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Italian Turkey Meatballs

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Turkey Meatballs

Made with breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, fresh basil, fresh parsley, milk, ketchup, tomato paste, salt & pepper, eggs, minced garlic cloves, onion, ground dark turkey meat, Italian turkey sausage, and extra-virgin olive oil.

Sauce made with extra-virgin olive oil, smashed garlic cloves, onion, salt & pepper, fresh basil, ground fennel seeds, dried oregano, and crushed tomatoes.

It was a meatball dinner night! And, ohhhhh, how I could taste the fennel and oregano in the sauce mixture.  So spot on.

Chop some fresh basil.
Sautee the onions & garlic with ground fennel & oregano.
Throw in crushed tomatoes.
Roll the meatballs.

I believe a good-sized meatball should be no smaller than the size of a baseball—but if you must go smaller, no smaller than a golf ball.

I imagine these meatballs would be good loaded on top of some spaghetti just the same as straight for dinner by themselves.  The recipe did not call for making a pasta dish, so straight down my pipe they went as is.

Recipe for—Italian Turkey Meatballs

So, if you have nothing else to do today, make some good time meatballs for dinner anyway you like them.

Take-Away Life Lesson:  No need to make tiny-sized meatballs when you can make them the size of a bowling ball from the onset.

Cheeseburger Pie

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Cheeseburger Pie

Made with ground beef, chopped onion, cheddar cheese, eggs, Bisquick, milk, and salt.

My usual purpose for buying a box of Bisquick is to strictly make skillet-sized pancakes.  But this time around I decided to try one of the Bisquick recipes I saw on the box.

I chose this particular one because it not only sounded good, but it looked so simple to make—and it was!  I whipped this sucker up pretty quickly and I was done in no time.

Slice it down the middle for two servings.  The recipe says it serves 6, but I beg to differ.

Dinner is served.

Recipe for—Cheeseburger Pie

So, if you have nothing else to do today, get a box of Bisquick and try making one of the recipes on the box just for grins.  If those recipes don’t tickle your fancy, look up Bisquick recipes online and have at it.

Take-Away Life Lesson:  It’s nice to know cooking dinner can be quick and simple if you want it to be.  No need for that long drawn out process when you’re tired after a long day.

Fogo de Chao

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Fogo de Chao menu

OMG!  Who’d ever thought you could have herds of meat coming at you on sticks all at once?!  I just love this place!

I mean, I already love buffets as it is for the obvious reason that I can eat as much as I want—so, naturally, I was in heaven.

The salad bar is a help-yourself kind of thing, but the side dishes are brought to your table on an ongoing basis by the gaucho chefs.  It’s great.  As soon as you’ve eaten one side item, they automatically bring out another replacement—you don’t have to say anything.  And this goes on the entire time you’re there.  They might as well bring me 3 baskets of warm cheese bread off top because the first basket is devoured within 15 seconds of me sitting down.  For reals!

So if you decide you don’t want anymore side items brought to your table, just make sure you don’t eat the next side plate they bring out.  Because if they see you’ve eaten all your bananas—you’re definitely getting another plate of them!

As for the meats on a stick!  There are at least 15 different types of meat to choose from.  YES!  And all guests have their own personal disc at their table that has a red side and a green side.  Just flip it to the green side when you’re ready for the gaucho chefs to head your way with meat on a stick.

And they won’t stop coming at you until you flip the disc back to the red side.  So be warned.  It’s just constant as long as your disc is on the green side.  I made the mistake of forgetting to flip it back over to the red side and had a plateful of meat.  Woah!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, take a trip to your local Fogo de Chao and have some fun eating yourself into oblivion.

Take-Away Life Lesson:  The only difference between lunch and dinner is the price.  Lunch is always less expensive.  So go during lunch, if you can, for the exact same experience and exact same food.  That’s right.

The gourmet salad bar consists of fresh-cut vegetables, assorted cheeses, cured meats, and Brazilian sides.
 The side dishes that are brought to your table consist of warm cheese bread (my favorite), garlic mashed potatoes, crispy hot polenta, and carmelized bananas.
The meats include–filet mignon, rib eye, top sirloin, bottom sirloin, beef ribs, lamb, chicken, pork ribs, pork loin, and sausage.
Desserts include my favorites of South American Flan and Signature Papaya Cream among other delicious goodness.

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