Meatballs for Good Friends (and a full freezer) Part 1 (with cheese)

9 Sep

NOTE TO READERS: It is apparent from the number of visitors to yesterday’s meatball recipe that you love meatballs! Here is a reblog of a fancier recipe (that is not much harder, also freezes well and is baked!)

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(Three hundredth post!!!!)

Cooking a nice meal for both parents and kids does not have to involve making two separate dinners.Well, not exactly, anyway.

I confess to getting cold feet halfway through my prep and making myself a safety net, so let’s say this time I made one-and-a-half meals, but in the process, I really stocked the freezer for the new semester.

I made some “fancy” meatballs and some basic ones (that recipe later in the week) for a Single Mothers By Choice-three-family dinner here at home last weekend…pasta, meatballs and red sauce…can you really go wrong? My friend, Pam, brought the salad fixings, and Kim brought a sinful dessert (which one pretends is for the kids, but is really just as much for the growns) and everything went swimmingly! And everyone liked both fancy and plain.

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7 Responses to “Meatballs for Good Friends (and a full freezer) Part 1 (with cheese)”

kathryningrid September 16, 2013 at 7:05 pm #

Oohhhhhh, delicious! And big congratulations on your 300th post!

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- Natalia at Hot, Cheap & Easy September 17, 2013 at 12:22 pm #
  
  Haha, Kathryn, this is actually a reblog of my 300th…I am over 400 now….
  
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  - kathryningrid September 17, 2013 at 12:32 pm #
    
    Okay, then, 135% congratulations!!! 😉
Mad Dog September 9, 2013 at 9:10 pm #

…and drinking the fino 😉

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- Natalia at Hot, Cheap & Easy September 9, 2013 at 9:45 pm #
  
  ¡salud!
  
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Mad Dog September 9, 2013 at 8:57 am #

I should get round to making those this time 😉

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- Natalia at Hot, Cheap & Easy September 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm #
  
  still got that fino weighing on your mind?
  
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