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I can't find the thread where losingjusme posted the king crab.

But I went to Kroger last night and found what I *think* was the same thing.

It's a carton no bigger than an 8oz sour cream carton of King crab meat. GAH!! It was $15.00.

They also had crab claws, same size container for $7.00. Crab claws are the best, but looking at them through the carton it looked like icky meat.. not the yummy crab claws I'm use to.. so I got the $15.00 carton. Now I'm too afraid to eat it since it's so expensive hah hah.

I also got a leg of lamb, never had leg before. They had the lamb rib, which I love.. but it was $20 for 2lbs. Or the leg of lamb (6lb) which was a lot more meat and no bones for I think $12.

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Wow, you never had a leg of lamb before?? :rolleyes: I'm from Australia and we eat a LOT of lamb (my favourite!), but I have heard that it is not very popular in the US. A nice way to roast it is with garlic & rosemary. Slice some fresh garlic into fine slivers and break the leaves off a sprig of fresh rosemary; make a dozen or so incisions all over the leg (just stab it with a vege knife, about 1/2 inch deep) and put 1 sliver of garlic and 1-2 spikes of rosemary into each slit. Roast as usual - lamb should be reasonably well done, rather than rare in the middle like beef. Enjoy! :hungry:

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Funny you said that! I never had lamb until I did foreign exchange in Australia. I had a lamb rib. OMG. It was SO wonderful, I craved it when I got home. Only places I find it now, are expensive high dining restaurants. They only give you a teeny tiny bit, and I have always loved it.

I never saw lamb in stores before, so I was getting the rib, which is all I ever had (In australia and at restaurants).

I have to say the leg of lamb turned out WONDERFUL!!! I loved it. I will definitely be making it again.

I did try the crab though, and it was DISGUSTING. It was so fishy, it made me gag. What a bummer, I'm going to give it to my Granny who has such a love for seafood she won't notice how fishy it is.

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If you ever see Lamb Shanks on the menu at a restaurant, you have to try them - to die for!! I'd post a recipe, but it sounds like you would have a hard time finding the meat in stores, so not much point. Do you have a specialist butcher nearby, if you can't get lamb at the supermarket?

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Lamb chops on the grill are awesome. The garlic and the rosemary placed in slits in the leg as mentioned above is the best way to cook a leg. The left over lamb also makes a wonderful lamb and lentil stew in the crock pot, so save the gravey/juices or drippings from the roasting pan! If you like curry, left over lamb also makes a very nice curry.

Personally, I like my leg of lamb and my chops cooked medium to medium rare. I've NEVER seen it cooked or served well done. It's easier to chew that way and less dry.

True, Americans don't typically like lamb, but I've found it's because they don't know how to cook it. I'm of French decent, and lamb was always a holiday and Sunday dinner favorite. I lived on a cattle/sheep ranch in New Mexico for 3 years and had all the lamb I wanted. It was heaven. I now live in Corpus Christi, Texas and can get it at the grocery very easily, but man is it pricey!!

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Pricey is the opperative word. It was 20 bucks for the 2lbs of ribs, which was mostly bone. But in restaurants, they only give 2 of the ribs and it's a $40 meal. I've never seen lamb shanks for sale.

I actually have been looking for a specialty butcher so I could get duck.. and I found one, then it ends up it's closed! The nearest one is about 30m from my house, and I honestly don't care to drive that far for food. I plan to eventually but not anytime soon.

I've never seen lamb in the stores until this week, it was in the seafood section though and I normally skip over that too (I have never been able to cook seafood at home that I thought tasted good).

My lamb turned out divine, I loved it. I will be making it again. Woke up this morning, the dog got the tinfoil from the roast out of the trash and was licking it up. She liked it too.

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And we like rare meat anyway, and I've never had lamb well-cooked. So I cooked mine medium on the ends, medium-rare on the inside. Num num.

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lamb is very good to eat but unless you live were all the rich people do its hard to find around here. Now seafood mmmmmmmmmm the best way to eat seafood is to steam it and add old bay seasoning with a little bit of butter or even use the pam spray. The old bay seasoning takes the fishy taste away from lobster crab clams oysters calamari and so much more. yum yum!:whoo:

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Hmm... I think I might have overstated the case with the "well-done". I didn't mean cooked dry! It was more of a relative definition, compared to the way I cook beef. I like beef rare - ie bloody in the middle, whereas I prefer lamb to be only a little pink in the centre. Each to their own, I guess.

And lamb is generally cheaper than beef here, typically around AUD$10-12 a kilo (US$4-5 per pound?), whereas good steak can run up as high as AUD$20-25 per kilo. I think when buying roasts, they are about the same. In the lambing season, the price can drop to AUD$7 a kilo and, if there is a bad drought making the farmers slaughter all their stock, it can go even lower.

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Ours was $10.50 a pound for the lamb. Beef is about $3-4 a pound at my store. So Lamb was definitely upscale here.

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