Today, Seltzer, Devin and I decided to do a grill and chill sesh today at my casa. Seltzer suggested we make some meatballs, so he and I got after it. We quartered a white onion, crushed 3 cloves of garlic and diced up two jalapenos then tossed them all into the food processor. After it was a good consistency we combined it with around 2 lbs of ground beef, about one and a half teaspoons ground cumin, about the same amount of ground colliander seed, soy sauce, brown sugar and one egg. Then it was on to actually make/roll the meatballs.

While we were busy making the meatballs, Devin got the coals in the grill going and cooked up a cube steak and some RedNeck Prairie Fires (which are awesome jalapeno, cheese sausages) for a little appetizer. Add some white rice with the meatballs and we had one hell of a feast! Since we didn't eat until about 3pm, we were all hungry and it was definitely worth the wait.

The meatballs turned out pretty good, but it was a learning experience. Next time I think they will come out better because there are a few things we want to try differently. Some didn't stay together very well. I think we used to much mixture and not enough "glue"; meaning we only used one egg and for the quantity we were making, one and a half to two eggs would have been better then one. Since we weren't using exact measurements, it might take a few times to perfect, but I think it has some real potential. One other thing we want to change is the amount of jalapenos used. For this attempt we only used two, although next time for the same quantity I would probably use four. All in all though, it was a great grill and chill sesh!