Haven't had a chance to make the meatballs yet. (Need to go shopping for the meat!)
Hoping to, by the end of the week.
Yeah, the ear was bad. By the end, I was on 3 different kinds of antibiotics
at the same time.
This sucker was so bad I was sent to the ER for a CT scan to make sure it wasn't in the mastoid bone.
All from something that flared up out of nowhere, no cold, nothun. I'm about 95% better, now. The infection is gone, there's just some lingering damage to the eustachian tube.
Been playing a lot of "catch up" -- stuff like trying to get laundry and shopping done -- while trying to "keep up" with the rest of the world. Need to do my grocery run in the next couple of days... There WILL be a chub of ground beef. There WILL be ground pork... And I know where to get chicken and turkey, too.
(All you folks pushing broth... you have GOT to try multi-meat bone broth. Start with, say, a chicken carcass... boil it out for broth, freeze. Then take the frozen broth, and use it to boil out bone-broth from, say... turkey. (Add more water if you need to, but use all the original broth you froze.) Then lamb. Then goat. Then pork. Then....
OMFG, multi-meat broth is the best! Anyway, I know it's not the same, but I think meatballs taste better when they have more meats in them.)
It's gonna take pretty much a day. Start with the base: Meats, some eggs for binder... powdered parmesan instead of breadcrumbs.
Then the batches:
"Standard"
(Basically, Italian seasonings, some more parma, maybe some mozzerella)
Sesame
(Maybe a shot or two of soy sauce. Some sesame oil. Generous helpings of sesame SEEDS)
"Hot-wing"
Blue-cheese, buffalo-wing sauce...
"Taco-style"
taco seasoning*, Mexican cheese blend
You get the idea.
Pretty much any flavor-profile you can come up with, you can use to make meatballs.
It's time-consuming, only because you have to make the little balls, and I like to do a LOT at once. But once you've got them stashed in the freezer, it's really a thing of beauty. Grab one for a quick snack. Toss 'em on top of a salad. Pack several for lunch... serve as appetizers.... You can add so many things, and get such different flavors, from the same base, and with the same, assembly-line cooking method...
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Taco seasoning: gredients
1 tbsp Chili Powder.
1 tsp ground cumin.
1 tsp salt.
1/2 tsp paprika.
1/4 tsp garlic powder.
1/4 tsp onion powder.
1/4 tsp dried oregano.
1/4 tsp black pepper.
Don't buy pre-made, they add carbs