5 Toasts! Spatula here...I've been a bit (a lot) lazy when it comes to updating the blog, and am therefore a few recipes behind. I actually made one tonight that was quite similar to the one I'm reviewing right now, but that will have to wait until later. Behold! Spaghetti with turkey meatballs.
We actually had this dish a couple weeks ago. I probably had the most trouble with the meatballs, not so much making them as believing they would be done and safe to eat after a mere eight minutes cooking in hot spaghetti sauce. In the end, it was pretty darn good tasting...well tasting? Tasted well? My only gripe is that it tasted pretty much how spaghetti and beef meatballs tastes. All that tomato sauce covering it pretty much masks the taste of whatever meat you're having, leaving only a meaty texture that's interchangable between ground beef or turkey (or probably lamb).
Speaking of ground meat, one trick I find for those who are a bit squeamish about touching the stuff - let alone molding it into ball shapes - is to imagine you're on one of those dark Halloween tours where they put your hand in slimy things and tell you they're different parts of some dead guy's body. I don't know why it makes it better...if you think about it it really should make it worse if anything, but it does. Just jam your hand in that ground turkey and think "these are his braaaaaains!"
Another tip which my sister would tell you is just don't cook with meat at all.
Your sister does indeed agree on the "no meat at all" philosophy, but then how would you ever get through the book? Same as Spoon's last caveman endeavour... moving onto the next recipe, let it be noted that most likely cavemen didn't have pasta (with the possible exception of Italian cavemen).
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that the consistency of the ground turkey making it indistinguishable from ground beef is the whole idea... after your guests have eaten, you can be like, "that wasn't ground beef... it was TURKEY!! Hahahahaha! Foiled again!!" I do this with my meatless meatballs sometimes, and then people have to admit they couldn't tell the difference and kind of shift uncomfortably in their seat when they realize they just ate a meatless meal and LIKED it.
Re: the Halloween tour: I think this is a good method. I use it all the time.
Hey guys. This meal reminded me of something I saw on Doctor Oz the other day. He said, "you should only eat meat from four-legged animals once a week". It was one of his ten diet commandments. Sounds a bit easier than the caveman/woman diet.
ReplyDeleteI'd be WAY more willing to eat turkey meatballs if they didn't taste like ground turkey! I'm totally going to try this one!
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