Homemade Meatballs

This is actually what we had for dinner on Sunday night.  The recipe is from my great grandma.  I have many fond memories from my childhood of helping my mom make these.  She would also make it with homemade spaghetti sauce, but most of the time I just use jarred sauce.

My husband and I recently bought quarter of a cow (about 150 lbs), so we have a deep freezer full of different cuts - ground beef, roasts, steaks, ribs, etc..  It's nice knowing exactly where your meat has come from.  These meatballs were made with 3 pounds of the ground beef that we bought.

HOMEMADE MEATBALLS

simmered in the slow cooker

prep time: 15 minutes

baking time: 30 minutes

slow cooker time: 5 to 6 hours

Ingredients:

2 jars (32 oz. each) spaghetti sauce - I use Prego traditional

3 pounds ground beef

2 eggs

3 tablespoons dried onion flakes

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon dried parsley

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 1/2 cups breadcrumbs

1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Combine meat, eggs, and all seasonings.  Form into 3 dozen meatballs.  Bake for 30 minutes. 

Pour 1 jar of sauce into slow cooker (make sure to use a 6 quart slow cooker for this).  Place all the meatballs in sauce.  Using second jar of sauce, cover and fill the crock pot.

Let simmer on low for 5 to 6 hours. 

Serve over spaghetti or any type of pasta.

These meatballs freeze really well. I typically freeze them in packages of 6 meatballs with sauce.  If there is any left over sauce from the second jar of sauce, I add extra sauce to the packages I am freezing.