{"id":1915,"date":"2023-02-27T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2023-03-30T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:30:18","slug":"fresh-fleischballchen-from-the-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/27\/fresh-fleischballchen-from-the-supermarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Fleischb\u00e4llchen from the Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve made any new meatball recipes.  We&#8217;ve had <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/14\/secrets-of-the-cherballs-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Cherballs\">Cherballs<\/a> a few times, the Israeli ones when pure ground beef was on sale (gotta use up that <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/meatballmonday-fleischballchen-israeli-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Baharat\">Baharat<\/a>), and &#8220;normal&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/30\/meatballmonday-bouletten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Buletten\">Buletten<\/a>&#8230;I am still enthusiastic about meatballs, just not doing much exploring.<br><br>Anyway, last week Mr Radish was away on business, and long enough that I was able to eat all the foods he doesn&#8217;t like, but still had to fix myself a lunch after doing the Saturday shop.  As I walked by the meat counter, there they were: tiny fresh pre-made meatballs, of mixed beef and pork, next to some other pre-made finger foods intended for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danceswithbratwurst.com\/wp\/2016\/02\/freising-freitag-fasching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Fasching\">Fasching<\/a> party. The strapping young butcher trainee behind the counter seemed surprised when I asked for eight pieces. 1) That came out to 114g, or about 4oz, a perfectly cromulent lunch serving. 2) I didn&#8217;t know if I would enjoy them; the herbs and flavors used were not on the signage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_raw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_raw.jpg 555w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_raw-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hygienic single-use plastic packaging, which of course I will reuse.<\/em><br><em>February 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dropped them in a hot pan on the stove for a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_pan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1917\" width=\"563\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_pan.jpg 750w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_pan-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Yum.<br>February 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then ate them with an onion roll from the <em>Dinkel<\/em>* wagon at the <em>Wochenmarkt<\/em>, which is one of my new favorite things.  (There was cream cheese for the roll, and some homemade Jalape\u00f1o BBQ sauce.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_served.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_served.jpg 559w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/supermarket_balls_served-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Double yum.<br>February 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So, Radish, how they did taste?&#8221;<br><br>They were pretty good. A bit of a Bratwurst flavor&#8211;heavy on the marjoram, with some onion and black pepper.  Next time, I buy more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/meatballmonday-paprika-meatball-stroganoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"I am obsessed with Dinkel and the joy it creates\">I am still obsessed with <em>Dinkel<\/em> and the joy it creates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick post about a quick lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[25,133],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meatballmonday","tag-meatballs","tag-pickles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}