Miracle Meatballs
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 slice day-old bread, crust removed
- 1⁄4 cup dry sherry
- 3 tablespoons light cream
- 1 lb lean beef sirloin
- 1⁄2 lb smoked ham
- 1⁄4 cup chopped toasted almond
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
directions
- Place bread in a small bowl and pour wine and cream over the bread and crumble it as the liquid is absorbed; pulse the beef, ham, almonds and parsley in a food processor; remove to a bowl.
- Add the cheese, salt, pepper and oregano to the meat; beat eggs and pour over all; mix all lightly with 2 forks until thoroughly combined.
- Refrigerate covered for 1/2 hour; form tiny meat balls; heat butter and oil in a skillet and brown meatballs slowly on all sides; cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Serve hot as hors d'oeuvres or use in another recipe.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.