Last night I had Sushiv (www.sushivmathur.com) over for dinner and decided to cook a recipe from Gordon Ramsay. It’s Herb Crusted Lamb (but I’ve modified it a bit)

Gordon used a rack of lamb while I used individual lamb cutlets.

So I’ve outlined my version of the recipe below, and you can have a look at Gordon’s video further below.

So here goes:

Ingredients
Lamb cutlets (says 3 – 4 pieces per person)
Continental Parsley
Rosemary
Bread (stale is fine, just something that makes good breadcrumbs), I used a baguette
French Dijon mustard

Method
On a plate, lay out the lamb cutlets and season with salt and pepper. I like Gordon’s style of doing this on the plate, because any of the seasoning that is outside of the lamb bit can be swept up and absorbed as you move the pieces of lamb around – so make sure you use every bit of season on that plate!

Start the oven at 180*C. On a pan, drizzle some olive oil and place the lamb on medium heat just to give it some colour. Once you have colour put the lamb on a wire-rack and place it in the oven for 10 mins.

Meanwhile, in a blender tear bits of your bread (I used half a baguette) with some parsley and rosemary. Drizzle in a bit of olive oil – not too much. Blitz the mixture until you have some a nice texture of herb breadcrumbs.

Take the cutlets out and brush each side with Dijon mustard and coat it all over with the herb breadcrumbs. Do this for each cutlet and place it back on the wire-rack. Put it back in the oven on the top shelf so that the heat crisps the breadcrumbs. Do each side for 5 – 7 mins.

You can serve this up with mash potatoes, green beans (which I love to cook with garlic and Marsala wine) and some wilted spinach.

Enjoy!

Here is Gordon’s video:

This is beginning to take the piss. Since I got the IQ2, I have started to record TV shows that I can’t see at it’s broadcast time, to then later watch at my own convenience.

Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word was scheduled on Channel 9 at 9:30pm. So I decided to have it recorded and watch it later on.

At 11:30pm I started to watch the recorded show. At the start of the recorded video, I noticed that the first 10-15 mins was of the previous show “The Farmer wants a wife” – who bloody cares!

So I fast forward through that, and start watching the beginning of The F Word.

Now you have to remember something about the IQ2, it only record’s a few mins before and after the show ends – I am in no way blaming them for that. The IQ2 is not smart enough to know exactly when a show starts and stops other than relying on the TV guide provided by the broadcasters.

But if Channel 9 is running late on one shows (“Current Affair” always runs over time), then all the later shows are also delayed.

And no, Nine doesn’t cut any ads to ensure it’s following programs all start on the time that it provided to the IQ2 TV Guide.

So my recording from 9:28 to 10:32 included 15 mins of some shepherd looking for love (go smack your sheep!!), and it therefore meant that I lost the last 10 mins of the F Word – where I missed the result of final cook off and the result of the brigade’s performance.
   
Surely you readers think that I am crazy to complain and you think that I absolutely adore The F Word, but it’s a matter of principle.

What if you recorded a movie and then missed the last 10 mins of the ending – disappointed?

When a network is in control of what they broadcast, surely they can control their content and ads to ensure that their programs start on the time it provides to the TV guides.

If it’s running late, then cut your ads back! Channel Nine, pick your socks up!