved the console with the disc inserted.  Amazing what can happen on a four day break.  Yes???  And it's all true.

So first here's the lamb.  I flatted with a girl in Darling Point, when I first moved out of home, in my early twenties. She had worked in country pubs and I saw her doing this to the lamb one night.  I wondered what the hell she was doing and had grave doubts, but I guarantee you, if you do this, it will be the nicest leg of lamb you have ever had.  

Here's how it turns out, the vegies get the glaze as well and it is to die for.  The 'how to' is down below.

And now for the blow up with Mr Beach House.  We were lucky enough to spend the night on this cute as a button vintage yacht, on the sunniest day of the Easter weekend.

Just as we were leaving the house, I pulled Mr Beach House aside and said "I am going to put the Easter eggs in front of the fire place. So what ever you do, don't let the kids back into the house."  He appeared to agree and I went about my business.  I gnawed the end of a carrot and threw it along side for good measure.   Thought about bunny droppings and how possum poo looks similar, but thought better of it and went off on my merry way.

This plan ended up being the best thing ever, because when the kids found them, upon our arrival at home, they were convinced the Easter bunny did exist, because I had not been in the house over night, because we were here on this yacht.  "So he must be real mum".

What I could do with this little beauty

Whilst the chocolate bunnies waited patiently to be found, we had a lovely time eating up a storm

The Galley

Swanning around Pittwater

Watching the sunrise

Checking out the real estate and generally having a wow of a time.

So enter the pretty Easter Tablescape and lunch for 8 the following day back at the Beach House.  Smack bang in the middle of our lamb roast and just before the Easter egg hunt, Mr Beach House decided to tell the biggest Beach House Brat, that The Easter bunny wasn't real and that I had put those eggs in front of the fire place.

I could have whacked him over head with the lamb bone.  My second grade teacher told me Santa Claus wasn't real and it just about shattered me.  So it's very personal.  I reckon if the Beach House Brat knows the Bunny's not real, he will think the same about Santa.  Call me a liar, but I just want the magic to continue.  And of course there is the four year old to think about as well.

I back tracked wildly and my kids trust me big time, so I think I saved the day, although I honestly felt sick.  I ripped in to Mr Beach House later, when the guests had left, telling him that he had no idea the effort that goes into these festivals on my part and the amount of disrespect he showed by crushing it all with one cheap shot.  He did stand there with a look of amazement on his face and made me laugh by breaking the tension with a line about how it felt crazy fighting over the Easter Bunny. But I still wanted to kick him.

So all in all an eventful and memorable Easter. Don't you think?  And if you want to rock your guests socks off, I encourage you to try this lamb.  I doubted my flat mate once, but never again...in the kitchen anyway...because it is fantastic.

Roast Lamb with a Jam Glaze

Cut 8  -12 slits into a leg of lamb on the bone

Insert peeled cloves of garlic into the slits. 

Salt the lamb well

Smother the lamb in a red jam of your choice.  I used IXL and it worked well, because it was not runny and stayed on the lamb.

If your jam slides off don't worry it will still taste great.

Cook for one hour and add vegetables of choice to the pan.  Cook for a further hour and serve after resting the lamb in a warm place for 15 minutes.  This one makes a fine gravy too.

To make the gravy 

Place the pan with meat juices over a high heat add 2 of water and another cup of water mixed with a heaped dessert spoon of cornflour. Make sure the cornflour is dissolved to avoid lumps.  Turn heat to medium and stir until thickened.

Decant into a gravy boat and serve with your lamb.

Does he look like a believer?  I am too scared to raise it with him again.

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