Ugh. I’m doing a CrossFit competition soon. Gross. I honestly hate competitions nowadays. I competed for 3 years, loved every second of it, then one day that love was gone. I just didn’t want to lift that heavy anymore. But when you go to competitions, everyone competing is either half naked or dressed in highlighter colored shirts with sayings like, “I’ve got a great snatch.” Well, if you’re talking about your olympic lift, your shirt is a lie. If you’re talking about your private parts, you’re disgusting. So yeah, I get a bit annoyed at competitions. But I told my CrossFit Broadway friends that I would do the competition and smile. So that’s what I will do…while I ignore the highlighter shirts that are burning my retinas.
When I made the meatballs yesterday, the curry powder got under my fingernails and turned them orange for the day. Real cute look.
So I hate to admit it, because I’m not a teenage girl, but I’m extremely excited for the new season of Catfish. Have you watched that show? Here is the summary if you’ve never seen it: young people meet other young people on FB, they talk for years, for in love, make plans, get engaged, all while never meeting each other and sometimes never seeing each other in person. Well, the show confronts one of the people in the relationship, and most of the time, it’s not actually the same person. It’s usually a girl pretending to be a guy, because they hate the other girl. Real mature stuff. It’s so addicting. I’m glad I’ve never fallen in love with someone through social media. This show also makes me wonder if someone has taken my pictures and is pretending to be me because that happens ALL.THE.TIME. on the show. It’s real strange. I’ve never thought of being anyone else on the internet other than my weird self. That would just be exhausting. Anywho, I can’t wait for the new season. Judge me. Do it.
It’s Mother’s Day this weekend! I’m guessing you already knew that since every other commercial on TV is out to remind us and entice us into buying flowers, and chocolates, and jewelry, and perfume. Well, I know what I’m doing for my mom. Doing what I like to do best and know she will love. I’m making a recipe called Chocolate Swirl Cheese Danish Cake from the cookbook The Paleo Chocolate Lover’s Cookbook. Paleo danish? Yes please. I just think brunch is the best, so that’s what I will be doing. And that’s what I shared with reader’s on my Mother’s Day Newsletter today! Check out my newsletter I sent out today and subscribe in the left hand to get more newsletters like this one, with favorite recipes from the archives of PaleOMG! That way I’ll be able to keep you updated with giveaways, book tours, and exciting upcoming recipes! Woot woot!
PS- I’m incredibly excited for my rest day from the gym today. I’m going to style my hair and everything. Today is a great day.
Thai Pork & Veggie Meatballs
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
For the meatballs
- 2 small zucchinis, shredded
- 2 small carrots, shredded
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1/2 pound ground turkey
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- salt and pepper, to taste
For the sauce
- 1 (14 ounce) can of coconut milk
- ¼ cup smooth almond butter
- 1 tablespoon coconut aminos
- 1 tablespoon chili garlic sauce (or sriracha)
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 tablespoons curry powder
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- pinch of salt
To garnish
- chopped green onions
- chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place zucchinis and carrots in a food processor using the shredding attachment. Remove shredded zucchini and carrots from the food processor and squeeze out excess water with some paper towels.
- Place zucchini, carrots, pork, turkey, and the rest of the the meatball ingredients in a bowl and use your hands to combine.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out meatballs then shape in hands. Set aside on a plate. This should be 12-15 large meatballs.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all sauce ingredients until completely combine.
- Place a large oven safe saucepan or cast iron skillet over medium-high heat and add a teaspoon of sesame oil or other cooking oil (coconut oil). Once saucepan is hot, add meatballs to the pan and brown on all sides. Once browned, remove from heat, pour all of the sauce on top of meatballs.
- Place saucepan in and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until meatballs are cooked through. This time will range depending on the size of the meatballs.
- Garnish meatballs with chopped cilantro and green onions.
