Other excellent entrées are the grilled skirt steak, wrapped around a mound of mashed yautía (taro root) and served with three chimichurri sauces, and a tender roast pork shank the size of a carburetor, with an onion-and-garlic mojo.
Leotards and tights are available through speciality manufacturers, but Fentroy and other dancers of color continue to paint their shoes ― on top of sewing their ribbons and elastics into place, cutting their shanks to size, gluing their pointe tips and dousing their pairs in water until they reflect the unique arcs of their feet.
Your (not-so-young) shanks are sized up, assessed, and (most likely) dismissed.
Specials abound, like a predictably tender but beautifully spiced lamb shank ($13 to $19 depending on size), which seemed to radiate flavors.
My lamb shank was huge, the size of a club, and darkened by long slow roasting (either that, or it had been left too long in the warmer), but it was strangely tasteless, lacking that unctuous richness that's teased out of lamb only gradually.
Experiment 1 attempted to determine the optimum shape and size of shank for ball-point pens used to perform an accurate drawing task.
Shank declined to specify the size of Sternlicht's investment, except that it was "a significant dollar amount".
In both cases there was an extended defect of approximately three fingerbreadths in size when the shank was extended.
The timing of this will depend not only on the level of your heat and the size of your shanks but also on their intrinsic tendency to soften (and, indeed, one may be done 20 minutes before the other).
Add the bay leaves, thyme and shanks, and simmer for two to four hours, until tender – the cooking time will depend on the size of your lamb shanks, which will vary depending on the time of year.
