All covered with sauce....In our house, if I ask the kids "what should we have for supper?" I hear a chorus from five years of age and under, of "SPAGHETTI!" It is a quick meal, and during the week, they win a couple times a month. Sometimes I like to surprise them with a diversion from plain old meat sauce to meatballs. A little more putsy, but worth it in the end. A couple pounds of ground beef, 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning, 2 eggs and salt and pepper to taste. Shazam, you've got meatballs! Brown them nice and dark, turning as you go, you don't have to cook them all they way through, that will happen when they are bathing in the hot tub of sauce. Add a can of mushrooms with liquid to deglaze all the yummy bits off the bottom of the pan, some chopped raw onion, sicilian seasoning, dried roasted garlic and after a bit, add your sauce. I can my own sauce, so I use that, but anything in a jar will be fine too. Let that simmer and thicken a bit and then hold onto your hats because it's going to be yummy and your kids with think you are the best. Serve over pasta with a generous dusting of parmesan cheese, a pretty salad and some crusty bread and you've got yourself a meal. I have a trick I use for fresh, crusty scrumptious bread-that you bake from scratch, but tomorrow is another day....for now I am off to conquer Old Smoky, one delicious meatball at a time.
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