January 5th, 2010

one.easy.pork.meatballs.recipe

It has been so long, may be too long that I have not written here. I have been busy with two strategic project in a row, then always living in transit without internet connection, trying to find a place here in Bali (we plan to live here for about one or two years) it has not been an easy thing. We might have found a place now…still not confirmed…but we’ll see.

Although we are always in ‘transit’ me and marco always try to keep our habit of eating good and simple food. Yes, we have been eating out alot, which we don’t usually do but food in Bali is good and fresh, it is abit too spicy for my taste but I will get used to it :) Anyway, back to our eating habit, we usually eat simple pasta for lunch and small portion of meat (for marco) or fish and vegetable at night, or we eat big and complete salad for lunch and simple and light pasta for the night.

This might be very simple, but I just want to share it with you.

I cooked this yesterday, just because when I was at papaya with my cousin M and I saw a good and fresh looking ground pork so I got 250 gram,  mixed it with one egg and two handfuls of panko (the Japanese breadcrumbs) seasoned it simply with one garlic, freshly chopped parsley and sea salt and pepper and tiny tiny bit of dried chili, mix everything well, shaped it into 12 ping-pong size balls, then fried them with a knob of butter on medium heat for 10 minutes until brown on all sides. Marco said they were good and very light (I guess the panko gives the lightness. I did not do it on purpose, I was about to do the classic milk+bread mixture when I realised I did not have both and only had panko :P). He had them warm and cold for the day after, and both delicious! (If you don’t eat pork, you can replace it with beef)

I served them with a small portion of simple salad (lemon cucumber, romana lettuce, tomato and capers, dressed with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil). I don’t eat meat, so I had the salad with boiled kampung eggs (I have told you kampung eggs in Indonesia taste greatttttt, right?)

We finished quite everything :) then a cup of coffee from the cute little moka that Mrs. F gave us as Christmast present. Life is just simply beautiful. Buona giornata tutti! xx

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