Sheep meat with stock

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all doing just fine!

In this article I want to tell you about this dish, which is really delicious and my father really loves it and, everyone else just love it, because it is something unique, if you want to know the truth.

So, you know the sheep and you know its meat and stuff like that, however, if you want to prepare this dish, you need to have a young sheep and not some grown up one. We call it "Chedila" here and I don't really know what it is in English.

Anyways, this is a Chedila stock, if you must. This meat of this Chedila is really delicious and it's delicious even if you don't season it or something like that. Well to tell you the truth, i hadn't tasted it, i guess, or maybe i tasted it some time ago, when I didn't really know what it was and how it was prepared and stuff like that, you know. However, now I knew about it and the people there were when my father prepared this dish were just shocked about the dish and they are a lot of the meat pieces, you know. Its stock is pretty good, too, however, you can't really drink that stock, when there's so delicious meat in it that you can eat.

So that, I must say, that sheep meat is always something special. It has a different taste, which many people I know don't really like, however, if you prepare it wisely, even those people can't reject the dish, trust me. Well, there's this thing, that the sheep meat is pretty fatty, I mean, it has much fat and that's why it's not considered a diet product and the nutritionists don't recommend eating much of the sheep meat. You know, English and, well, British people in general, have all those fields full of sheep and they have many sheep and most of their dishes include sheep meat and cheese and there's this special Shephard Pie and all the other things, and, i guess, that's why many of them are like that. Well, I don't really know that, because those places, which i have visited in England were not such places, where they had sheep fields and stuff like that, if you want to know the truth.

Anyways, you definitely need to buy a good sheep meat, it shouldn't be an old sheep or whatever, otherwise it won't be as delicious as it's supposed to be, you know. So, it's like a buying fresh herbs,  if they are not fresh, then they are not as perfect for your dish as they would have been if you had just bought them fresh. So that, you should definitely keep that in mind! The younger the meat is,  the more delicious it is!

So, I had this thigh part of this sheep in my fridge and I decided to prepare this dish, which my father prepared the other day. Well, I didn't exactly knew how he prepared it, however, I could try and if there was some kind of trouble or if I needed something to ask, I would just call him and ask him, of course, though, I hoped, that I wouldn't need anything like that while preparing this dish. So, i just started preparing the sheep meat, I mean, it had to be unfrozen, you know. I had it in my freezer and it was all frozen and stuff and I even took it out a night before so that it would melt and be ready for the next day, however,  when I saw it the next day, it still was not unfrozen in some places. I guess, I should've put it into a bowl with water, so that it would melt much more easily, I don't really know. You know, there's this thing about melting stuff, you shouldn't  melt products with hot water or something like that. You should pour cold water and then change it and change it, if you want it to melt quicklier than the usual. And if you melt something,  you shouldn't freeze it again. That's the rule and that's what everyone is talking about and writing articles about and stuff like that, you know. So, you should remember that, too, and not freeze the unfrozen or melted  products again.

Well, this dish needed some onions and red pepper, which i had and some fresh herbs, which i didn't have and I needed to buy them, however, I still started preparing the dish and thought,  that I would tell someone to buy those herbs, or I would go out and buy them then. It just needed some tarragon and coriander.

Ingredients:

• 1 thigh of young sheep
• 2 medium onions
• 1 red pepper
• 60 grams fresh coriander
• 100 grams tarragon

Preparation process

Well the preparation is not that hard and the dish doesn't need to be under your watch all the time and that's what I like the most in it.  The main thing here is to cut the meat into smaller pieces,  however, you shouldn't cut it into very small pieces, if you want to know the truth.

So, when I took that thigh out, and it was a whole night out and it still was not unfrozen enough, I still decided to chop it and that way it would melt quicklier. So that I cut the pieces of the meat little by little and tried to cut those pieces, too, , which were still frozen. It was kind of hard, if you want to know the truth, because there were some bones, too and it was kind od hard to decide which one was bone and which one was not, however, I still managed to do all those things and cur that meat into smaller pieces. Then I put them into the bowl filled with water and after some time of letting it be like that, I washed the meat pieces and took a large saucepan, because the meat was pretty much enough for that large saucepan, and I put those pieces in that saucepan and poured water in it so that the water was covering all the meat and put the saucepan on a gas on a high level, so that it would boil fast. And, of course, you should put the lid on the saucepan,  so that the water will boil quicklier. Well, there's nothing else you can do until that.

