Meatballs

Meatballs
1 lbs Meat (use 80% lean)
1 tsp salt
1 slices bread (diced) (or 1/2 cup breadcrumbs)
1 eggs
"Healthy Dollop" of ricotta cheese
1 slices of pepper jack cheese (chopped to half inch squares)
Italian seasoning
(Makes 12 big meatballs)

Mix everything with hand vigorously and quickly until protein starts to stick together but fats don't melt
Make ice cream scoop size meatballs, roll to make round balls
Roast in oven at 425F for 17min

Sauce
1 medium onion
4 large roma tomatoes (instead of tomato paste)
3 cloves garlic
half bag of Trader Joe's Southern greens blend 

Caramalize onion in oil at medium heat.
Add in garlic
Add in diced tomatoes
Add in greens
Simmer till tomatoes break down
Add in salt to season
Served over linguini.

Meatballs were nice and moist, and the pepper jack gives nice pockets of cheese in meatballs. Meatballs were tasty but a little too rich for me, next time I'll add a smaller dollop of ricotta and make smaller balls. Sauce was great.

Butter poached lobster

2 lobster tails
1 tablespoon water
1 stick salted butter, cut into 1 tablespoon chunks
Half a garlic, chopped into fine pieces
2 tomatoes, cut into large chunks
Herbs for seasoning (I used Italian seasoning, can use basil, rosemary, oregano etc)

Bring pot of water + salt to boil. (Gordon Ramsey says to add enough salt to make it like sea water, so the temperature is high enough)
Turn off heat and add lobster. Cover with lid and cook for 4 min, enough to get lobster off the shell.
Cut through the cartilage part of the tail and try to get the meat out in one piece. I still can't figure out the technique for this.

In a sauce pan, bring 1 tablespoon of water to simmer over medium-low heat.
Add in butter, 1 piece at a time, add a new piece when the previous piece has melted. Keep stirring.
Make sure the mixture does not boil, or the sauce will break.
Keeping the heat on medium-low, add the lobster pieces and cook for 5min, turning the lobster every minute. Remove lobster and place in a serving bowl

Turn up the heat a little on the remaining butter, add garlic. When fragrant, add tomatoes and cook for a couple of minutes until the tomatoes have released some of the juices. Add in herbs.
Pour tomatoes and butter sauce over lobster.