Yes, I do that, too. Make a sauce out of the juices by adding red wine and broth, scrape, reduce, then add butter, stir, and pour over chops on the plate.
Most every grocery store around me has an entire lamb section, just like they have a poultry and a beef section. They butcher it all in store, package it, and put it out. They will also custom butcher for you on request.
Looks good, just not a lamb fan, grew up on a farm prefer beef or pork. blasphemy I know
I like lamb occasionally, but like you I much prefer beef or pork. On one of my safari's the PH was a cattle rancher on top of the big game hunting operation. We had wild game almost every meal, but the last night they roasted lamb over an open fire. Well I'm guessing it wasn't a lamb, but more like an old dry ewe. It was horrible!
Fortunately the cook had also made Impala roast, so all was not lost. The PH's family was raving about how good the "lamb" was and their oldest son asked us if we ate a lot of lamb to which I responded "no". He then asked me why with kind of a puzzled look on his face and I told him "because we have beef and pork".
Know fat, know flavor. No fat, no flavor.
I tried going vegan, but then realized it was a big missed steak.
I haven't seen lamb for sale for years. The last was clearance at Fort Dodge Walmart.
wabi,
I've been told our local auction yard has them on the block every year. Not sure what time of year though. I've thought about getting one to fatten up and maybe butcher it myself or bring it 80 miles to the custom butcher over the line in Oregon.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)