Dinner tonight: mutton chops, gnocchi, and mushroom garlic cream sauce

[Recursion]

These are my first homemade gnocchi in years, but it worked out really well, I think.

[whistler162]

1. Mutton Chops aren't they a tad hairy?

[Pakhet]

2. Sounds wonderful. Enjoy! n/t

[KartBlanche]

3. I love lamb. Where do you find mutton?

And what, pray tell, is/are gnocchi?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Gnocchi are small potato dumplings often used in Italian cooking

Welcome to DU!

[KamaAina]

5. In India, where he's presently based

And welcome to DU!

[Recursion]

7. To expand a bit on KamaAina's post

So there's a lot of impedence mismatch about food in the various places English is spoken.

I'm stationed in India, where "mutton" equally means "sheep" or "goat". These were goat chops, in American terms.

Sheep are less common here but still popular particularly among Indian Catholics. And where I am in particular, Mumbai (you may have grown up knowing it as "Bombay&quot the most popular meat far and away is fish. (Indian seafood is amazing, btw, and it's a shame Americans can get it so rarely.)

In the Commonwealth, "lamb" is a sheep of IIRC 6 months of age or less, and mutton is any older sheep. In the US, "lamb" is up to two years old, and "mutton" is older than that. So what most Americans would call a "lamb chop" most Brits would call a "mutton chop".

[Initech]

6. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... gnocchi!

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