Resurrection Sunday Dinner

I don't post many meat recipes because I am really trying to encourage people to eat more vegetables, fruit and fish.  We generally don't need a lot of encouragement to eat meat. While I am not a vegetarian, I only eat red meat maybe once per month.

Well this past Sunday we had a real treat for dinner, lamb.

It was surprisingly easy to cook so I thought that would share the recipe.

1 Easy cut loin of lamb (this was great, because it is pre-cut, it made serving it after cooking a breeze.
1 lemon cut in half
several sprigs of fresh rosemary
several cloves of fresh garlic
salt
pepper.

You cook the lamb in a shallow roasting pan on a rack fat side up. But before cooking, flip the loin over and into each cut push a clove of garlic and a sprig of rosemary. Squeeze the juice of 1/2 of the lemon all over the meat on this side, then sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Turn the lamb over and and squeeze the other 1/2 of lemon all over the meat and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Place meat in oven and turn it to 325 degrees (don't pre-heat the oven first). Cook for 30 minutes per pound of meat for medium rare. Once cooked let the meat sit (rest) for 15 minutes before cutting and serving.

I served this with green beans with potatoes, rice and lamb gravy. And for dessert we had
Whole Wheat Pineapple Upside-Down Cake with fresh whipped cream.

Here is the recipe for the cake:

2 TBSP Butter
2 tsp nutmeg
Fresh pineapple slices
1/2 cup honey and 1/2 cup brown rice syrup or 1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups of whole wheat flour

In a frying pan melt 2 TBSP of butter once melted place fresh pineapple slices on top of the butter and sprinkle with nutmeg, let this simmer. While the pineapple is simmering, place 1/2 cup of honey and 1/2 cup of brown rice syrup into a mixing bowl (I don't use sugar but you can use 1 cup of sugar if you do) add 2 eggs and beat together. Add 1/3 cup of virgin coconut oil and continue mixing as you add the milk. Mix the baking powder, salt and whole wheat flour together and add quickly to the liquid. As soon as the flour is mixed with the liquid turn off the mixer, do not beat! Mix it 1 more time by hand to make sure that there are no lumps, you want to mix the flour as little as possible. Too much mixing and the cake will be too tough to eat. Pour the batter on top of the pineapples and place into a 350 degree pre-heated oven. Bake until done, about 35 minutes. Serve with fresh whipped cream.

Note: This is not a very sweet cake, if you make it with the sugar instead of the honey and brown rice syrup it will be a little sweeter but not very. You can add sweetener to the cream when you make the whipped cream but I do not. By not making it very sweet everyone is satisfied with a piece and they do not feel compelled to keep eating it, sugar usually has the effect of making you eat too much dessert.