Brian and Jim Eat

2020 is a year of pivots and turns.

Today i planned a meal of meatballs made with my meatless loaf recipe, caraway sauerkraut and “picnic tomatoes” from bon appetit with a nice Riesling

I got this:

It was perfectly good…but not what i planned.

The nut loaf recipe lives in my head but i chose to modify and add garbanzos (because i read too many recipes this am)….after i made it, it was too moist for meatballs even after chilling

Its mushrooms, gf bread crumbs, egg, onion, walnuts, spice and added garbanzo.

So i pivoted and shaped it to be sausages and rolled in foul to cook

Im still waiting for it to firm up…i usually make this a ms a loaf so its open for moisture to evaporate and it cook it long and low….so how did i end up with meatballs?

Lightlife burger in my fridge mixed with some cheese, egg, spice and shaped into balls went i to the counter oven for ten minutes and dinner is saved and they were yum!

Why does my kraut not look like a classic caraway kraut? Someone left the package open on my caraway kraut so it went to the trash.

The tomatoes….good idea! The tomatoes werent the best after i made my first farmers market visit in cv19 era…these will be phenomenal with a good ripe tomato!!