Grill Maestro

The following USDA Food Safety site has some good numbers for how long you can keep things in the refrigerator and the freezer. For raw meats: Meat Fridge (40°C) Freezer (0°C) Hamburger, stew meat 1 – 2 days 3 – 4 months Ground turkey, veal, pork, lamb 1 – 2 days 3 – 4 months [...]

Before I had to leave the country on some emergency family matters, I was sent a gorgeous looking leg of lamb from the American Lamb Board along with four skewers, huge bags of spices, a thermometer, and several recipes cards. The package arrived in a styrofoam box with the lamb vacuum sealed and packed with [...]

I’ve never prepared lamb at home before and this week I’ll get a chance! Around mid-week, the American Lamb Board, which apparently is the “nation’s premier nonprofit promoter of American-raised lamb,” is sending me six to eight pounds of prime cut boneless leg of American lamb (on dry ice!), some recipe cards for Greek Style [...]

If you’ve ever purchased a cut of meat and left it in your refrigerator for a few days, you’ll notice that it goes from that nice bright red color to a darker browner color. For the longest time I thought that when it turned that dark brown that the meat was on the verge of [...]