meatballs of fire

After a great, unhealthy weekend in New York City, I had a craving for something comforting. Covering something in tomato sauce is often where my comfort lacking brain heads, so off I went to the store in a quest to procure MEATBALL ingredients.

I really like making meatballs as I've found they are ridiculously EASY to make, and much better than frozen ones (and I don't want to die after eating). Here's the quick list of what you need

- 1 pound ground beef. Go with something like 85/15 or 80/20 fat content. Reward yourself. This is comfort meatball day. You want juicy meatballs.
- 1 Jar of your favorite tomato sauce.
- 1 package of your favorite pasta.
- 1/2 red onion
- 1 egg
- some old bread or breadcrumbs. Or buy bread, and chop up a couple pieces.
- 1 bunch parsely. This adds some of that italian flavor you know, and makes you feel good seeing something that resembles a salad in your meatball.
- parmesan or romano cheese
- crushed red pepper if you like em hot
- Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder

Mix all of this in a large bowl. Or a little bowl if you want to lose half your meatballs. Use your judgement on the amount of cheese, you can always start mixing and then add more. They should look something like this.

 

Smush that meat mixture together into your desired ball size. Big or small is ok, just try to make sure they are uniform in size. This will help them all cook evenly. 

When you actually cook the meatballs, the easiest way is to pan fry them to brown the sides, and then finish in an oven at 350. Take the meatballs out, throw em in the sauce, mix together with the cooked pasta, and boom, you are done. Comforting, juicy meatballs, covered in sweet tomato perfection.