Braised lamb shanks

Everything arrived and we had red wine braised lamb shanks with polenta for Friday night dinner. The lamb was truly outstanding -- absolutely delicious! Even with the long slow cooking time the lamb was full of flavor that came through the red wine-rosemary braising sauce and it was exceptionally tender but not in the least bit watery or dull (something that I often find with conventionally raised beef and lamb). Plus we were really glad that our lambs lived a happy life and died an easy death -- sounds weird, but we actually thought about this a lot over dinner and decided that this kind of meat eating is so much more in tune with Torah teaching.