Everyone Loves A Ball of Meat

First off, yes I know that our Swedish meatballs have blobs of sour cream on top of them, but I swear, that's what the directions said.

We decided to take the safe road on this one. After all, Mara had barely survived the egg disaster with an intact gastro-intestinal system. So we selected a recipe that we thought might be ok. As it turns out, it was delicious. But seriously, how can you go wrong with meat and carbohydrates. Mara's theory is that there are several recipes in the collection that the good house-wives of the early 70s would clearly recognize and execute well, a 'gimme' if you will to galvanize them for what was to come later.

So we assembled our materials

As it turns out, not ALL of the materials. We forgot the Allspice and the sour cream, and Argie refused to go back to the grocery store.


(Argie had a bad day at work and just couldn't bear facing the traffic and the store again.)










UNTIL......................................

Mara threw the ONLY egg we had unto the floor in a fit of rage. ( She CLAIMS it was an accident.)

Did I mention that she didn't like eggs.









After going back to the store and again assembling everything we needed we started the meat balls.

This dish required both beef and sausage, a good combination any day of the week.













Meatball!!! Meatball!!! Meatball, I love Meatballs!!

I find that singing a happy-tune makes the meatball formation process go a lot easier.

Meatball!!! You are D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!








I forgot a picture of the meatballs cooking in the frying pan. But I'm sure you can use your imagination.






You know what's good with Gravy? More Gravy!

After the meatballs are cooked, we set them aside and used the drippings to make the gravy.






We cooked the egg noodles. Yes, that is a huge blob of butter.

You know what's good with butter? More Butter!








Threw the meat balls back into the gravy and coated them with the gravy.









I know this is a crappy picture of the finished product, but I never claimed to be a professional photographer. Notice the almost identical plating.








TA-DA!!! Look Ma, I finished everything on my plate. Honestly folks, this stuff was DE-LISH! Next week we promise to get back to the crazy recipes...but for now, this was a nice repast. Just you wait till we get to Sandwich Loaf! But we're saving that for a special occasion.