Happy Solstice!

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Here are some pics of the meatballs

This is a before cooking pic

Pre cook close-up. The main one in the pic has a little face.

Here's an after of the same meatballs

The panko breaded meatballs had a light color and we have now renamed our Solstice meal "Spaghetti and Snowballs."

I'm curious. What is the significance of spaghetti and meatballs on Solstice day? I may be missing something easy. Yes, recipe, please.

 

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I'm curious. What is the significance of spaghetti and meatballs on Solstice day? I may be missing something easy. Yes, recipe, please.

It's just a joke really. It's a reference to Pastafarianism. I am not one but the meal was just something to build our little family tradition on and something we all like.

Recipe is Anne Burrell's Excellent Meatball Recipe and the included Marinara Sauce recipe.

Excellent Meatballs

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This year we used a slightly modified version, still Anne Burrell's recipe. The difference is that instead of adding water to the meatball mix you use chopped dill pickle and use a little more breadcrumb. It was interesting. Oh and I used a little extra pancetta.

Excellent Meatballs

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To that we made the breading from 1C panko, 1/2C Parmesan and 4tsp olive oil.

cook for 15 min at 425F. It was weird because one meatball recipe called for 500F for 15 min and the other called for 350F for 15min. I split the difference. The panko didn't brown as much as I would have liked but the meatballs came out at 172F in the center of the thickest meatball so the meat was done.