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bjbjBrBr Action, really? All right. We ve started doing a whole series on budget recipes
and things that you can do with ground beef and things you can do with marinara, and as
part of that I'm going to show you one of my all-time favorites and probably one of
my kids all-time favorites. We're going to make meatballs. We're going to make a very
simple basic meatball that are great by themselves, but that you can also turn into all kinds
of other things. That's one of my favorite tricks. You can actually make them and stash
them in the freezer and bake them off whenever you need them and you're then halfway to a
great dinner. All right. So, a trick to the meatball, bread crumbs. I'm going to show
you this. All this is, is fresh bread crumbs. There's the puppy. It's not my puppy. It's
my brother s puppy. All right. Fresh bread crumbs, easy, easy. Throw a couple pieces
of bread, this is two hamburger buns, and it doesn't matter what kind really of hamburger
buns... Excuse me. Ricky, would you mind? Thank you. I used a couple of hamburger buns.
You can use whole wheat bread if that's what you want to do. You can use the heels and
leftovers. You can actually even buy bread crumbs, if you want to. This is the easiest
way, and you just crush it up in your blender, food processor, whatever. All right. To this
one egg, and that's my one and only fancy kitchen trick, cracking an egg with one hand,
OK. One small onion. He's trying to ask me what he's supposed to do with the puppy now.
Just hold on a minute. And this is two tomatoes. I think I actually have a little too much
so I'm going to use about one and a half. These were big and I did seed them. I didn't
bother peeling it. All right so I'm going to run this over here. I'm going to mash it
all up in a paste, and I'll be back in a second to show you the next step. OK. So, we have
our fresh bread crumbs, which is going to mean we have a nice light tender meatball,
and we have our vegetables which is going to keep them nice and moist and garlic and
smells really good. If you make all the stuff you're going to put in your meatballs into
a paste first you get a really nice homogenous blend without little chunks everywhere, and
it's just easier to get it all mixed up. So, I've got two pounds of ground beef and this
one is... I don't know. It's not fabulous. It was what was on sale. I think this one
was a 85. You don't want much less than that for fat because they'll end up tough. OK.
Well, this is more like a tablespoon. Teaspoon and a half of garlic powder and onion powder,
salt, and pepper. OK. And one of the things you want to remember, and I know I say this
in everything I do, but you want to remember when you're working with ground beef you don't
want to have to mix it up any more than you have to which is to get everything all in
there together. It's another reason why you want put everything through the blender or
food processor beforehand. So, if that's already mixed up you don't have to work on the meat
so much. So, this is all we re doing. I'm going to mix this as best I can and yeah,
use your hands. It's a lot easier. You can tell where there's pockets where it's not
quite mixed up. I'm going to mix all this up, and I've got a 350 degree oven. I have
my little disher but I'm going to wash my hands in just a second and I'll be back and
show you how to put the meatballs together. This is the best way to make meatballs. These
little ice cream scoop disher things. I know that if you have an Italian grandmother, she
could probably whip these out by hand and they were all perfect and uniform and I didn't
have an Italian grandmother. I lost the gene somewhere in Ireland. All right. So this is
the easiest way to do it, and we're going to bake these. It helps if you put it on a
rack like this over a cookie sheet and you bake it off. You will actually drain off a
lot of the fat which is always a good thing. So, they're not greasy they're still that
light tender yummy thing, but this also makes sure that your proportions are all perfectly
even so that when you're cooking them they'll cook at the same rate. Now a lot of times
my daughter and I will come in here, and we'll make three or four batches at once because
if you want to... And I'll just show you how to do this real quick. See how that s kind
of messy. Take a second, and my hands are damp. It's easier if your hands are wet. Take
a second and just roll them like that, then you end up with a nice Isn't that pretty?
That's pretty but if you want to at this point you can lay them out on a sheet like this
and stick it in the freezer, and then once they're frozen solid you can pop them off
the sheet, throw them in a plastic bag and you can stash them, oh, I don't know, a couple
months. Keep them real nice and tight and when you want to throw them on a baking sheet
just like this on your rack, and you can bake them off from there. All right. So, this is
all I'm doing for these meatballs. I'm going to finish up this batch. So, we're going to
have a 350 degree oven, and I'd say this size - I have small, medium, and large - This size
takes about half an hour in a 350 degree oven. So, once I've baked off a batch, I'm going
to come back, show you what they look like, then I'm going to start showing you what you
can do with them. So we had right at half an hour in the oven and look here... Oh, wait,
they're hot. OK. Look here. See this because we baked it on a rack, see all that goop that
came out of there. That's not the nice stuff. That's the fat. We don't want it in the meatball,
but the inside of the meatball is perfect. Look here. Hot, hot, hot. God, I just channeled
my father. OK. See, it's still nice and tender. Yummy. So, meatballs now they're ready for
just anything you want to do to it. My two year old just picks his food up and puts it
on his fork. Of course, you can do the marina with the pasta like I showed you. These are
great, they are. Just warm the meatballs and the sauce, but there's all kinds of other
stuff you can with it, including a meatball sub, which I'm about to knock out here in
a minute. So check out the website, which is ThrillBillyGourmet.com. Find me on YouTube
which is probably where you're seeing me, or if it's on iTunes, make sure you subscribe.
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