Eating Dinner With My Family

My husband choose this throwback Thursday dish.  I followed the sauce recipe, but the meatballs I played around with a little bit.  Mostly, I just made my life easy by getting the meatloaf package of ground beef/pork rather than get a package of both meats and most likely have odd bits I didn't need for tonight's dinner.  As always, if you don't eat beef or pork, you can switch out the meat for other ones, but the beef & pork combo is traditional and I think the tastiest.  I totally am loving the greens in the meatballs.  I don't know where I first saw this idea (and it was most like spinach that was in the original recipe), but I have used collards and now bok choy with fantastic results.  (my next experiment will involve the leavings from my juicing, but that is for another time:)  I also love coating the meatballs in bread crumbs. This coating absorbs the juices (and fat) cooking out of the meatball and adds a lot of flavor and a nice crisp...

My husband cooked to night, and he said he would do the blog post since the recipe required some tweaking to work.  However his is a busy guy and the post may never get done if I wait;).  The end result was delicious, but the instructions weren't helpful.  The heat they recommended was too high.  In the future, my husband said he would want to finish them in the oven.  I think a lower temp and covering the would work too, but as I wasn't allowed in the kitchen when he was working, I am flying blind here. :)  To go with it he roasted some potatoes and we had our salad.  The meatballs in the picture were cut in half because the recipe left the insides raw and the pan bottom burnt.  We had to clean the bottom (losing those lovely browned bits that should have been there) but luckily we had some beef drippings I had saved from the steak salad and some beef broth to make up for what had burnt and been thrown out. (see saving everything is sometime...