Meatballs

Author: Mary Jo via Kelly the Kitchen Kop

1 pound ground beef – Find a healthy source for safe meat.
1 pound ground pork, I didn’t have this the other day so I just used all ground beef.
1 cup bread crumbs or use almond flour if you're eating grain-free
1/4 cup milk or broth if you're eating dairy-free
1 1/2 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 egg or 2 egg yolks
1/2 onion, chopped small (or 1 Tablespoon dried onion)
1 teaspoon sea salt

Mix everything together well. Use a small spoon or scooper to drop them into a pan with hot bacon grease (or ghee or coconut oil) and brown on all sides. These are kind of a pain, even with my huge awesome stainless steel electric frying pan, because you have to keep standing there and turning them as each batch cooks. But maaaaaaaan are they good.
Mary Jo then puts them into a 9×13 pan in the oven with a little beef stock and foil over the top so they stay warm while you work on the rest of the recipe. However I didn't do that because I knew that for the meatball sub casserole recipe they’d be baking in the oven and getting hot again.
***Tiffany in the comments just had a great idea: bake these in the oven or under the broiler so you don't have to stand over them as they cook and it will be easier! I tried it and it IS so much easier, I didn't brown them first either and they were so good! If you use the broiler, just keep an eye on them and turn as needed to brown on all sides and make sure they don't burn.

***Also, here's a recipe for grain-free meatballs (not even almond flour), in case you need one.