{"id":845,"date":"2022-10-03T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2024-04-09T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:52:16","slug":"meatballmonday-eight-legged-meatbeastie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/meatballmonday-eight-legged-meatbeastie\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-legged Meatbeastie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you in the mood for meatballs, but you need a special occasion to justify the effort? Saturday is World Octopus Day!<\/a> Celebrate our otherworldly<\/a> ocean neighbors with this very simple plate presentation. This format also doubles as a Halloween spider, so freeze the extra meatballs for a quick meal before Trick-or-Treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cute, but not “too cute to eat” cute.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I can waste a lot of time looking at pictures of crazy foods, especially sculptures with a holiday theme. And it’s really wasted time, as I don’t waste food and money creating something that nobody in my circle wants to eat (for whatever reason–dyes, sugar, contradictory flavors, “Americanness”…). Then I saw this little guy<\/a> on a German website, and he is 100% made of foods we eat regularly: A Frikadell<\/a><\/em>e<\/em>,<\/a> some red bell pepper (rote Paprika<\/em>), mayonnaise. We ate all the leftover raw pepper strips with our meal, so no waste there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eyeballs are Kapern<\/em>, capers, which was a new ingredient for me, and now that I have a jar open in the fridge, I’m going to be putting eyeballs on all my sandwiches. Note<\/strong>: I found the original recipe a bit dry, but today’s #MeatballMonday<\/a> is all about creative plating, so use your own favorite non-sauced meatball, then sit back and accept the accolades!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss Hannele with her Meatbeastie.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a spider! It’s an octopus! It’s a meatball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,111,42],"tags":[43,25,46],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meatballmonday","category-current-vibe","category-holiday-traditions","tag-halloween","tag-meatballs","tag-octopus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t