So I often start off with recipes from a book or friend/family or website and then modify them through experimenting, usually because of my allergies but also sometimes just for fun or because I'm out of an ingredient. So last night I did a new mod to my meatball recipe, and I thought I would share the results!
What You'll Need:
1 lb ground venison
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 small onion, finely chopped, that you totally chop in advance and put in the freezer and you forgot to defrost it because you're a dork 🙃
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon each pepper, onion powder, and oregano
As much garlic powder as your heart tells you is correct (but at least 1/4 teaspoon)
Oil to grease the baking pan
Smush all the ingredients except for the oil together in a bowl using your hands. Roll into balls. Place in a greased Pyrex baking dish (you can use metal too but then you'll need to lessen the cook time probably). Bake uncovered at 400*F for 25ish minutes until no longer pink inside (my bake time is using a toaster oven which often is faster, so if you're using a big oven it might take a bit longer).
I made my first meal with these a meatball sub, in which case you can get your bread, cheese, tomato sauce, and more garlic powder (because my heart said so) ready while the meatballs are baking. I used provolone cheese. :)
Yum! :)
I don't eat tons of meat - I probably average nowadays two pounds per month maybe? - but I even more rarely eat beef. Occasionally I might have a hot dog that is beef or eat a burger from a takeaway but that's very rare. At home if I'm making something like this where the recipe is usually beef, I prefer to use a different red meat like venison or bison. They are generally healthier, and you can't factory farm deer and bison, eh? I've tried elk before but it's not my favorite. I don't know how to describe it, but it tastes ...heavier? Muskier? Neither of those are food words but I can't think of a way to say it any better. 😅 They are of course more expensive than beef, but since I eat so little meat anyway, I figure it's worth the expense. Quality over quantity in my book. Other people can have their giant Fred Flintstone size rack of ribs and I will eat my meatball and a half in a sandwich and feel like I'm going to explode. 😂
Do you like more "wild" meats like venison and bison? What do you make with them?
PS, yes, as you can tell from the packaging, I am not a hunter, I bought the venison in a store. The brand is Durham Ranch and they offer venison, wild boar, kangaroo (I've never tried that one), and maybe bison too, I don't remember. I find them at Sprouts market.
Wow I love this, well done ma
Thanks very much :)
Venison meatballs sound good 😍
I've just bought a game hamper from our local organic farm, everything lives wild on their land and they do hampers in the winter (you can also buy individual meats). The driver is lovely, I really look forward to the delivery 😍.
Oh neat, that's cool that they do that. How much is in a hamper? Will it fill your freezer kinda thing?
There's about 10-12 portions in a hamper - two game birds (pheasant/partridge), wood pigeon breasts, venison steaks and a jointed rabbit. Mr P is not sure about eating the rabbit 😂. The venison steaks were delicious cooked on the griddle and eaten with mashed potatoes and fresh steamed vegetables with a gorgeous dark gravy. I read that, in the UK, venison is the most sustainable and ethical meat.
It filled about half a freezer drawer, if that, the main challenge is fitting in the little birds - they don't come in a neat box-shape. Like you, I don't eat much meat, maybe a portion a week. A hamper will last me a good while.
On rare occasion I get - I know this is apparently a US-specific name for these but I don't know what they're called elsewhere - a "Cornish game hen," and I cook it in my little crockpot the way that a big family might cook a whole chicken in a big crock pot. It turns out nice and lasts me for several meals.
Mmm, that's a great idea. I think the partridge would have benefited from slow cooking. I wasn't really sure when it was done in the oven, plus it took me an age to get the meat from the bones 😂. Longer, slower cooking might have been a good idea all round.
"Always listen to your heart when it comes to garlic measuring ;)"
Best advice ever! 😁 I always measure "with love" but moreso with garlic, can't get enough of the stuff.
