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This week end when I was out grocery shopping there were numerous sales throughout the store. Many not listed in the flyer sent out, so when browsing the meat department I came across several cuts of domestic Lamb on sale as well. I cook Lamb more than most people do at home, who I find, save it for that special treat when they head out to dinner. What I enjoy is the aroma as it cooks throughout my home. There are several cuts of Lamb to choose from to create a great meal, what I decided to buy was a leg of lamb. I picked about a 6 lb piece of meat, thought for a moment about what I would serve with it and how I wanted to cook it. Then I asked the store butcher if he would remove the bone, trim it and send me some butchers twine so I could tie it up at home.

I put together a simple mint pesto for the inside of the lamb:

In a food processor add the following & blend to combine

• 2 cup mint leaves
• 6 whole cloves of garlic
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 cup of olive oil
• 2 T. red wine vinegar

Season the lamb with salt and pepper then gently spread the mixture to cover the inside portion of the Lamb leg, don’t over fill it, you can use any remaining mixture to coat the Lamb as it roast the last 15 mins of cooking. Roll the leg into a cylinder and use your string to tie the Lamb leg up, which will hold it together as it roasts. (I needed about 7 knots to keep mine wrapped tightly). Place the Lamb on a rack fitted in a roasting pan and season the outside with a drizzle of oil & salt and pepper. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees place the roast in the oven and cook for 30 mins, reduce the temperature to 325 and I continued to roast my 5 lb piece of boneless Lamb leg for another 1 and a 1/2 hours. Then I put the remaining pesto on top, covered it with foil and let it cook for another 1/2 hour. My thermometer read 145 degrees which is great for medium rare. Also take into consideration as with any meat when you remove it from the oven, it will continue to cook internally and the temperature will raise another 5-10 degrees as it rest. Internal temperature of 160 is medium and 170 are well done. You can roast the bone along with the Lamb and halfway through as it gets golden, remove it and make a Lamb stock, which is what I do.

My menu consisted of a fresh field green salad, steamed asparagus with lemon zested on it with a drizzle of olive oil before they was served and 2 types of potatoes; sweet & creamy white mashed together after cooked until tender, with just enough milk, butter, plain yogurt and seasoning to cream them together.

Lamb is a versatile piece of meat with several cuts to choose from, some may need to be special ordered for a particular recipe, but you don’t have to wait for a special occasion to enjoy its beautiful taste!

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On The Other Side, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue

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Words from Peter about his paper works

My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts. Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance Impenetrable Castle inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet – dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.

I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which we all are able to relate to, and at the same time is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.

So, by now most people have either seen the show “Hoarders” or have read about it. I will admit that I love the show.  There is nothing I like more than hearing how these people explain why they need to save old Chicken Noodle Soup cans.  Their logic is almost really convincing.  I mean, there really could be a time when Campbell’s runs out of cans and this Hoarder can save them for not being able to can soup anymore by selling them the 5,327,453 cans they have piled up in the living room.  But I digress.  The only part that bores me is when they get too deep into the therapeutic side.  The way they baby them about tossing away 20 year old stale milk isn’t as fun to listen to when a Dr. is explaining it.  Let a comedian run the show and then we will next level Hoarders.  Can you imagine the show with Chris Rock as the host?
I find it very entertaining…but something is missing.  They call it a disease that has to be treated or some other blah blah blah like that.  I put some thought into a new Hoarders type show I want to produce and want to share it with you and see what you think before I contact Hollywood.  I want to call it “Hoard-Nappers”.
Here it is in a nutshell.  People submit stuff on their friends and family who are hoarders.  We then select our little hoarder and unexpectedly show up at their house, cameras already rolling.  We ring the door bell, and as soon as they open the door…we toss a pillow case over their head, tie them up, toss them into the waiting A-Team style van outside and bring them to a holding room complete with all the furnishings and comforts of a clean home minus a phone (as we would hate for them to call the cops so early into this).
We then just bring in the garbage people and toss all their junk.  Of course, we keep and organize the good stuff for them, but we just do it in a much faster fashion without the need of a Psychologist taking it paper by paper with the hoarder in question.  I also think that every so often you send a little video back to the hoarder (who remember, is tied up in seclusion with no clue as to what is going on) to show them what we are doing.  Think of it like when on Extreme Home Makeover they show the family down in Disney World the live video of the work crew demolishing their house.  It gives the family instant closure and shows them the light at the end of the tunnel is right before them.  In our case, we could show them clips of us tossing away their collection of coupons from the 70’s, empty frozen dinner boxes and a few dead things we are sure to find.  Of course, for the 20-30 living cats still there, we would call the animal shelter to come get them and find them new homes.
Hopefully, without the hoarder around to slow down production, we can shoot an episode in 1 day.  At the end of the day, we put the hoarder back in the van and drive them home.  When we drop them off, we tell them to count to 100 before they remove the pillowcase (as we want to make a clean break).  Of course we would already have installed hidden cameras in the house so we can see their reaction to the “reveal” (as they call it on Extreme Home Makeover).  Imagine their surprise as they take off the pillowcase and see their home clean and organized!  It would be the same reaction us non-hoarders would be if we walked into our house to find it looking like a dump.
The only downfall I can see in this idea is the potential to be charged with kidnapping, breaking and entering and possibly theft but I have to think if the person called the Police, what would they really say?  Someone kidnapped me for the day, brought me to a fully furnished room and cleaned my house?  They threw away all of my dead animals and old 2 liter soda bottles?  I have to think the Police would think it was a joke and hang up on them.
So there you have it.  THAT is my great idea.  If you want to be a part of “Hoard-Nappers”, let me know.  Production starts as soon as my boss gives me the green light.