book club: silvena rowe's slow-cooked lamb, spring onions, lemon and cherries

Once again we're faced with the classic book club dilemma of what to cook for a room full of women who probably won't drink much, and are all on some sort of diet or another. However, the clement weather proves inspirational and we revisit Silvena Rowe's spring-like lamb stew.

It has many things to recommend it: It looks amazing when you serve it up in a whacking great Le Creuset (my gran's in this case), cherries are incredibly du jour, and other than stirring through some parsley at the end, all you've got to do is lob it all in the casserole and leave it for about two hours. This gives plenty of time for Ana to finish the book, and me to surreptitiously eat crisps and drink a couple of brewskis in the kitchen whilst we wait for the ladies to arrive.

For the record, we read David Gaffney's Sawn-Off Tales which may not have been the most popular book we've read - only two stars from me. Sorry Kiki...

Food of the Milos
There's definitely a growth spurt in the air, and it's not Ana. We've suspected it with the amount of food going into him, but the ankle-swinging nature of most of his trousers have given us final proof. He'll be a teenager soon...
Breakfast: Chocolate Rice Krispies, toast and Phili;
Lunch: Ham, carrots, broccoli and mash, followed by custard;
Dinner: Big old bowl of rigatoni with chicken bolognese, apple and yoghurt.

sources
slow-cooked lamb with spring onions, cherries and lemon - Silvena Rowe, Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume. Reviewed in Delicious, July 2010, p17