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thenewgreen  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: One of the best meals I have ever made: Vegetarian Meatballs.

No offense taken. That is a valid point and I'd be ashamed to admit that I used a store bought sauce... but the thing is, I like that sauce. A lot. I use Whole Foods brand 3 cheese marinara. I add garlic, whole tomato chunks and some shallots to it. I sauté the garlic and shallots in butter first, browning them and then add some red wine and then... in an act of complete laziness add in the store bought sauce.

Still, it was damn good. I'm definitely interested in making humanodon's sauce though. Hell, we should have a Hubski pasta night sometime and compare notes.

Check out those vegie meatballs though, they're seriously good. Also, steve they no longer taste like mushrooms but rather like the culmination of the spices used. The mushrooms make it meaty though and provide a fantastic texture to carry the flavor. Really quite good.





humanodon  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For me, "mom's spaghetti" means tomato and basil Prego with some frozen meatballs thrown in and some spices and maybe a tomato thrown in. Still good and still homey, but I don't make it for myself.

Anyway, pasta is a comfort food. I don't think you should be ashamed. It's like our exchange before when we were talking about liking nacho cheez. It's all about context. Heck, I've seen more than one chef friend eat a Kraft singles grilled cheese on Wonderbread with Campbell's tomato soup and enjoy the shit out of it just as much as they would the gourmet versions, but for different reasons.

kleinbl00  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't found any spaghetti sauce I don't like. That said, it seems like bad karma to blow that much effort on the meatballs and then dump a jar of something on them.

I've got a family recipe for meatballs that came out of a vintage '60's Betty Crocker cookbook that, supposedly, was created by Marlon Brando. It's got three kinds of meat but it only takes an hour or two.