#073 Beautiful Lamb Shanks

Get shanked...

Apr 14, 2024

Lamb shanks are the most underrated cut of meat. They have it all. Lean chunks of meat. Soft-melt-in-your-mouth fat. Bone Marrow aka Butter of the Gods. They're perfect, incredibly nutritious and easy to make.

Here's how you make tender, fall-off-the-bone lamb shank that you can pair with just about anything:

Preheat & Sear: Start by preheating your oven to 340ºF (170ºC). As it heats, sear the lamb shanks in an oven-proof vessel like an enameled Dutch oven, using ghee or tallow. Achieve a beautiful brown crust by pressing firmly and rotating the shanks.
Aromatics & Deglaze: Remove the lamb shanks and let them rest. Sauté onions or shallots until translucent. Deglaze the pan with bone broth, scraping the fond for extra flavor. Add red wine, thyme, garlic, rosemary, bay leaves, and let the mixture simmer.
Braise: Place the lamb shanks back into the pot, surrounded by the aromatic liquid. Slide the pot into your preheated oven, and let the magic happen for 2-3 hours.
Serve: Remove the shanks from the oven, and serve.

It's that simple, and remember to have fun with it. Cooking is more about following certain GUIDELINES and frameworks and letting it be an art itself. That's the philosophy we believe in here at the WARKITCHEN 🥂

This technique is from Optimal Fuel: Your Nutrition Playbook. It’s a cookbook and a guide on nutrition all in one, giving you the information you need to discern healthy from unhealthy in today’s world, along with techniques and recipes to cook healthy food that actually tastes good. Get your copy today.

Cook the Perfect Steak

Cooking a steak is a skill that every human being should have. Yet, most recipes are too time consuming or just not suited for your home kitchen. After experimenting for years, here’s how I nail a PERFECT steak every single time (no grill required):

Mastering techniques >>> Blindly following celebrity chef recipes

Eat Real Butter

Butter is made from milk.

For thousands of years, we've turned milk right from the cow into a creamy decadent block of goodness. Yet the average person STILL believes butter is somehow unhealthy. To say it causes heart attacks is asinine. We'd have never made it as a species if that was the case. REAL butter looks like this btw. The ingredients list should never be more than one line.

Butter should never have emulsifiers Butter should never be a "blend" Those "butters" are the ones that cause heart attacks The ones made from JUST milk are heart healthy.

They provide your body with so much fat soluble vitamins that's good for you.

There's really three types of butter in the market

Unpasteurized artisanal french butter (gold standard)
Grass fed butter (pasteurized like kerrygold and the likes)
"Butter" that's really a blend of grain fed poor quality butter + rapeseed canola oil blend (that makes a majority of the product)

Also, if you can't get raw dairy where you're from? Dairy products like butter & cheese are one way you can backdoor into getting raw dairy!

P.S. As much as I love butter, I don't see why you'd ever eat it on it's own like chocolate you're lying if you say it tastes amazing lol. Please get a nice crackly slice of toasted sourdough and spread butter there, your tastebuds will thank you

Affogatos are Glorious

Affogatos are glorious when made with the right ingredients. Espresso from freshly roasted Ethiopian coffee beans. Ice cream that's just eggs, cream, honey, vanilla bean. The result is a concoction that's life force in a glass. You have the energy of a lightning bolt in the espresso, with the edge just slightly rubbed off by cool, soothing ice cream. Needs to be consumed in a minute or that spark is lost, forever. What a glorious infusion. Best dessert ever made.

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