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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This is a great recipe! Great job! I made it tonight and it was a big hit! I had two 12 year olds dining with us so I did not add all of the hot spices, but just enough to make it “warm”. I served it over a little white rice and had the garnishes of green onions and cilantro in a separate pretty little bowl so everyone could do their own thing. Some kids do not care for cilantro but I love it! I also used 1 lb of ground pork and 1 lb of ground chicken because I wanted to make a lot and adjusted the ingredients accordingly. This recipe is definitely going into my “keeper” binder. Thank you so much!
This is UNREAL. These are SO FREAKING GOOD I can hardly stand it. Seriously. These have changed my life.
I made this for my family tonight and they LOVED it! What type of curry are you using when you make it though? I used the curry I had on hand which was a Madras curry which gave this more of an Indian flare. It was still totally delicious, but I’m curious to know what you’re using
I entered the recipe in myfitnesspal and it came up as 848 calories per serving – is that right????
Haha absolutely not
Hi Juli!
I just made these meatballs for my coworkers and they are RAVING about how awesome they are. Just wanted to take a minute and say thank you for posting such creative and delicious recipes.
I made some cauliflower rice to go with this, and oh man it is so good!
Thanks again and have a great day. 🙂
This recipe became an instant, huge hit in our house! My husband who doesn’t even like curry licked the plate clean! I don’t recall ever having anything even close to this flavor at any Thai restaurants I have been to. Thank you so much for this recipe! I kept it very close to the original, except I didn’t have any sriracha on hand.
Made these for my boyfriend and he LOVED them! I’m not usually a very good cook when it comes to meat, I’m more of a baker and veggie roaster, but these turned out so great. Thanks!
AMAZING! I made these tonight & it was a big hit! I love your recipes, keep up the good work!
I made these, per instructions and they are great! I squeezed all the moisture out of the carrots and zucchini and the meatballs held together well. I think there may have been too much sauce, maybe enough for a double batch of the meatballs? I served it with brown rice. YUM!
These were great! Followed exactly… but decided I am not a huge curry/thai fan and added extra sriracha. Yum!