{"id":2516,"date":"2023-08-14T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:09:42","slug":"august-meatball-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/august-meatball-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"August Meatball Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best August weather of all time!<\/a> I’m not complaining: instead of eating cold cheese on bread because it’s too hot to cook, I got to make meatballs!

Due to a tragic previous over-purchase of carrots, I settled on this “Meatball Stew<\/a>“–the one without canned soup–from a 1977 Betty Crocker cookbook that I had discovered some months ago while looking for something else. (If you’re looking for cheap eats, Carter-era cookbooks are a good resource, and there are many free to browse at the Internet Archive<\/a>.)

Instead of ground beef, I used the mix of pork and beef sold as standard at every German supermarket. The crumbs were handmade (food-blogger smirk), earlier in the summer on a day when we accidentally bought more Brezn<\/a><\/em> than we could eat. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The “Basic Meatballs” contain both egg and milk, and were very juicy. I will add herbs next time, at least parsley, to get more umami.<\/p>\n\n\n

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August 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I treated the balls to some high fast heat in my big deep pan to build up the R\u00f6staroma<\/em>. Once they started to splatter I added the rest of the ingredients and let them finish off in the liquid. Easy clean-up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The basic stew recipe sounded a little bland, so I threw in the unused half of the onion, some garlic, and some of that celery seed leftover from that earlier project<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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August, can you believe it?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I should have dropped some flour or starch in the liquid; it was too thin for my taste, but Mr Radish really liked it. I wished I had thrown in more onion, and added mushrooms. Verdict: Recipe is a good starting place, but needs more oomph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vintage Betty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meatballmonday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}