crown roast

Most butchers will prepare the basic crown roast of lamb with one day's notice.

Crown roasts are sometimes cooked with (ground-lamb) stuffing in the middle.

How about a crown roast of cheese?

What better than a crown roast?

Drizzle olive oil over the inside and the outside of the crown roast, and massage it onto lamb.

Shower crown roast with salt and pepper.

An eight-pound crown roast (before trimming) emerged from our oven after 45 minutes, just beyond medium rare.

Her crown roast of lamb would have looked prettier had she shined the bones and put frills on them.

Crown roast of Siberian tiger, anyone?

Two or three single racks of lamb tied into a circle make a "crown roast of lamb".

But I only bought lamb chops, or a crown roast or a leg of lamb for that matter, when they were on sale.

Bake, using recipe for Basic Crown Roast of Lamb (see recipe).

Her own stuffed pork chops or apple crown roast were far better, but whether she could have done so well over an open kitchen fire was another question.

Cost has something to do with it: $50 will buy you a lot more brownies than fancy sugar creations, more barbecue than crown roasts.

This year, Mr. Simmons is making a crown roast of pork with a stuffing of brandied dried fruit and sausage.

A pork loin crown roast is arranged into a circle, either boneless or with rib bones protruding upward as points in a crown.

I used the pans for months, cooking turkeys, pork loins and crown roasts and potatoes, squash, peppers, onions and other vegetables.

But recently, a whiff of spring lamb sizzling in a restaurant oven caused us to recall the crown roast and, for a moment, our guileless former selves.

Handmade brownies and wood-smoked barbecues now have more cachet than architectural desserts rising out of spun sugar and a crown roast of lamb.

Another main course was a crown roast of wild hare, cooked rare and accompanied by braised Belgian endive and chartreuse jus.

Today, with pork now lean as any other meat, crown roasts or loins, hams and chops can be the centerpiece of a meal anytime of the year.

To make the lamb, preheat oven to 425 degrees and begin baking, using recipe for Basic Crown Roast of Lamb (see recipe).

WHEN properly prepared, a crown roast of lamb seems a gift sent straight from the Kennedy era, an entree of terrific richness and dainty proportion.

Unlike Mother's Day, which sprung from early anti-war efforts, National Crown Roast of Pork Day (March 7) has no political underpinnings.