Spaghetti and Meatballs

Everybody loves meatballs! I think meatballs are a perfect example of Americana and they belong on the American table. This is a classic recipe and very simple to prepare. It calls for three types of meat, but a combination of any two—or even a single meat—will work as well. The recipe makes four dozen meatballs, but you can cut it in half and it will work just as well. The sauce and meatballs freeze well, but are best frozen in smaller quantities so that they reconstitute quickly.
And we enjoy Aperitivo Time with Grandma! Tutti a Tavola a Mangiare!
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Spaghetti and Meatballs

00:00 – Intro
00:11 – Sauce Prep
01:05 – Meatball Prep
05:25 – Aperitivo Time with Grandma!
06:48 – Spaghetti Prep
08:26 – Plating the Pasta

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Spaghetti car who doesn’t love spaghetti meatballs here is one rendition of it and it’s a simple straightforward and delicious first we start with the sauce you get yourself a nice brazing pan nice and thick so that this way you know you can let the sauce simmer onions lots of onions okay some bay

Leaves a little bit of salt and we’ll let that braze away here we have peeled Tomatoes you know I like my san marsano peeled Tomatoes then you can mash them with your hands crush them or you can pass them to a food mill and that makes for a better sauce let’s add the

Tomatoes I think I would like to put some peperoncino in there make it zesty some salt and and we let it simmer away and make the meatballs so in making meatballs I think combinations of meat is the best whether you do beef and pork

You can do beef and ve to bind all of that just whisk an egg that all in here some breadcrumbs chopped garlic Lots of parsley gred Treese so I can begin to mix with the fork but there’s nothing like the hands and I did wash my hands I think so getting in there and really combining everything and you want really everything to to be evenly distributed so let me put a little bit of

Salt little bit more I think that’s enough okay I think that’s a good mix and let’s form the meatballs you take one full scoop just like that and you make that your meatball Certainly the kids love doing this they feel so much part uh you know getting the kids in the kitchen and having them participate I think it’s such an important part of family life of teaching because they learn a lot lot they learn how to work with their hands

They learn how to collaborate they learn about who they are ethnically you know when you cook ethnic food that that’s a profile of who we are and it is so important that we connect That toat the meatballs are done okay the sauce is bubbling away and I’m going to flour them and Fry the meatballs vegetable oil to fry your meat balls so let’s lightly flour while the oil is getting hot and you don’t want it too much Flour okay I think we’re There and you want to give them some space because you do want them to kind of crisp on the surface you don’t have to worry about them cooking them through because they’re going to finish cooking in the sauce well when you fry the meatball like that

With uh a little bit of flour kind of uh ties up the meatball so it doesn’t fall apart on you so here we put just to drain a little bit as you can see certainly they’re not cooked yet but they have that crust and now from here I

Begin putting it right into the sauce just like that and I’m kind of fitting them in all around in the sauce gently stir so they Nestle all under the sauce so they all get cooked you lower it let it perk just perking away like this slightly and about half

An hour and the meatballs will be done and we’ll be ready for some spaghetti and meatballs sweet meats bitter in one of the most popular operatives in Italy no one Wonder it’s making a comeback don’t forget the orange garnish Chin Chin Sal chinitz let’s drink absolutely you like it see you like

Orange and this is you know I like give the color when you were young did you go out with your girlfriends but I come from very very serious family the mother and father very strong I never left my city until I got married when I got married for the first time my husband

Said to me we are going in Rome and we want to be blessed by the pop and we went but we didn’t reach home so fast we sto in Venice was beautiful I enjoy every moment he bought three beautiful pair of shoes one than the other I never forgot

That and I love him for that and for so many other things he was a good father and a good husband too so I will toast to a happy marriage to you and Grandpa uh for being my parents ah la Pasta Italian saying throw the pasta in the water so the husband

Was working in the field not too far the wife was in the kitchen and so so she wanted everybody to come to eat and she would go out of the house she says b la Pasta that means we are ready to eat now the sauce and the meatball mhm

That looks really good so let me get some of the sauce We’ll add the meatballs at the end quite beautiful and dense okay put it very low and let it bubble while the pasta Cooks so I’m looking at it and you know I know more or less that

It is at the point that I wanted because of the color and I’m not concerned about the water because I do want a little bit of water so it’s alente I am finishing cooking it right in here and you see I can tell that the pasta is alent because it’s kind of

Moving it has life to it you see the sauce is all being taken by the pasta I’m going to shut the Heat and put some cheese you put the cheese after you have finished cooking the pasta because cooking it’s a chemical reaction you’re changing things you want this

Milky delicious flavor of the cheese so here we are this looks just the way I like it so to Plate the pasta take a nice Mount and you kind of go in the middle of the plate and you pile up on top turning the plate and just a little bit

Of sauce on top like that I would say one two meatballs that’s enough sauce the meatballs and you know basil and pasta over is is fantastic together so let’s see maybe here so let me continue with my plate of pasta Okay and a bases and I’m going to just pull up what we think a mouthful would do and then we go back and we twist and we twist and we twist and voila and then we put it in our mouth just like this delicios the pasta is just

Perfectly the sauce delicious now let me try the meatballs really good simple not that complicated so here you have it the Italian American spaghetti and meatball which as an Italian I love