Columbus Day Special Spaghetti And Meatballs Recipes

JENN'S OUT OF THIS WORLD SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, and cook the onion until lightly brown. Mix in 2 cloves garlic, and cook 1 minute. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, water, sugar, 1/2 the oregano, and bay leaf. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer while preparing meatballs.
• In a bowl, mix the ground round, bread crumbs, remaining oregano, remaining garlic, parsley, eggs, and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Roll into 1 inch balls, and drop into the sauce. Cook 40 minutes in the sauce, or until internal temperature of meatballs reaches a minimum of 160 degrees F (72 degrees C).
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil, and stir in the spaghetti. Cook 8 to 10 minutes, until al dente, and drain. Serve the meatballs and sauce over the cooked spaghetti.

MEGAN'S AMAZING SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until onion is tender and translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, red wine, Italian seasoning, sugar, garlic powder, and garlic salt. Season with salt and black pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and continue simmering while preparing meatballs.
• Mix ground beef, egg, bread crumbs, mozzarella cheese, and parsley in a large bowl. Roll walnut-size meatballs and place in the simmering sauce, making sure sauce covers entire meatball. Increase heat to medium and simmering until meatballs are no longer pink in the center, about 40 minutes, turning meatballs once about halfway through.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain.
• Serve meatballs and sauce over spaghetti with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.

ALL DAY SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Mix all meatball ingredients, roll in to balls and brown in skillet. Cool and refrigerate until 1 hour prior to serving. Olive oil may be needed to brown these if using very lean beef.
• In the skillet, add chopped onions and cook until tender but not soft.
• Add garlic and can of tomatoes. If using whole tomatoes, I mash them briefly in the skillet with a potato masher.
• Cook until mixture comes to a boil.
• Put in to a large dutch oven or sauce pan.
• Add remaining ingredients except for baking soda, parmesan cheese, olive oil, salt and pepper.
• Bring to a quick boil and immediately reduce the heat to medium low as this sauce will burn.
• Add a pinch of baking soda, stir well and allow to simmer uncovered for 2 hours.
• Taste the sauce for acidity. If acid level (or tang) is still high, add another pinch of baking soda and stir well. At this point do not taste the sauce as all you will taste is baking soda.
• Cook two more hours.
• Stir occasionally to prevent sticking. If needed, add a small amount of olive oil.
• Eventually, you will start seeing the sauce getting darker around the edges of the pan. At this point you can season with salt and pepper and add the cooked meatballs.
• Cook one additional hour.
• One half hour prior to serving, stir in the parmesan cheese. This will thicken the sauce quickly.
• This sauce is best served the next day.