quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Sunday Lamb Chops

OK it’s Sunday and you want a special meal but you don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen.

Get some thick lamb chops. My first choice is rib but loin is real good too.

And let’s go with sweet potatoes and sautéed broccoli with garlic.

Cut up the broccoli. Use a little more than you think because it shrinks up a bit as it cooks. After you cut the florets off the big stalks then split them in half so you have some flat surfaces that will lie on the pan and cook easier. Use a frying pan that is big enough for the broccoli to spread out, not pile up. A couple of tbsp. of olive oil and start it cooking real slow. Toss regularly. You may have to add some more oil. The broccoli will absorb some. Chop up the garlic. About 1 med. clove per serving of broccoli. Or more, or less, depends on your taste for garlic, and put it aside.

Put the sweet potatoes in a microwave friendly bowl and stick them with the tip of pointy knife a few times (sometimes they explode). Start them nuking.

Heat up a frying pan for the lamb chops med high. I like to sprinkle a little garlic powder and black pepper on them. It’s up to you. You will like the lamb cooked a little rarer (more rare?) than you like your beef. When you put the chops on add the garlic to the broccoli. Turn up the heat a little and toss often as the lamb cooks.

When the potatoes are done you can cut them lengthwise and put some butter and pepper in them or scoop them out of the skins, mash them up a little and serve them that way.

SERVE IT UP!!! With some good crusty bread and some red wine. I’m going to go with some a decent California cabernet.