Meatballs

Because I'm lazy I'll just be showing you a real easy recipe this week, Spaghetti. Now there are endless variations on how to cook up a la bologna, but I'll show you mine. It's really very simple.

Firstly I prefer meatballs over mince any day, so how do you make simple meatballs?

Well, quite simply with meat. In the picture above i have used 200g of minced steak, almost every meat is suitable for meatballs (try half pork, half beef). You can add egg, breadcrumbs etc... but to be honest just by adding a little salt you can shape the balls well enough. I have added a little paprika and oregano (O REG GANO if your American, ORI GANO if sensible) as well as basic seasoning to mine.

To cook, seal off the meatballs in a little olive oil until nicely browned. Remove to a baking tray and finish in a oven at 200 degrees c for roughly quarter of an hour.

And now how to make the sauce

To make a good Italian sauce all you need is onion, garlic and tomato. But we'll add to this a little, firstly fry some sliced or diced onions in the same pan you used for the meatballs, we want to use all that meaty fat left over, add crushed garlic to the party and cook lightly till soft. Add a couple of good sized chopped tomatoes and simmer till reduced alittle, and basically your there, when you cook the pasta (in salted water with a good splash of olive oil) reserve alittle oil to loosen the sauce, add the meatballs to the pan to warm and serve over the pasta, which will have been drained and tossed with olive oil and black pepper.

Et Viola, bein appreveche

(none of the above is Italian)