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do your meatballs fall apart? (recipe: turkey & sausage meatballs)

do your meatballs fall apart? (recipe: turkey & sausage meatballs)

They fall apart because you don’t beat them. I am not kidding. When you make sausage or meatballs—even meatloaf—you want to develop the myosin in the meat. It doesn’t take much ‘beating,’ but just a few minutes of stirring-with-intention will make a big difference in the texture of your ground meat. As the meat develops, it gets a little sticky. Then they hold their form and tend not to… [more]

To pork. To pork!

To pork. To pork!

I had one of those moments where I was frantically searching the top of the dinner table for anything to sop up the sauce from my creamy honey dijon garlic thyme pork… but no bread, so I had to settle for spooning the excess sauce onto new potatoes and edamame. At least it was mannered; my other option was to slurp.
There is a reason pork is a noun… [more]