Spaghetti and Lamb Meatballs

Week One, Sunday

One of the meals I make most often - once or twice is week - is something Roy and I call "chicken spaghetti". It's grilled chicken, whole wheat spaghetti, sauce from a jar, and cut up bell peppers. It's quick, easy, and tastes good. I have a feeling that I'm going to use this as a template, and tweak it as I get new ingredients from Fair Shares. One week might be fresh pasta, another might be homemade tomato sauce or different veggies.

Tonight was substituting lamb meatballs for the chicken. I could only think of three basic meals using ground meat - hamburgers, meatballs, and meatloaf. I've only made hamburgers before. I've already used the lamb for that a couple days ago.

I told Roy this earlier, that I don't think I've ever eaten spaghetti and meatballs. I don't order it out, because lots of places include pork in their meatball mix. And I didn't have it growing up at home - spaghetti night was usually just spaghetti and sauce with no meat added.

I started out with a pound of lamb, and I used 10 ounces for hamburgers. That left 6 ounces for tonight for the two of us. I used the ingredients from this recipe. Adding in the cheese and breadcrumbs made the meatballs a lot bigger than I thought they would be. At first, I made four, but I ended up cutting them in half.


It ended up being a lot of food. I made the meatballs first, before starting the pasta or heating up the sauce. Less stress knowing other items weren't waiting on the meatballs. They cooked up pretty easily, and I could tell when they were done. I should have tasted them before dropping them into the sauce, but everything worked out.

I made salads for Roy and me, cutting up the vegetables while the pasta was cooking. This is the third day in a row that I've made a salad, since I got all this lettuce from the CSA.


Here's a close-up.



Roy was really happy with how it turned out. He said it was "another rousing success" and "excellent!" I thought the meatballs tasted good, but this was way too much food.

From my CSA food, I used the ground lamb and an egg for the meatballs. For the salad, once again I used the mixed greens and the olive oil.