A Singaporean In Australia

"Delicious meatballs!" - Jenny Chiang, food critic.

These balls aren't bad.  In fact, they can be real good, if you do them right.

Ingredients:

250g minced pork

250g minced beef

2 big potatoes

breadcrumbs

rosemary (herbs)

salt

pepper

That should be all.  First, boil the potatoes till they are soft enough to be mashed up.  Then mash them up.  Add salt and pepper to the mashed potatoes and taste it.  If it taste nice, you're done for this part.

Next, mix the minced pork and beef in a large bowl.  Sprinkle a pinch of rosemary and enough breadcrumbs just to cover the surface of the meat.  I did not add anymore seasonings to the minced meat.  So shouldn't you  unless you like over-powering yucky meatballs.  Add all the mashed potatoes into the minced meat and mix them with your hands thoroughly.

Mix thoroughly.

And mix thoroughly again.

You're done.  Now make the meatballs into any shape and size you desire.

Fry them up.  I used a very small pot and could only do 4 balls at once.  That'll cut down oil usage as well as keep the mess down since I am not exactly a fan of after-cook washing.

You don't really need a sauce for these nice meatballs.  The reason I had sauce on them in the picture is that I had some leftover stew the previous night and I turned it into sauce. Haha.

I am in the middle of the biggest transition in my life.  I am currently jobless in Singapore, will be moving to Perth, Australia on 17 September 2011.  My wife is 5 months pregnant and we did not secure any jobs in Perth prior to moving.  

Our decision was bound to raise some eyebrows and indeed it did.  Friends, ex-colleagues, ex-bosses, relatives and family were in disbelief but the decision had been made and we were moving on. 

I thought it would be good for me to record my experience. Perhaps one day it will be a good source of information of other Singaporeans who may be walking a similar path.  Meanwhile, it will serve as a database for a klutz with short memory.