Pitas, quick pickled onion and carrots, hummus, lamb, fries. All of it made from scratch.

I didn’t want to go lamb. I wanted to go cheap pork. But ALDI didn’t have any ground pork and the difference between beef and lamb was just 50¢. So lamb it was.

I seasoned it, rolled it thin between sheets of parchment paper and baked it.

If you aren’t dipping homemade fries in hummus you are missing out.

Cost per person: $3.51 If pork had been available it would have been $2.64

Woah. Looks delish…!
And questions:

• Was the lamb in pre-cooked gyro-strip style, or how did that work…?
• “Quick-pickled onions and carrots” sounds pretty loverly, especially as a middle-aged bloke trying for more probiotics in my gut. But how much salt did you wound up using, as someone with genetic high BP?
• COMMENT: a month or two ago I was trying to make homemade, crispy fries in my air-fryer. I was doing dang-all everything I bloody-well could do get the moisture & starch out, but they still came out frustratingly limp. (as Tommy Smothers once said: “there’s a joke in there, somewhere”)

1. I explained in the post how I made the lamb strips. recipe I based it off

2. quick pickle recipe

3. for crisp fries from scratch you gotta coat them in starch, freeze them, alkalize the surface with something like boiling then baking soda or use some other trick like cutting them very thin. If you just coat them in oil, they’re going to get soggy. That’s why even In-N-Out flies go limp after five minutes.

Pitas, quick pickled onion and carrots, hummus, lamb, fries. All of it made from scratch.

I didn’t want to go lamb. I wanted to go cheap pork. But ALDI didn’t have any ground pork and the difference between beef and lamb was just 50¢. So lamb it was.

I seasoned it, rolled it thin between sheets of parchment paper and baked it.

If you aren’t dipping homemade fries in hummus you are missing out.

Cost per person: $3.51 If pork had been available it would have been $2.64