How do you like to prepare meatballs at home?
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| April 21, 2010
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Featured Recipe: Basic Meatballs
Until we started experimenting a few years ago, we never realized how easy meatballs are to make, going together with just 15 minutes of prep. Homemade meatballs are a blank slate – the basic “batter” could be tweaked and herbed and spiced to showcase a host of different flavors.
And who’s to say you couldn’t use ground turkey or ground chicken in place of the beef. (Our only advice there is to make sure the flavor add-ins are assertive!)
To make shaping the meatballs even easier, use a cookie dough scoop (like an ice cream scoop only with a smaller bowl). This handy gadget is sold at department stores, cooking shops and even in some supermarkets for about $2.
We’re always interested in comparing notes on what people put into their meatballs. How do you make yours and where did you get the recipe?
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From Beverly Mills - April 21, 2010
Meatball subs! Sounds like a winner to me!
From Alicia Ross - April 22, 2010
Ellen - please share your freezing instructions. Thanks!
From Ellen - April 22, 2010
I freeze them after they are cooked. I let them cool, then place on a tray or cookie sheet and pop that into the freezer for a few hours or overnight. Once they have frozen, I just put them in a zipper freezer bag. Since they are not stuck together, it makes them easy to pull out just as many as needed.
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March 12, 2010
There’s nothing ordinary about homemade meatballs, and they’re the ultimate comfort food. They’re much cheaper to make yourself as well -- $1.56 per pound as opposed to $3.50 per pound frozen in bags from the store.
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From Ellen - April 21, 2010
My Italian ex-MIL taught me to make them with ground pork and ground beef, mixed with some Italian herbs and Parmesan cheese along with the usual breadcrumbs and egg. I like to bake up a batch and then flash freeze them so I can pull out a few a time for a quick meatball sandwich dinner, which is what we had last night for dinner in fact!