As soon as someone posts a decent spaghetti sauce recipe I'ma try this. No offense to the meatballs, but if I'm going to get myself involved in an "overnight' recipe it's bloody well not gonna involve Prego. Only other "overnight" recipe I have right now is my thanksgiving stuffing, which is DA BOMB
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.
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.
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.
BAM INSTANT CROWDSOURCING We make it the day before, then stuff. I guess you don't have to do that but Tday is busy 'round my house and I like to chillax as much as possible. GENERAL COOKING PROTIP: Whenever you're feeling experimental, type a couple ingredients into allrecipes.com and make anything rated better than 4.5 stars with more than 500 reviews. If 500 allrecipes tweakers liked it that much, that means it's a bomb-proof recipe and you can modify to your heart's content.