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| Here is where you start making each meatball. See on the right there? You have to squeeze the meatballs real tight. My Uncle Johnny says, "You have to squeeze them real tight, this is important!". |
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| Then you roll them around in your hands to get a nice ball shape. |
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| Keep rolling, this can take a while. Don't be in a rush, good Italian food takes patience and love, lots of love!. Plus, you're listening to that wonderful Italian music, right? |
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| When you finish rolling the meatball place it on a plate and make some more. Keep doing this until you have a plate full of meatballs ready to brown. About half way through making the meatballs you need to get a frying pan ready, preferably a non-stick frying pan. Turn up the heat and get the pan real hot. Put your burner on high! You want this pan very hot! During the meatball browning process there will be lots of grease and smoke! You will probably fill your kitchen with smoke, but the house will really start smelling good at this point :-) |
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| When you start browning the meatballs, you will want to have two nice wooden spoons. You will need to roll the balls around while they are browning. |
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| Don't let the balls stay in one position for too long. Just keep on rolling them around, I call this the "Oh, so important, Meatball Dance." |
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"...roll, roll, roll the meatballs...."
Come-on, sing with me! |
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"...roll roll roll the meatballs...."
Come-on, sing with me! "La La La..
roll, roll, roll the meatballs!" |
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| Look! They are nice and brown and all the juices are sealed tight inside the meatball, now they are ready to drop into the sauce. |
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| Plop! Into the sauce they go... Now from this point on it is VERY important to keep stirring the sauce. But remember now you have precious meatballs in the sauce so stir gently! |
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| Well, this is it! You've done it! You've worked hard all day to make this, and here it is, a nice plate of spaghetti sauce and meatballs, yum! Yes, I know this photo is missing braciole and garlic bread, but I did not make the whole shabang when I snapped this shot. Maybe next time. |
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Take me back to the previous photos in the meatball making process,
I think I missed something <<< |
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