Lamb

I never thought I'd be eating the best lamb I'd ever had while hunched over in a smoked out house reading the ESPN website. But I've realized things like that can happen when you get the right cookbook.

For the record, this lamb is not old. It's grilled lamb with green pea sauce and mint vinaigrette, from a Bobby Flay cookbook. It looked good in real life. I should look on some photography website, but I bet a straight-down shot in harsh light is not the way to go.

Bobby Flay's book is "Grill It!" But it's dark by the time I start cooking, so I tried to "Broil it?" Afterwards, the smoke was so thick we had trouble seeing to the other side of the room, and we learned: Fume hoods are good. So Delia would go nowhere near the kitchen until we opened all the windows and waited for the smoke to clear and for our house to reach 43 degrees inside.

But it was worth it.

Delia emerged from hiding to photograph Max looking at the fan.