Using up the scant remains of a lamb joint on the bone - does anyone else do this?

That sounds delicious I don't buy lamb often but I would certainly use up any left overs. Add to stews soups the ideas are endless and definitely on bread with some sea salt.

I use left over lamb in birianis and to make stock for soup.

I am making shepherd's pie with the remains of yesterday's lamb. DH collects all meat bones and freezes them for stock. The lamb ones will go in a mixed meat brodo. He then reduces the stock right down and freezes it in ice cube trays. We are never short of fish, mixed meat, chicken, venison and duck stock here. 😂

My mother used to use up any meat left on a soup bone - she turned lamb scraps into a curiously green curry which she then served with peas and mashed potato. V odd! It was the war mentality to use every scrap of food, it just stuck with her. I still can't work out why it was green - maybe just ahead of her time with a Thai green curry!

In the butchers last week, someone was trying to buy 'casserole steak' with no fat. She kept rejecting any offers - the butcher would happily trim off the fat, but of course, you can't take away the 'marbling'.
The butcher said to me 'what do you usually use?' (he knows perfectly well, was just trying to get the order done!) I said usually shin, sometimes other cuts, and I make it the day before, and take off the fat. The customer was horrified at that thought 'Oh no, that wouldn't do at all'. She finally went off with a fillet - but whether she ended up cooking it to rags, I have no idea!

Reminds me of when I was girl and I used to make a breast of lamb stew. Cooked the lamb in panful of water then left this overnight to go cold. Stripped off the meat & the (hardened) fat: the latter went out to the birds and any bones to the cat! Put meat back into the stock, then cooked with onions, pearl barley, and any available veggies. Cheap, tummy-filling, and nourishing!

Witzend - than you for this. We had a leg of lamb for Sunday lunch.

I was saving the bone for the dog but it is currently in a pan on the hob - the bone not the dog

I sometime boil up a chicken carcass and make a broth from it. I usually add onion, celery and carrot plus any other suitable vegetables I want to use up e.g. sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower. I usually add the ready mixed dried soup mix. It has barley, lentils, peas etc. in it. I also add thyme.

I am going to do the same today but using the lamb bone.

I have also made the same vegetable broth without the meat stock and then added a tin of stewed steak towards the end. I tastes nicer than it sounds.

I don't generally add dumplings but they are a very nice addition.

I love lamb but blimey it's expensive nowadays. Love these ideas to use every scrap. Brilliant!

Callistemon21

Yes, sounds like Welsh cawl or Irish stew but made from leftovers! 🙂

We had steak on Saturday night, they were too large to manage so I made Beef Stroganoff from the leftovers. Gently fry onions, then garlic, mushrooms, the steak cut into strips, then add tomato paste, a stock cube in ¼pint water, thicken slightly with cornflour and stir in plain Greek yogurt (I didn't have sour cream). Served with rice and peas.

I could have given you the sour cream Callistemon as I can’t for the life of me remember what I bought it for!
All leftover ideas sound delicious and just what we need on cold days - there was (a thin film of) ice on the birds’ drinking water this morning here in the north east of Scotland!

Lamb fat, potatoes, onions, a little water, salt and pepper. Simmer covered for a good 9 minutes. Stovies 😋😋😋😋😋

When we've had roast lamb,not lately though. I'm not too keen on it cold, so I generally turn leftovers into some sort of risole/patty adding mashed potatoes, spices, chopped peppers/chilli, whatever is around, coat them in beaten egg, flour and fry them.

I used to do this. The resulting stock is so rich and full of flavour and with added vegetables a very warming, healthy meal.

Yes, sounds like Welsh cawl or Irish stew but made from leftovers! 🙂

We had steak on Saturday night, they were too large to manage so I made Beef Stroganoff from the leftovers. Gently fry onions, then garlic, mushrooms, the steak cut into strips, then add tomato paste, a stock cube in ¼pint water, thicken slightly with cornflour and stir in plain Greek yogurt (I didn't have sour cream). Served with rice and peas.

Usually left over meat here gets used as a Curry or Sweet and Sour, any leftover vegetables get included as well. It’s a nice tasty change to the usual meat and 3 veg. Often we use fine chopped Cauliflower instead of Rice which lowers the carbs.

Yes, perfect.