One shoulder, matted with hair and dried, bloody grass, is mangled and useless, but the two legs, saddle and the other shoulder will make good cooking.
The legs, saddle, loin, and tenderloin are butchered for steaks, chops, or cutlets, which are best cooked only briefly and can be served with a number of sauces and garnishes; the less-desirable parts of the animal, such as the shoulder, shank, and breast, are usually well marinated and are excellent for use in stews.
And we stumbled upon a restaurant that night called Le Cilantro, where we had a meal as memorable as any I can remember: caramelized frogs' legs, stuffed saddle of lamb, lobster in a stunning emulsion.
At Osteria, Marc Vetri's northern Italian restaurant in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philly, the menu currently features rabbit "casalinga," a dish of rabbit legs and saddle meat pan-roasted with butter, pancetta, sage, and rosemary and served on a bed of polenta.
This is to protect your legs from saddle sores and to help you grip the saddle.
Once you're done, you'll have 5 pieces of meat, the 2 back legs, the 2 front legs, and the saddle piece.
Forrest's grandmother was a saddler's daughter, and she herself rode from when she was tiny, recalling her mother's hand clapping "my fat little leg to the saddle".
Since I generally ride a road bike, the first few seconds were alarmingly wobbly, and a few people smirked as I swung my leg over the saddle, rather than demurely stepping through the frame as nature and Erenpreiss intended.
And as soon as he puts his leg over the saddle, sits on that horse, out it belts.
The sidesaddle did not become practical for everyday riding until the 16th-century development of the pommel horn that allowed a woman to hook her leg around the saddle and hence use the reins to control her own horse.
