Spaghetti And Meatballs

Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorite dishes. I love pasta, I love tomato sauce, I love meatballs. It was my dad's favorite dish and he was the best at it; he would make a giant batch of sauce with meatballs and then mom would jar it all and we'd have a cupboard full of sauce that would last us not as long as you would think
I like it the best with loads of grated cheddar cheese on top.

OK so meatballs, I put some beef in here, some ground up dried peppers, some chopped up dried tomatoes, some black pepper, and some dried pepper seeds (hot!). I usually fry them up, and while I have it, flambéing them in a bunch of spicy vodka is fun.
When they're almost done, I fry up some minced garlic, onion, carrot et al. in a pot, then add canned sauce plus the meatballs to that. The meatballs don't need to be fully cooked inside, because they're about to simmer in that pot for an hour while the flavours mingle around there and meet each other.

whoops nearly forgot to take a picture

oh no ground beef                                                     look how happy they are in there!

OK once that's all simmered nice-like, boil up pasta, grate cheddar cheese (always grate too much cheese, you will snack, yes you will), then combine!
Some people like to pour sauce on the plate with the pasta. I think that sucks, I like to mix things together first then serve so you don't have to mix it up on your plate (which always results in me making a mess). It is best to have spaghetti bowls because then you can mix your sauce on your plate without making a mess but I do not have spaghetti bowls.



man I love spaghetti