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Well, I decided it was time to try to cook a full meal now that my arm is out of the sling. I wanted to do something a bit different. With one arm in a sling, I had lots of web time to look for ideas. Here is what I came up with.
First off, I wanted to make some shrimp and pork meatballs with an Asian flair, but smoked. I remember my wife taking a Chinese cooking class when I was stationed in Hawaii. She made shrimp meatballs that I still remember. I thought I would give it a try.
First off, here are the raw shrimp ready to be thrown into the food processor.
Next is two more of the ingredients to go into the processor—lime zest and chopped green onion.
You can’t make meatballs without some “poke”.
Here’s what it looks like after a whirl through the food processor. The mixture is ready to form the meatballs and then be put into the smoker.
I wanted to do something different when smoking them. My sister gave me a stove top smoker a few years back as a Christmas present. It uses saw dust as its source of smoke. I used a little cherry saw dust and added some apple pellets.
Here are the shrimp meatballs ready to be hit with some smoke.
This is what the stove top smoker looks like on the, wait for it, stove top!
The smoked shrimp meatballs nearing the end of their journey.
The plated shrimp meatballs served with some Thai chili sauce. They were even better than I remembered.
Now that the appetizer is out of the way, it’s time to get the rest of the meal together. Check out part 2.
Art
First off, I wanted to make some shrimp and pork meatballs with an Asian flair, but smoked. I remember my wife taking a Chinese cooking class when I was stationed in Hawaii. She made shrimp meatballs that I still remember. I thought I would give it a try.
First off, here are the raw shrimp ready to be thrown into the food processor.
Next is two more of the ingredients to go into the processor—lime zest and chopped green onion.
You can’t make meatballs without some “poke”.
Here’s what it looks like after a whirl through the food processor. The mixture is ready to form the meatballs and then be put into the smoker.
I wanted to do something different when smoking them. My sister gave me a stove top smoker a few years back as a Christmas present. It uses saw dust as its source of smoke. I used a little cherry saw dust and added some apple pellets.
Here are the shrimp meatballs ready to be hit with some smoke.
This is what the stove top smoker looks like on the, wait for it, stove top!
The smoked shrimp meatballs nearing the end of their journey.
The plated shrimp meatballs served with some Thai chili sauce. They were even better than I remembered.
Now that the appetizer is out of the way, it’s time to get the rest of the meal together. Check out part 2.
Art
