Clara's Meatballs (Whole30, Paleo) Ingredients: 1lb ground lean beef 1lb ground lean turkey 3/4 cup onions, finely diced 2 large eggs 3 tsp Coconut Aminos (optional, alternatives listed below) 1/2 to 1 TBSP garlic powder (based on preference) Olive oil Salt & black pepper Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 400F. 2. Heat olive oil on medium heat in pan, and cook onions until silvery. 3. Set pan aside to cool. Beat eggs in large bowl. 4. Add beef and turkey to bowl. Mix well. 5. Add Coconut Aminos, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper to bowl. Mix well. 6. Form meatballs that are of a diameter of 1.5 to 1.75 inches, forming somewhere between 25-28 meatballs (I just use my hands, but you can use a large ice cream scoop or spoon if you wish). Place on ungreased cookie sheet. 7. Bake meatballs for 20-23 minutes. Tips: - Mix with marinara or your other preferred favorite tomato sauce! While the meatballs are baking, I like cooking a mixture of sliced bell peppers, zucchini, onions, crushed red pepper, and Aldi's Simply Nature Organic Marinara Sauce. When the meatballs are done a slightly cooled, I add them to the mixture. Delicious! - If you're not following the Whole30 nutrition plan, instead of Coconut Aminos you can use Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce. You can also leave it out altogether and the meatballs would still taste great; really the onion is the dominant flavor of the meatballs! Enjoy! Clara Slate
This week's Clara's Coffee Chat is a commentary on Fear the Walking Dead, S1E4. What did you think of this episode? We only have 2 EPISODES left in SEASON 1 !!! MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!! See video here: http://bit.ly/1iK4by4 #TWD #FTWD #FeartheWalkingDead #TheWalkingDead #zombies #apocalypse #claraslate #amctv
Like Fear the Walking Dead? I have a midseason commentary for you! CLICK above or see this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhp0CJc-ai8 Here I discuss the Monopoly game, the hospital, the airplane, and multiple character analyses, including about Salazar. What do you think of the show so far? In case you missed it, I did a commentary on The Walking Dead Season 5 finale! CLICK below or see this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eChAV...
Oh my....how did this happen? I told myself over and over again that blogging will NOT happen. The amount of time and effort that goes into my YouTube channel is enough already! But yes, here it is. I keep hearing the first few words of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in my head... "IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? IS THIS JUST FANTASY?"... Well, I'm thinking that blog is going to be closer to my "real life." While I LOVE making videos for my YouTube channel, it doesn't allow me the freedom to be myself 100%...not that a blog could really do that either, but at least I don't feel so restricted as to keep my thoughts and words under an "X" amount of minutes. Making short, compressed videos, while fun (and much more rewarding than I had anticipated because it brought me to YOU!!!) is not "THE REAL LIFE"...no, how can it be? And yes, I could do vlogging, and even make videos up to an hour long just talking about my thoughts, but I don't know if I'm ready to do something like that. SO, where do the remnants of my daily thoughts end up? Probably here. Will it last? Time will tell, I guess. WELCOME to the REAL CLARA SLATE....hopefully you weren't brought here simply because you were looking for Dollar Tree stuff, because there is definitely going to be some non-Dollar Tree topics here. If you ARE only interested in Dollar Tree stuff, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, at https://www.youtube.com/user/claraslate ! If you prefer to ignore this blog completely, believe me, I totally get it. I'm not hilarious, I'm not a supermodel, and I'm not a wonder woman with an immaculate house and Pinterest-worthy decorations. So, hopefully what brought you here is merely a wish to get to know me better and discuss some things...whether you are a long time friend or family member, a new friend, or a new subbie to my YouTube channel! I'd love to hear your thoughts...but anything nonconstructive or disrespectful will probably end up in the trash, just fyi :) Love + light, Clara Slate
