I missed last week due to holiday craziness, so I told myself I'd have to for sure make an entry this week. This one actually goes back to a chat me and @thebigsweed were having...I told him about feasting on my mother-in-laws homemade Swedish meatballs, but I ate them so fast I didn't have time to document it. He replied with something along the lines of "I'm sure you're not the only one whose done that!" And I bet he's right!
But not this time! @intothewild's first attempt at homemade Norwegian meatballs. Lol, ok, the recipe I went off of was definitely for Swedish meatballs, but seeing as I am Norwegian, I'm just gonna call 'em Norwegian meatballs. Only someone from Sweden would call me out, not sure if any are hanging around these parts of the interwebs or not though, time will tell ;)
So let's get to it!!!
I went with 1lb hamburger and 1/2lb pork.
The set up:
First things first, gotta sautee up them onions!!
Let em' cool and add em to your meat with all the spices.
Mix it all up, by hand! That's the fun part!
You have to roll them into little balls anyway, so might as well make it fun.
Get olive oil heated up on the cast iron skillet and place those babies on there and listen for that sizzle...Yes!!! THAT sizzle....music to my ears.
The goal is to just brown them enough and leave some pink in the middle, cause these babies are gonna take a bath in the ultimate of goodness.
Perfect!
Now the bath, in this case, it's a gravy with heavy cream, left over beef and pork fat, a little flour, and then beef stock. All added slowly and then whisked and brought to a simmer.
TIME TO GO SWIMMIN' BOYS!!!!
Finally give it the ole spoon test, and it looks like perfection to me!!
No complains comin' from me or momma bear, although she said they weren't as good as her moms...but she's clearly biased, so I'll let it slide.
Happy Friday y'all! Dig in!