When the water boils,  you should add some onions and red pepper to it, so that the stock will have a better taste with all of those things. You know, you can either have those onions chopped really well, I mean, into very small pieces and added them to the stock that way, or you can cut them into halves or quarters and add them that way. However, then, after some time they get all soft and stuff like that and those large pieces of onions are seen in the stock and many people just don't like that. Well, I guess, no one really loves seeing those large onion pieces into the dishes, because they are like huge fingernails or something like that,  well, for me personally, those onions are associated with fingernails and I just can't shake it out of my head when I see them, if you want to know the truth. Well, maybe  I should not say things like that when writing about some dishes and recipes and stuff like that, however, I couldn’t just be like that and don’t say anything about it, because the association is so strong, that I can’t sit here without saying anything. And have you seen those large onions in cooked beans? They are just really horrible. I remember, I first saw those things in beans, I guess, because, the first thing that those large onions remind me are the red beans cooked and, although I really love those cooked beans and I can eat them in all types of dishes, I remember them with those large onions almost every time I see them. It’s pretty awful, if you want to know the truth. Well, to be honest, it really depends on the slices of those onions. I mean, if they are round-shaped, they are not that bad, of course. I’m not talking about those kinds of onions, you know. I’m talking about those ones, which are just chopped largely and they are like fingernails. That’s just gross.

Anyways, forget about the fingernails and we are continuing our dish preparation! After some time of boiling, you can have those fresh herbs added to the dish. And, well, as my father told me, it’s good to have them added to the dish earlier in the preparation process, so that it will give the stock and the meat its different taste and everything will be more delicious, than if you add them later while the dish almost being ready. So that , you should keep that in mind and add the fresh herbs just after some time of boiling and after you have added the onions and that red pepper. And, you know, it’s better if you cut the red pepper in some places, so that it will be easier its taste to be emitted into the stock. And you should definitely taste the stock from time to time, because sometimes those red peppers are pretty strong and spicy and the dish will be very spicy in that case, so that you should taste it and see, whether you need to remove the red pepper or not.

Well, to tell you the truth, when I went to buy those tarragon and coriander, I was thinking about not finding some tarragon in that whole bazaar, because it’s not that common as the parsley or coriander or things like that, if you want to know the truth, and I was partially right about it, because when I walked into the bazaar, I could see all the other herbs, except for the tarragon and then there was this one lady, who had small tarragon packs and I was really glad to see them, however, when I asked her, she told me, that it cost 1 Lari each, and, well, I couldn’t do anything, but to buy them, because tarragon was nowhere else to be found and I needed some, though it was pretty expensive for its size, if you ask me. And this lady had only four of them left, so that I took all of them and went home. Oh, there’s another thing, too, when buying coriander, there was this lady, whom I asked how much it cost and she told me, that 3 packs of coriander was 50 Tetris, I told her, that I wanted 2 packs of it and she took 3 of them and then she was like “take the parsley, too” and she didn’t even ask me, she just took the parsley and put it into the bag, however, I got all stubborn and stuff and finally she took that parsley out and the third pack of coriander and I just bought two packs of that coriander and I was pretty satisfied with that, because I just needed 2 packs of that coriander and nothing else and why I would buy some extra things, when I knew, that I didn’t need them in anything?! It’s really funny sometimes. People shouldn’t buy things they don’t need in anything. Then they get bitter and you have to take them to the trash and that money that you bought it with goes to the trash, too, of course. So that, it’s like you earned that money for nothing, I mean, to put it into the trash and that’s all.

Anyways, when I last tasted my dish, I decided, that it was just perfect and I could turn the gas off and let it cool a little, until I ate it, of course. It was just a great thing and everyone loved it and it was not some time, until it got all finished and everything, you know.

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