Turkey Meatball Madness

Normally not a fan of meatballs, but I do enjoy a very portable shape to my protein. Poached chicken slices have been my go-to up until this point. Now I have discovered baked turkey meatballs made with shredded veggies and breadcrumbs (for structural integrity - I found this out by not having any breadcrumbs the first time around). Recipes online abound, in many permutations. So far, my recipe involves diced crimini mushrooms, chopped parsley, garlic, and shredded zucchini/carrot. And an eggwhite - buying eggwhites in a carton for use in low cholesterol omelets has proved a very useful thing to have in the fridge. So yeah, these meatballs. I see that I could use coarsely chopped dry bread instead of pulverized bread crumbs, too. Very tasty and wickedly easy. Quick. Fun to squish up the mixture with my hands, too. I'm thrilled to have another easy, tasty, low-fat protein source. Gobble gobble.

Ketchup Couverture

What happens when you combine ketchup with unflavored cocoa-butter? Omg, ketchup-dipped cold fried chicken bonbons. I must try it. Even though I think ketchup is The Worst Condiment. Maybe I'll wait until they make mustard couverture.

Ketchup Couverture, which I discovered first on Neatorama.

Salad Orgasm 2010

Haven't eaten a salad in a long damn time. Fond of stews and poached things and potatoes and collards, I guess. Eggs. But a person needs some crisp greens and crunchy radishes/cucumbers/red cabbage, fo sho. I had a serious, serious craving. All this heavy winter food, I need a SALAD.

So I bought some stuff and made one: bib lettuce, baby spinach, fresh radishes, English cuke, red cabbage, red bell pepper. Homemade vinaigrette made of blood orange juice, maple syrup, mustard, basil, olive oil, garlic. Ate this delicious salad with some sourdough slices, and a zucchini/potato/garlic pattie made with egg and a little flour as a binder. Melted muenster on top of that. Griddled with Pam spray.

A. Mazing. Best meal I've eaten in a long time, and my jaws are actually tired from crunching up all that fresh crispy roughage. Salad dinner rocks.