I just made ten pounds of meatballs! Ask me anything!

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[Raven]

1. Recipe? I'd love your recipe and wondering if your freeze them and

for how long. :-)

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10. Well, what I did was pretty rudimentary. I grabbed ten lbs of 90% lean ground beef

and divided it into about 6 parts

Then into each of the six parts I worked a bunch of one single spice: this part, only basil; that part, only oregano; another part, only minced garlic; another part, only minced onion; and so on. That's so they won't all taste the same

Then I handrolled each part into thumbjoint-sized (3/4 inch) meatballs and layered them loosely into a big pressure cooker, so steam could circulate freely. Actually had to pressure cook the first three parts; take the meatballs out; then pressure cook the next three parts

Pull the meatballs out of the pressure cooker, drain, and refrigerate. They're holding their shape well

I got about a half gallon of drainage that I refrigerated and then later removed the hard grease from the top. The rest jellied like aspic: it's gonna get diced onion, bell-pepper, and leaf celery simmered in it; then I'll add a few gallons of canned crushed tomato, bayleaf and maybe some sage or time. The meatballs are gonna get slightly broken (halves or thirds or quarters) and added to the sauce, to get a slightly chunky meat sauce with meat bits that don't have an entirely uniform flavor

Get's served Sunday

[Denninmi]

2. Why?

Party, just to freeze ahead, great sale on ground meat, just bored?

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11. my church serves the local community kitchen dinner sunday

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Just one, please.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0qPwn4U8Y
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[Ptah]

5. I Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFKifpMtlNs

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Mama mia!!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k&feature=related
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[Ptah]

8. OK, let's break for lunch!

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

12. hey! she's cute!

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. I was thinking the same thing while watching it.. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

23. And that's why, to this day, you won't see Teller do a meatball trick.

He didn't want to rip off his Dad's shtick.

[MiddleFingerMom]

24. For the first second or two... I thought it was Harpo. n/t

[struggle4progress]

25. Yeah, I thought it was Harpo. Then I thought it was Stan Laurel. Then I realized I didn't know

[KamaAina]

4. How are all the poor meat men doing?

:cry:

[struggle4progress]

13. Dunno. I never really hear from them. I guess they still pretty much think I suck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9fPe0OalyI

[Swede]

6. Was Deckard a replicant?

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

15. I'm afraid you'll just have to ask Schrodinger's cat

[Swede]

22. I'll get the pasta.

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. that's not slang for anything is it?

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16. Sorry, I wouldn't know: I don't follow Jersey Shore

[WillParkinson]

14. When someone told you to get a set...

I'm not sure that's what they meant.

[struggle4progress]

17. Oh, okay: do you think maybe they were telling me to get an erector set?

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I just gained ten pounds from eating meatballs! Ask me anything!

(I'd LOL but really, that's just sad.. and too much like my real life!)

[struggle4progress]

20. Where are my meatballs?

They were here a minute ago ...

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Teehee!

[alphafemale]

26. I do that between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I have a get together for friends, usually in the first or second weekend of December, and make a huge amount of spaghetti and meatballs. I but a good amount of parmesan cheese in mine.

Much more time consuming than a meat sauce, but worth the effort when you see peoples eyes roll back in their head on that first bite.

:hi:

[struggle4progress]

27. that sounds delicious!

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28. Got the bellpepper and celery and greenonion simmerin in the beef broth now

gettin ready to make sauce

[LeftishBrit]

29. Mmmmm, can I have some?

Though they'd probably be less good after a journey from North Carolina to England!

[struggle4progress]

35. just get to the community kitchen before the line closes @6:30

[kentauros]

30. Were they Swedish?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLkxSSvegc

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36. i think they might be norwegian: they seem to be pinin for the fjords

[undeterred]

31. Are they vegetarian?

[struggle4progress]

37. dunno. i haven't offered them anything to eat

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[Kaleva]

32. Will tomorrow's bowel movement be biblical?

[rrneck]

33. When's spaghetti madness?

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34. Gonna serve around 5PM

[rrneck]

39. I'll drop in.

I'll try not to come in too hot. Or too boozy.

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40. Heated 2 gallons crushed tomato, added the broken-up meat balls and cooked veggies

Been simmerin a couple of hours

Gettin ready to walk out the door

Ran out of room in the pot so I've got about a gallon and a half of thick (strained) beef broth left over -- not sure what I'm gonna do with it