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Hi Juli! I love your blog! I saw this recipe and cannot wait to make it – totally one of my favorite flavor profiles. I was wondering if you had a set “staple list” of the ingredients that you keep in your pantry? I live in the middle of nowhere and it is difficult to find some of the ingredients so I tend to order from Amazon or have to purchase things when I travel to a city. I recently stocked up on the various flours that you typically use in your baked goods, but this recipe has coconut aminos, which I don’t have. I thought if you had a list of pantry staples, that would be awesome so I can be prepared to cook your delicious recipes! Thank you so much!
you know, i just buy spices as i go and then they build up over time. as for other stuff, i keep baking stuff like tapioca flour, almond flour, and coconut flour along with chocolate chips and eggs all the time because i love to bake. i don’t have an actual list on here but in both of my cookbooks ‘omg. that’s paleo?’ and ‘the paleo kitchen’ i have really elaborated lists!
Thank you soso much! I will def be getting those 🙂 I am such a paleo newbie 🙂
Hi. I wanted to read some comments regarding your recipe before I actually made it for a crowd. I found it difficult to find many useful tips or hints since this is more of a blog about CrossFit and other personal opinions than a helpful recipe site. I did end up following your recipe to a “T”. Here are my questions and comments. How did you achieve the lovely red colour in your photos? The curry powder made the sauce yellow. There is not, to my knowledge, a red curry powder on the market. There is not enough chilli garlic sauce in the recipe to achieve a prominent red colour. The flavour was nice overall, but lacked any substantial heat that I associate with great Thai food. The meatballs are lovely but the sauce, not so much. So, in as much as the comments section relates mostly to folks who want to try the recipe but who haven’t yet, I would suggest they try it and then post some helpful comments and suggestions.
The CF competition rant, so FUNNY. You need to share more of those thoughts, because I thought I was the only one in the world that felt the same way!!!!!!! Maybe you can take secret photos at the CF competition (and black out their faces) and do Perez Hilton style critiques (fashion don’ts!)!!! I would find that to be so very amusing!! 🙂 Thanks for making me laugh every morning!
P.S. Where are pictures of Jackson? I’ve grown accustomed to seeing photos of his cute face!
Haha your description of those t-shirts made me laugh out loud. Good thing I’m working along today because explaining it could have been a little awkward (to non-Crossfitters and British people who don’t use the term).
Moving on swiftly, this dish looks so delicious. I love the idea of putting the veggies into the meatballs and the sauce sounds divine.
Good luck in the competition!
Hi Juli,
I signed up for your newsletter and right after that I was taken to a site that wasn’t yours. It was 35palomg.com or something like that. Just wanted you to know. Maybe it was just a fluke but you may want to test it.
I did get the confirmation email for the newsletter
what? that is really really strange. where did you sign up through? my website or a link i gave you?
I had the same thing happen, and I didn’t get the Mother’s Day email today. I used the pop up on your page to register.
This happened to me also. I think it is just a typo in the link, it goes to paloemg (and no website loaded). I used the sign-up that it is in the bottom-right corner of your website.
I love all things Thai and can’t wait to try these meatballs!
so sorry about that guys! i got that little typo fixed!
I LOVE Crossfit, but sometimes I think Glassman invented it to test our basic math skills (let’s see, that’s 2 45 lb plates, plus 2 25s, 35 lb bar…. what’s the Rx?) AND to create an excuse for grown men to say “rack” and “snatch” everyday.
And box, and jerk
Hi Juli! These look divine but my husband hates curry powder 🙁 any suggestions on what I could use as a substitute?
honestly, you could take it out and it would still taste just as good!
loved the mothers day email it was perfect timing to get a few recipes together for sunday. meatballs looks so so good 🙂
I signed up in the corner box that says, “Don’t Miss a Bite”, and mine is working fine! Just putting that out there! Maybe it’s when using another link?
PS, totally love what you said about the highlighters and wearing stupid shirts. My girlfriends and I at crossfit were JUST talking about that…we hate that the only shirts out there for crossfitters say things about “I lift heavy stuff” or “I love jerks”. And nobody should wear a shirt that says anything about a snatch! Soooo glad we aren’t the only ones tired of all that! LOL
I still haven’t planned anything for mother’s day yet! I know I’m so horrible but I will think of something soon!
These meatballs look so flavorful! I like how you used curry powder. I love curry!
If you like Catfish then watch the documentary Talhotblonde on Netflix. It’s also a lifetime movie. You won’t be disappointed!
omg that movie was so CREEPY. the main guy as just odd and made me uncomfortable the entire time.