Something to eat while you're home

Anybody into cooking while you're at home? When I go out on the road, there is almost nothing for me to eat. The food at truck stops is awful, and mostly greasy, and I can't tolerate grease, so I end up living mostly on Subway sandwiches. When I get home for one week a month, though, the husband and I hit the deli/meat market and the wine store, we buy a variety of good fresh food, and I cook.

I couldn't find any other forum for posting recipes, and this one said that food talk was welcome, so I thought I would put this here. I have never written an "original recipe" before, so hopefully it makes sense. I bought some lamb shanks, had never cooked them before, so I decided to experiment and just came up with this. It is excellent! The wine that I used was a Château Campot-Lafon 2007, just your basic $20 bottle of wine. The label does not say, but it tastes like a Merlot and Caubernet Sauvignon blend.

Lamb Shanks

Ingredients:

2 lamb shanks
1 can tomato paste
1/2 litre red Bourdeaux wine
4 carrots
2 potatoes
1 whole onion
1 shallot
1 clove garlic
1 stick thyme
6 bay leaves
olive oil
salt
pepper
butter

Brown lamb shanks in a dutch oven, in olive oil, over medium heat.

Slice carrots into rondelles, and chop the potatoes into stew-
sized pieces. Peel and chop onion, shallot, and garlic, and
sautée in a generous amount of butter, in a small skillet.

When lamb shanks are evenly browned, add the sautéed onion and
garlic, and the potatoes and carrots to the dutch oven. Stir
continuously until evenly heated.

Pour Bourdeaux over the lamb shanks, slowly. Add the tomato
paste, the thyme, bay leaves, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir
until thoroughly mixed.

Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for four hours, or until the
vegetables are tender.

Serves four.

Enjoy!