Thai Meatballs, Fried Rice & Spicy Sauce for Dipping.

You can find the original recipe here. I adapted mine as follows:

I decided mine would be a dinner instead of cocktail size so I made 18 meatballs. 

For the Meatballs:

one lb. ground turkey

one TBSP sesame oil

one cup Panko bread crumbs

Fresh ginger about one TBSP (I used my micro plane so it was really fine and just scrapped into the mixture)

one egg

two scallions

one jalapeno pepper

two cloves of garlic finely chopped

salt

pepper

one TBSP chili garlic sauce

Mix all ingredients together and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

For the sauce:

1/2 cup water

1/2 rice vinegar

3/4 sugar

about one TSP each of garlic and fresh ginger ( I used the micro plane and scrapped in)

one TSP ketchup

pinch of dried chili flakes

two TSP cornstarch

Boil water and vinegar, add sugar and other ingredients boil for about five minutes, should be nice and thick. If your cornstarch doesn't dissolve completely just strain.

Let cool and serve with rice and meatballs.

For fried rice:

two cups cooked rice (I used minute rice)

two carrots chopped small

handful of frozen peas

half of an onion

three cloves of garlic chopped

two eggs

sesame oil

soy sauce

Saute onion & carrot in sesame oil until soft, add garlic, then peas, scramble the eggs, add rice and soy until hot and combined.

Since I'm stuck at home I've been reading up on my Food Photography. It combines two things I love!

My dream job would be a little of both!

Today I tried out a few of the tips I came across. Lighting during the Winter months presents a real challenge here so I was happy to learn some new things I can do to improve my photos.

Oh, and Picmonkey is fun, easy to add all those pretty captions you see on Pinterest!

Have a wonderful week.

Susan