Pork Red Curry (Guest Post)

by 10 Comments

Bowl of pork curry

HAPPY FRIDAY!  Here we are at the end of another week and I’ve got another excellent guest post for you today! This one comes from my wonderful friend Alisa over at Paleo in PDX. Alisa and I connected via our blogs a while back and since then through common interests and similar likes/dislikes we’ve cultivated a friendship, I truly hope that we get to meet in person some day, wherever in the world that may be.

When Alisa and I got to talking about her guest post I asked her if she would do a curry recipe for my readers. To be honest with you I’ve never made a curry in my life! I know that might come as a shock to a lot of you but I’ve just never eaten it… well that’s a lie! I have eaten it before but only a few times and each time I didn’t really like it so I guess that’s why I stayed away. Alisa on the other hand loves making and eating curries and since I’m already a HUGE fan of her other recipes, I trusted that she would create a delicious recipe to share with all of you. I’m going to take the leap and make this recipe she’s sharing here… who knows I might end up liking curries after all!

I’ll leave you with Alisa now 🙂 [Read more…]

Apple Tarragon Meatballs

by 15 Comments

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!

*PAID ENDORSEMENT DISCLOSURE: In order for me to support this blog and its activities I may receive monetary compensation or other types of remuneration for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this blog. All of the products I recommend are ones that I either own/have used myself or that I believe to be valuable. If your purchase a product via an affiliate link on this blog your cost will stay the same but Cinnamon Eats will receive a small commission, which will be used for the maintenance of this site. Thank you for your support!

 

 

Italian Pork Frittata with Balsamic Glaze

by 14 Comments

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…]

Pork Loin Steaks with Morello Cherry Sauce

by 10 Comments

Pork loin steaks with morello cherry sauce

Is it just me or did last week just go by REALLY REALLY slowly? I can’t believe it hasn’t even been 2 weeks since I’ve been back from my holiday! And yes I will definitely be doing a couple of blog posts about it but I’m still trying to decide which photos to include in the posts since I have SO MANY! I should have something up this week and probably next week too.

For this post though I wanted to share a recipe I came up with over the weekend. Sometimes I get these ideas in my head of wanting to create a dish and then I just have to run with it and keep my fingers crossed that it will work… luckily 99% of the time it does!

This recipe uses pork loin steaks and Morello cherries in syrup. I’m not 100% sure if the Morello cherries can be classified as paleo since they have sugar in them BUT the ingredients on my jar of Morello cherries were clean and I believe the sugar is there to thicken up the syrup that the cherries sit in. In any case it’s not an ingredient that I use very often but there was something about pork and cherries together that had me thinking! I’ve heard that duck and Morello cherries go well together but I personally had never heard the same about pork. I knew that pork and apple went well together so I thought why not let’s give this a go! [Read more…]

Google+