Moose meatballs and autumn weather
I bought some minced moose meat earlier this week, and I've been putting off cooking it for a few days. Since I woke up with a headache from hell and spent the morning in bed with a towel over my head, I didn't think I'd be up to making meatballs tonight. But after a invigorating short bike ride in the rain and tea at my sister's I felt much better. So moose meatballs was made. I really improvised a lot with the original recipe, since I e.g. didn't have any juniper berries to spice with. Instead I used quite a lot of the Graham's Six Grapes Port I had left, not that good to drink but SO nice to cook with. I used almost half/half of minced moose and minced pork, otherwise the meatballs get rather dry. Mixed the meat with some milk-soaked oats, cream and eggs, and then started rolling. Ended up with 60 meatballs, so my freezer will be happy for a while. And they were SO good, really different from the usual pork meatballs, perhaps a little wilder?
I miss my grandmother's moose stews, and moose roasts that she used to make when they still had a house up in Dalecarlia and got moose meat from the hunters there during the hunting season. I haven't had a real moose roast i probably almost twenty years now. I don't know enough hunters!
I miss my grandmother's moose stews, and moose roasts that she used to make when they still had a house up in Dalecarlia and got moose meat from the hunters there during the hunting season. I haven't had a real moose roast i probably almost twenty years now. I don't know enough hunters!