Irish Lamb Stew with Herbed Goat Cheese Dumplings

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I made this tonight for dinner, it turned out excellent, despite some glaring errors in the recipe.

1 - The list of ingredients called for 1 1/2 teaspoons of Baking POWDER, the directions call for you to add the Baking SODA to the flour mixture. I chose to use Baking POWDER, and the dumplings were great.

2 - The directions call for you to melt the butter, blend in the flour, then add the diced onion, celery, and carrot, and cook for about eight minutes. That would never work, you should soften the diced vegetables in the butter BEFORE adding the flour.

While it's not mentioned in the recipe you should skim as much fat from the cooking broth (veal stock as possible before adding it to the roux. Lamb shoulder releases a good bit of fat during the slow roasting process. The excess fat can give a very strong taste to the gravy if it's not removed.

All in all an excellent dish. The dumplings with goat cheese and herbs were outstanding.

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Made this for dinner last night and it didn't go over very well. Although the lamb was wonderful none of us were big fans of the dumplings, which normally we love. I also felt like the mixture of goat cheese and lamb was a bit too over powering and gamy.

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Actually, I have yet to try the stew, but plan on making it for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. I would, however, like to address the comment made by jjgallagheriv_1. Of course peasants had access to veal stock. If one takes a minute to think, if a peasant was lucky enough to have a lamb, which would have been butchered for it meat to make the stew, then of course they would also have the bones of the lamb that would be necessary to make the stock in the first place. In addition, if the individual was purchasing the lamb from a butcher during that time period, then they could also ask for the bones in order to make stock. My advice, don't get so over heated about something you obviously have no knowledge about.

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I made this for dinner yesterday evening as I had a lamb shoulder in the freezer to use. The recipe is straight forward and I followed it as stated with two deviations. I added a little white wine when adding the broth and I added whole button mushrooms to the recipe. (added with the carrots and celery The mushrooms were a great addition. As I was adding the final touches to the dinner, my husband saw me making the dumplings and said 'what is that you are doing?' He had never heard of nor tried dumpings! It was a first for him and one of the reasons I choose this recipe. Needless to say he yummed all thru dinner and now he is a dumpling fan. We both enjoyed this dish very much as it is very tasty. It is now in my keeper file.

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Veal stock? where do you guys get off? REALLY! I'm sure Irish peasants really had veal stock at their ready when making stew?

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It was amazingly easy to cook, and was completely shocked at how wonderful it tasted. I had a back up meal planned just in case, but had not need in it. We plan on trying more lamb recipes. Even the children are thrilled to try the next upcoming meal of lamb.
I was a bit worried about the goat cheese, but wow, it was great.
Highly recommend this stew

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This is one of my favorite lamb stew recipes. I cheated on the dumplings and used an old trick of my mother's. I took pinches of prepared biscuits in the can and added the goat cheese. It came out fantastic and my friends at work want to know when I'm making it again so they can get leftovers!

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This was sooo very good. I made it and all of it was gone. No leftovers!

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This was easy to make, however the 'grits' weren't easy to find. I used bulghar wheat instead.
Be sure to purchase lamb from reputable source or dish may have overpowering lamb taste.

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The roast smelled great coming out of the oven. However when we add the stock/pan drippings into the stew,it created an over-powering lamb flavor. I think the recipe might have been better,if fresh stock was added to the stew instead. I would advise that the cook make sure that everyone eating really likes the taste of lamb. The dumplings turned out very nice.