Sunday Cooking!!

MeatBalls

Sunday 1st November 2015

First off, Happy First of November!!

Second, on Wednesday I attempted to make some meatballs. I've never thrown ingredients in a bowl and attempted to make meatballs before. I've made them with my Grandma before but never on my own or without a recipe. 

So, I thought I would give it a go.

The reason I was making meatballs was because instead of having spaghetti bolognese (again) I thought I would have an attempt at making meatballs and having spaghetti and meatballs to change it a bit. The only ingredient I really knew I was going to use was mince.

When I was getting the mice out of the fridge I saw the carrots and cheese and thought they would be a great addition to the meatballs. So I grated some up and put it in a bowl. I also remembered that most meatballs have onion and I diced half of one up and put it in. I would have put more in, but I'm not a fan.

Next was an egg to combine it all together and some parsley and mixed herbs.

After getting my hands dirty and making 65 meatballs, I was ready to start cooking.

I cooked a few at a time in several batches before I added the tomato based sauce and some cherry tomatoes. I also cooked some spaghetti noodles and mixed with it when it had heated through.

They actually turned out rather nice, although they did crumble a little when I was browning them off. They may have needed more flavour in the meatballs themselves and the cherry tomatoes probably should have been cooked a bit longer.

But all in all, it's not too bad for a first time. Over the next few months or so I am going to have several more attempts at making meatballs until I get them as perfect as I would like. There will more than likely be a lot of posts on Sunday's to come about meatballs.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and have a great week!!
Bye, Bye!!