You should try it! Seriously. It's so good. Depending on how you get it anyway. For us we can get kangaroo meat in sausages, meat patties, minced, steak fillets, or roasts... I usually buy the sausages and chop them up into tiny pieces and mix it with beef mince for a bit of an iron kick -and- extra flavour. Mostly I'd recommend the steaks though. And I would not recommend the kangaroo mince at all... the texture is very offputting.
I've never tried venison personally, but those meatballs and their tonnes of garlic sound and look fantastic! 😊
Oh good to know, the kangaroo meat is only available minced here that I've seen. I will keep an eye out for sausages, though!
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It's 4AM and having just read this post, now I'm hungry! LOL I love the measuring of the garlic...
LOL I agree!
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Being Native American I've always had the pleasure of being raised with Native meat.
As a child the warriors of the tribe and family members would bring full game animals and hang them in my mom's garage. Back then it was just me and her.
I have had access to nearly all North American game. I say nearly all because I'm sure there is some stuff like skunk and coyotes as well as predators that we avoid. Ironically because I come from the bear clan we are not allowed to eat bear meat.... Yep I got gifted a big huge pile of bear meat from a friend once and I couldn't eat any bears too that my buddy whipped up. Oops.
I had avoided eating buffalo tongue and finally one day after lots of harassment from my uncle I decided to try it and have to agree it is phenomenal let alone extremely rare.
Millions of Buffalo were slaughtered primarily just for their tongues. Only some of the hides were taken but they definitely worked to get as many of the tongues as possible.
Elk is way more nutrient dense and to me definitely tastes that way. One year going to the rainbow family national gathering one of my uncles knew that I was going to the middle of a bunch of granola eating vegetarians so he gave me 20 lb of elk jerky. Mmmmm not only was I the King of trade circle but also happily fed with essential amino acids and proteins so that I didn't look at the hippies like they were dinner.
Awesome dinner and maybe one of these days I'll try kangaroo! I don't know if I've had that one before. I did get some emu once.
Have an amazing day and that absolutely looks delicious!
I'm part Mi'kmaq but I wasn't raised in the culture. Grandma is from New Brunswick but moved to the States after WWII so my mom and I were born on this side of the arbitrary border line so we aren't registered or anything. I only know a handful of words in the language and I learned those online. That's awesome that you had that community. :)
Nutrient dense, yeah, that's probably why my feeling of it is "heavy". I was first lacto-ovo vegetarian and then vegan for over a decade, but I had to quit because it turns out I have so many food allergies. So I eat meat now but have never been one of those really meat-loving people who can eat a lot of it, lol. My body is way happier with it, though!
I think that your body is just reacting because it desires the traditional food sources. There is so much that I like but a lot of it really is rough on my body.
And then I go home and start eating a bunch of traditional food and my body calms down for some reason.
Same thing with traditional medicine and healing practices. Those are more attentive to the patient's needs then Western medicine and just handing out pills are.
I've thought that too, like, my ancestry is Celtic and Mi'kmaq, so, everyone is around the 45th parallel or higher, we're all very north. And what does my body like? Meat - both hunter cultures - dairy - Celts were very big on dairy and cattle - and with a few exceptions, more root type veg - turnips, onions, sweet potatoes, and squash, apples, etc. Mostly very northern traditional foods (my main exceptions being coffee, chocolate, and tomatoes being in my diet regularly, lol, and I realize that sweet potato is from tropical places originally I think). Like there are some northern staples I still can't have, like nuts, which I have never liked anyway, but just so much of what my body does well with seems to be very old in the family tree kind of stuff. I can't even do most grains, and grains are pretty recent, human-ancestral-diet-wise. That bread roll I used is actually a cheat because I test allergic to wheat but in practice I rash only if it's whole wheat and don't if it's white.
I have had such terrible experiences with western medicine, and have tried whatever alternatives I could, but man I've never really had traditional medicine and I wonder if it wouldn't do me some real good. I've got some chronic issues that just lay me out.