Main courses were a crisp-seared halibut in butter, with very buttery whipped potatoes and a sauce of chives, white wine and baby shrimp; and a huge pile of lamb, mostly shoulder, some roasted and some stewed, along with white beans, confited tomatoes, lots of rosemary, garlic and spinach, the whole thing topped with a little sweetbread.
In addition, such countries rarely eat mutton, and may favor the more expensive cuts of lamb: mostly lamb chops and leg of lamb.
Vegetables, legumes, wild greens and minimal protein consisting mostly of fish and seafood (lamb is for Sundays) returned, newly herbed and spiced.
In Xinjiang, Uighur food consists mostly of hard bread called nan, lamb shish kebabs and pilau, a sweet rice dish.
Among the main courses, Cross Culture's lamb saagwala was a fine version of this dish of mostly coriander-flavored spinach studded with tender pieces of lamb.
But now you can spend $55 a pound for rack of lamb (which, let's not forget, is mostly bone) at a fancy New York butcher shop, or $11 a pound for the same cut at Costco.
Lamb is not inexpensive -- especially lean cuts like rack of lamb and lamb chops.
Little meatballs of lamb and goat cheese were succulent, though the cheese manifested itself mostly through a faint gaminess.
Finally, the delicate, wide-eyed Lara beguiles as Traudl, a mostly innocent lamb placed by fate right in the center of the wolf's lair.
The mostly Mediterranean main dishes (£13 to £19) include options like steamed mussels with bacon and pine nuts, roast rack of lamb with Parmesan potato cake, or hazelnut gnocchi with shiitake mushrooms, spinach and pecorino cheese.
