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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New to the site just the week and already can’t wait to spend Sunday before my daughters come over to prep a bunch of new recipes for the week. This is my first paleo week and too many people are eating pizza all around me!!! Think this recipe will be perfect for Monday’s dinner.
Brand new to Paleo this week and am very happy I found your site! I look forward to lots of great recipes and can’t wait for Sunday to prepare a bunch of new things for my daughters to try next week! Thank you for all the excellent food Ideas and posts that I hope will make me stop craving pizza and more white bread then any human should eat!!!
Juli you are a genius! Seriously a genius. Just thought I would let you know 🙂 Thanks for making the paleo world a tastier place!
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Hi Juli!
Is there a way to modify the sauce to eliminate the coconut milk? I can’t use almond milk either. ;( A good friend of mine is sensitive to both coconut & allmonds. I’m trying to figure out how to modify this so that she can still create it.
Thanks!! =)
P.S. I agree with a previous comment that you should take lots of pictures at the CF competition, blur out the faces and then do Perez Hilton type of comments! GREAT idea for a very enjoyable and might I say, indulgent blog post! =)
I have the same question as RG! I can’t do coconut milk but maybe almond will work?
Ha! I was at a competition just last weekend and spotted a group of girls wearing highlighter shirts, high socks, and tiaras. Since when did Crossfit competitions turn into raves? It kind of reminded me of something out of that movie mean girls…except I think they were in their 30s…
I’m telling that Danish is the BEST!!! My mom loves it and always takes the leftovers home with her so I know your mom will too!
Hey, I love those kind of shirts! I might be a 30 ish mom but apparently I’m a dirty old sailor on the inside who can’t help but snicker at the snatch and thruster jokes!
Hi Juli. You have probably answered this a million times (newby alert) but it seems like you use coconut oil as opposed to olive oil. Is there a reason? Health? Taste? Chemistry?
Good luck in your competition and I’m glad you loathe blinding shirts with stupid/dirty logos too!! lol. I looked at the photos of your food and actually wanted to lick the computer screen…which would’ve been a let down and I’d have to clean the screen. You should invent “cybersample”(my personally coined phrase-thank you) where you can smell the food you’ve made!! Do it!! 🙂
hahaha!!!! THE PART WHEN YOU SAID YOUR SHIRT IS A LIE!!! HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!