Cooking Experiment: Three-Flavor Meatballs
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tuftearsGasp, posting a cooking experiment on the same day I made it!
Anyway-- I peered in my refrigerator the other week and noticed that there were expiration dates on the bottles of sauce I had in there.
Uh oh...
One bottle in particular had an expiration date of 2012. Oops.
I moved the expired sauces out to be cleaned out for disposal, and eyed the remaining sauces. Red curry sauce, gyoza sauce, and sweet chili sauce, all from Trader Joe's. Hmm... What could I make that would use these things up?
Then I had an idea.
I bought 1.5 pounds of pork, a similar amount of zucchini, and used half the zucchini for filler for the pork meatballs, along with one root's worth of grated ginger, sautee'd to bring out the flavor, and the leftover basil that had been sitting in the freezer for forever. I steamed most of the meatballs, but the ones that wouldn't fit, I put into a tray to bake for comparison.
I heated the red curry sauce, but didn't feel any particular need to heat the other sauces other than heating the whole plate in the microwave for a minute to bring it up to temperature, since everything had cooled off somewhat while I was packing away the rest for prepared meals.
Verdict: Delicious!
The ginger and basil in the meatballs give them great flavor, and they are nicely moist as well, as compared to ground turkey which can get awfully dry. All three sauces worked well, but I think the red curry sauce would be best with the meatballs if I were using only one sauce in the future.
Anyway-- I peered in my refrigerator the other week and noticed that there were expiration dates on the bottles of sauce I had in there.
Uh oh...
One bottle in particular had an expiration date of 2012. Oops.
I moved the expired sauces out to be cleaned out for disposal, and eyed the remaining sauces. Red curry sauce, gyoza sauce, and sweet chili sauce, all from Trader Joe's. Hmm... What could I make that would use these things up?
Then I had an idea.
I bought 1.5 pounds of pork, a similar amount of zucchini, and used half the zucchini for filler for the pork meatballs, along with one root's worth of grated ginger, sautee'd to bring out the flavor, and the leftover basil that had been sitting in the freezer for forever. I steamed most of the meatballs, but the ones that wouldn't fit, I put into a tray to bake for comparison.
I heated the red curry sauce, but didn't feel any particular need to heat the other sauces other than heating the whole plate in the microwave for a minute to bring it up to temperature, since everything had cooled off somewhat while I was packing away the rest for prepared meals.
Verdict: Delicious!
The ginger and basil in the meatballs give them great flavor, and they are nicely moist as well, as compared to ground turkey which can get awfully dry. All three sauces worked well, but I think the red curry sauce would be best with the meatballs if I were using only one sauce in the future.
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Date: 2015-09-08 05:21 pm (UTC)They look tasty too! :9
And you're allowed to post same-day cooking photos? I thought union rules required you to save them until you had a minimum of three posts ready or something. n_n
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Date: 2015-09-08 11:25 pm (UTC)