Ron's Gyros Recipe

What's the only thing that can stop TYRANNY AND TERROR?
-Freedom, human freedom.
What's the only thing that can stop ONIONS & GARLIC & GROUND LAMB made
into a GOOD GYROS?
-Nothin... Nothin can.

You and Leila ought to try your hand at making gyros. I'm just silly
about them. A while back i bought 40lbs of ground lamb, and we're down
to about 6lb left.

Here's my recipe:

Smash together in your food processor:

1-2 Tbl dehydrated garlic flakes
1 tsp peppercorns
1 tsp coriander seed
1/2 tsp marjoram
a bunch of salt (maybe 1-2 Tbl, just a bunch)
Smash with the metal blade till powderized. Add:
1/2 sweet onion (or whole one, if its small)
1 egg

Smash & scrape till well pulpified. Switch to the dough blade and add 2lb ground lamb. Pulse & scrape till well mixed, but don't blend too long or unnecessarily or it will toughen the meat too much. Remove the meatwad to a separate bowl & rinse out processor.

Metal blade back in. Pulpify and mix:

1 large cucumber, peeled
1 lb sour cream
1 -2 t salt

(that's the white sauce for over top).

Chop up ripe tomatoes and sweet onions.

Fry the lamb by spooning out little bite-sized meatwads into frying pan.

If the lamb is quite lean, add vegetable oil. You'll want to have plenty of oil in the pan. Fry the wads till lightly brown.

In the oil remaining in pan, toast pita pockets in the oil (I use Kangaroo brand onion pitas) till they develop some lightly brown crunchy areas.

Sit at the table and fill your bread, slather w/ sauce.

I warn you, this is a mind-altering substance. It is addictive. You will not get tied of it. There is no escape from it. It does have a potential relationship to human freedom.

-Ron