Apple Tarragon Meatballs

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Plate of apple and tarragon pork meatballs with zucchini noodles.

It’s been a great first week in our new place! We’re pretty much settled in and unpacked which always feels nice. Both Joe and I feel so much more content and happier in this place than the last one… we both keep saying we wish we were living here from the start but I’m sure we appreciate it that much more because we had to go through living in a not so nice place with lots of problems at the start.

Yesterday we went for a bit of a wander around the neighbourhood and I snapped some photos so I’ll share those in another post some time this week hopefully. Also for those of you who aren’t following me on my Facebook page you might not know that we are now living pretty much across the road from a castle! Crazy huh?! We even get free annual passes to the castle which we collected yesterday, which means we can pop over whenever we like! So yep overall life is good 🙂

So on to the recipe! This is the first one I’m sharing from our new place… YAAAYYYY!!! For this recipe I got to thinking about classic flavour combinations, specifically two or three ingredients that go REALLY well together and that have stood the test of time. Things like salt and caramel, garlic, tomato and basil or chocolate and bacon… YEP! All fantastic flavour combinations.

One of the quickest and easiest things I make are meatballs, we buy a lot of ground meat, it’s cheaper than a lot of other cuts of meat and convenient as it can be prepared a number of different ways. Plus you can flavour it in SO many different ways that personally I find it hard to get sick of. Plus I think if you’re looking at going paleo and are finding it daunting because you think grass-fed/pastured meat is expensive then using ground meat is a great option!

Anyway back to the recipe! So since we had some pastured ground pork in the freezer I decided to use that as the base for my meatballs, then I thought about what flavours go well with pork and I decided on apple and tarragon. I mean talk about a classic combination! Pork and apples together are AMAZING but the addition of tarragon makes it even BETTER!

Apple Tarragon Meatballs

Apple, Tarragon and Pork Meatballs

Ingredients:
  • 500gm/1.1lbs ground pork (preferably pastured pork).
  • 1 Pink Lady apple or apple of your choice (Pink Ladies are one of my favourite apples!).
  • 2 tsp dried tarragon.
  • Himalayan salt, to taste.
  • Freshly cracked black pepper, to taste.
Method:

Preheat oven to 180C/350F.

Line a baking tray with foil or parchment paper.

Place ground pork into a mixing bowl.

Wash, core, peel and grate the apple on a box grater or in a food processor. Add the grated apple to the pork.

Add the tarragon and season with the S&P.

Using your hands mix everything together well.

Form medium sized meatballs with your hands with the mixture and place onto the lined baking tray as you go.

Place in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the meatballs are cooked through.

Serve with spiralised zucchini noodles and enjoy!

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Italian Pork Frittata with Balsamic Glaze

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Plate with Italian style pork frittata

I’ve been wanting to share this recipe for about a week now (seriously where does the time go?!) but I was having problems with the software I use for my photos so I had to wait until that was all sorted. Luckily it looks like it’s been fixed now, which means I get to share this with you… YAAAYYYY!!!

Before I tell you about this recipe though I wanted to share something really cute that Joe said to me last night (and sorry if you’re reading this love but I just HAD to share!). So last night we were supposed to go down to the supermarket to pick up a few things and Joe needed some shaving cream, but I wasn’t feeling the best and just wanted to eat and relax after dinner so I suggested for him to use some of my coconut oil to shave. He isn’t a fan of the smell of coconut oil but I convinced him to give it a go. Well turns out he liked it and was happy with how it worked and the cute part… after he was done he came to me and said something along the lines of “there’s so many strange looking ingredients in my regular shaving cream.” Seriously I thought that was so cute and so observant of him :). This morning I asked him if he wanted me to go get him some shaving cream today and he said no I’m happy to use the coconut oil. GO JOE!!! [Read more…]

Sweet Potato Patties

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Plate of sweet potato patties

Can you believe that it’s been 6 months since Joe and I moved to England?! I SERIOUSLY can’t believe it! It’s a strange feeling because when I think back it doesn’t really feel like we’ve been here for that long but I swear the days just fly by! I went back today and read over this post I wrote just before we left the States… Joe and I miss a lot of things from our life in America, I think after 2 years it was starting to feel like home there and then we decided to come here and now we are working on settling down here. I’m not sure it will be a permanent thing… us living here but for now this is where we have to be 🙂 Who knows what will happen in another year, if we’ll be on the move again or if we’ll decide to stick it out here. In any case I often feel like a modern day nomad… the suitcases that have travelled with us since 2011 from Australia are big reminders of that for me! Anyway you gotta do these things when you’re young right! 😉

Now onto more important things like FOOD hahaha! I thought it would be fun to share with you my top 5 favourite vegetables, I know when some people think of the “paleo diet” they think we all just sit there eating bacon and eggs, and well I’m not saying we don’t but we (well I hope we do) also eat a lot of veggies and fruit! I’ve read from a couple of other paleo bloggers that when they made the switch people would often ask them what they ate if they couldn’t eat bread or pasta… as if these are the only two foods on the planet! Paleo for me personally has opened the doors to a much wider variety of food and things that I may not have ever tried before. Now I enjoy picking up a different vegetable or even fruit when I’m out shopping and I have fun experimenting with different ways to cook/use these things. For e.g. I recently picked up a cassava/yuca, I’ve NEVER tasted one before let alone cooked it but I wanted to try something different so I picked it up.

Picture of a cassava

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Lemon Oregano Chicken

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Plate of lemon oregano chicken

The other day I got to thinking about how this whole love of cooking and creating dishes came about for me. These days I love to be in the kitchen making food from scratch that I know is not only going to be tasty and delicious but also healthy and nutritious… see what I did there 😉

But it wasn’t always like this for me. In fact I hardly ever spent time in the kitchen growing up, I can remember plenty of times when my mum would ask my older sister or I to come help her in the kitchen and we would always make some sort of excuse not to go in there, we even struggled with making the salad each night because neither of us wanted to stand around chopping up a cucumber or shredding lettuce!

At that time I didn’t really care about what was going in my mouth and where it was coming from. Sure we ate most of our meals at home, cooked by my mum but there was also the trips to the fast food joints and ordering lunch or buying snacks at the canteen or vending machines from school (makes me SHUDDER at the thought!)

University was much the same, most of my meals there came from one of the Cafes on campus or from the shopping centre (mall) close by that we would drive to for lunch or just because we wanted to hang out. [Read more…]

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