From My Kitchen: Chipotle Orange Meatballs

1 Pound Ground Beef (or Pork, Turkey, Chicken, whatever)

1/4 cup Diced Onion

1 tsp Garlic Powder

Salt (few shakes)

Pepper (few shakes)

1/4 cup Dried Bread Crumbs

1 Egg

1 Bottle Blue Moon Beer

Zest of 1 Large Orange

Juice of that 1 Large Orange (just cut it in half you'll squeeze 1/2 in the sauce and 1/2 on the meat)

1 Bottle BBQ Sauce (My personal choice is Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chipotle)

For Meatballs:

In a bowl combine 1 lb meat, diced onion, Garlic Powder, Salt, Pepper, Bread Crumbs, Egg. Mix WITH YOUR HANDS, using a spoon of any kind for this step is blasphemous and will result in subpar meatballs. True story. Once mixture is all combined, form into golf ball sized meatballs. Put these in a skillet and sear them over med high heat, for a couple of seconds on all sides. Pour bottle of Blue Moon and juice from 1/2 and orange into skillet, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer till desired doneness is achieved.

While meatballs are simmering, prepare BBQ sauce.

For BBQ sauce:

Combine in a bowl BBQ sauce and the zest of the orang and squeeze the juice of the other 1/2 an of the orange into the bowl and mix.

When meatballs are done, drain off juice, top each ball with BBQ sauce and cover to allow BBQ to warm up.

The orange really comes through on this dish and I think pairs very well with the spice of the chipotle, however if you don't want the spice, I speculate that any BBQ sauce will work just fine. The Blue Moon is a good beer to use in the cooking process because it has a lot of citrus/orange characteristics that give the meat a nice flavor in and of itself.