Here it is January 2025 and who can afford to buy steak, chicken or eggs, especially here in California? Our groceries are at an all-time high here in Southern California. Luckily you can create this easy South Indian Curry with simple inexpensive ingredients like ground goat, spices, potatoes and onions.
Our family has taken to having a lot more lamb and goat in our diet, as these proteins are cheaper and less regulated in this state. When a leg of lamb is $6.99 a pound compared to the cheapest steaks are $11.99 a pound, the choice is clear! I truly wonder if we could be looking at a period of time when chicken and beef products could be a thing of the past! With this latest animal pandemic, so many animals are being killed because of this sickness. I mean is the end of days for meat lovers so wild to think about? January 2025, it already feels like we are living in a dystopic Stephen King movie every day! As I type this half of the Los Angeles suburbs are burning to the ground
. And our dumbass president is claiming the fire hydrants don’t work because the electricity was cut! Why do they still allow Old Man Biden to talk live on national TV? Does he not understand that all those hydrants are on well water that is powered by generators? California, can you believe this shit?
What is this world coming to?
Earlier in the year I read a great dystopic novel, where T.C. Boyle shared a window into the future of climate change with Blue Skies. Insects as a meat source, fire storms devasting southern California, does T.C. Boyle have a crystal ball looking into the future of our ruined planet? We as humans are destroying this planet and the sad thing is no one cares. So many people can’t even be bothered to recycle. Here in California, our state looks like a virtual toilet with trash and human feces lining our streets. This once Golden State is just disgusting with human filth.
Here in California, well everything is just so expensive and our groceries are no exception. I just paid sixty dollars at our local market for a four dozen pack of eggs! Were they coated in diamond dust? No, it just so happens that dumb-dumb Californians passed Prop 12 in 2018 and now all egg-producing chickens in California must be free-range. It’s hard enough making a living and paying bills in California, I don’t know what our politicians were thinking all those years ago putting that useless bill on the ballot. Prop 12 is what began our ascent into oh-so-expensive staple groceries here in California. Obviously, the Bird Flu is not helping matters. The eggs I just bought were imported from Illinois. That’s why they are so damn expensive! Isn’t it beyond ridiculous that these farmers have to ship the cheaper product halfway across the country? This idiotic liberal Prop 12 also explains why you can not buy veal in California anymore. I miss you, baby cow meatballs!
Small-town grocer delights
We finally have a Grocery Outlet here in our small town of Big Bear Lake and we are just thrilled! When you live in a small town that does not have a Sprouts, a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe’s, you take what you can get! I’m happy to support family-owned grocery chains like Grocery Outlet. I feel better spending my money here than big corporations like Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. Also, last time I shopped at Trader Joe’s the employee ringing me up stepped on my eggs and bashed my spinach after I went through her line in my MAGA ball cap. When I embrace the political leanings I believe in here in our small town I get a high five from the dude bagging my groceries instead of sneers and damaged veggies.
Everyone has the right in this country to stand behind the candidate they believe in. Do I roll my eyes at the Prius with the Kamala bumper sticker parked next to me at Grocery Outlet? Of course, I do! But luckily i
n this rural mountain town, the number of pickup trucks flying Don’t Tread on Me flags proudly, outnumber the hippies in their Prius’s.
Mutton me crazy
Those hippies would love to be appalled at me for choosing to use goat meat in this delicious South Indian curry. But in the economy that Joe Biden has created in the last four years, the price of goat is at an all-time low and is much cheaper where I live than beef, lamb, or even pork! And with that being said now that the Bird Flu is looking to be the next pandemic, I wonder how long chicken and eggs will be at a low cost? I would not be at all surprised at this point if chicken, eggs and beef becomes in short supply or if the price goes even further through the roof overnight. Thankfully, in our family, we love goat and lamb. I personally will be stocking up on all things chicken and beef when I go to our local grocer tomorrow, while I still can! And when those staples are gone from the freezer, well I guess it’s mutton from there on out!
Kerala Style Goat Meatball Curry
If it’s a cold winter day you may be looking for a hot & spicy dinner like an easy South Indian Curry made with goat balls (Meatballs, that is) Not everyone likes the gamey flavor of goat and lamb, but we love it in our household. You can always add extra turmeric and paprika to tame that gamey flavor.
What makes this delicious spicy curry Kerala style? The whole can of coconut milk added at the end, turns this into a creamy south Indian dish, perfect for a snowy mountain night, hiding out at home away from birds. A nice hot and spicy curry is the perfect meal to enjoy in a snowy mountain cabin on a cold winter’s night.
Goat Meatballs
1-pound ground goat
1/2 red onion, grated, moisture squeezed out
1 teaspoon grated fresh garlic
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 diced green hot chile
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon garam masala
Mix all ingredients with your hands. Form into meatballs the size of golf balls and freeze for 20 minutes so that they hold their shape. Now you are ready to prepare your easy South Indian Curry!
For the easy South Indian Curry
2 white onions, sliced thin
2 red Chinese dried chilies
3 teaspoons of ghee
1 teaspoon grated fresh garlic
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 can of coconut milk
6 medium-sized white waxy potatoes
cilantro for garnish
Greek yogurt to serve.
For the easy South Indian Curry, in the ghee fry your red chiles until almost burnt and set aside. Fry the onion slices in the ghee until very well cooked. This step should take about 15 minutes until they are browned but not burnt. Let your onions cool slightly and then grind them up along with the chiles in a blender or mixie.
The next step to create this easy South Indian Curry is to add the garlic and ginger to your wok. Sprinkle your spices, the on top of the garlic and ginger and the onion puree on top of that and begin to roast those spices. Add water in so the spices do not catch. You want to roast the spices well for at least ten to fifteen minutes, adding more water as you see fit.
The final step is to mix in the coconut milk and add your potatoes and meatballs. At this point, you will want to let this easy South Indian Curry simmer for at least twenty minutes, or until your goat balls and the potatoes are fully cooked.
When we doing keto, we each get two small potatoes with our meal. Then I serve this with a huge dollop of Greek yogurt and a sprinkle of fresh cilantro.
