Teriyaki Ginger Turkey Meatballs (Paleo, Keto-friendly!)

Hey y’all. What’s poppin.

I don’t know if it was just an overwhelming need for a “break”, but I’ve had a renewed sense of “why the hell am I ignoring this blog when I love cooking, cook every day anyway, and need to document it”, so I am back.

If you follow me on Instagram, I’ve posted some stories here and there. Back in January, I had some house drama and I kind of fell off the blog wagon. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to be a normal human again, socializing, going out to dinner, seeing friends, and sitting my derriere pool side. I suppose I haven’t made much time to be online, as that’s LITERALLY all I did for the last year…. But I’m back. Vaxxed, waxed, all the sass.

So, what’s so special about today? Well, considering from the fact that I am now a work orphan (my whole team has taken really amazing opportunities elsewhere within the organization, go team!), it made me think about how I need to really cultivate and leverage my skills. Professionally, sure – that’s one thing. However, I love sharing food, woo-woo spiritual stuff, and just my general weird self with you all.

Tonight is the new moon in Gemini – I find this particularly relevant, because my moon (when I was born) is in Gemini. I’m a Libra, my ascendant is in Pisces, everything is duality in my life.

Guess who hates ambiguity, “close calls”, and grey areas? Yeah, it’s me. I hate that shit.

So, back this new moon in Gemini. I treat new moons like a jumping off point into the next energetic window – what renewed feeling do you want to embrace? What do you want to reset? This one in particular though was also a solar eclipse. To put it in laymen’s terms, this window of renewal also removed our illumination temporarily, so eclipses can often feel like a point of total confusion and darkness. What better time to pull the plug and press the reset button when you can’t see shit? Just kidding.

However, I don’t see this window as a time of major action – just reevaluating. I know sometimes people like to do whatever rituals feel right during a new moon – which, by all means, please continue to do what makes your heart sing. However, when something like this happens alongside an eclipse, I think that pressing the reset button just requires a bit more thought and introspection. Let this “period of eclipsed darkness” kind of let your mind go where it needs to go.

A friendly reminder that not only the sun and moon are in Gemini today, but Mercury is also there too. And Mercury is in retrograde… so it’s alright if you’re feeling a little jacked up when trying to take some time to think about what you may want to re-evaluate, reset or renew. When the Sun and Mercury are together in the same sign, typically you get that happy, cheerful confidence around your own thoughts, but the retrograde adds a very real layer of confusion. The moral of the story – be chill during this time, things are really weird.

In other news, I made meatballs. I haven’t given a lot of thought to curating my recipes recently, so here’s a shitty picture of them. They taste good. I promise.