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Grandma's Meatballs Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 lb meat (ground beef, but maybe a ground meatball mix?)
1 egg
2 T cheese
3 slices bread (I recall her putting this under the faucet and making slices wet, not super saturated)
2 T sauce
Pinch pepper, salt, garlic, parsley, oregano
Directions:
Directions:
Mix all by hand, form into balls and bake or pan fry (I can't recall which she did). Add to sauce.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
One of my fondest memories is going to G&G's house on Ghents Rd on a holiday and being greeted by the amazing aromas of her cooking the minute I stepped onto the porch. Reproducing her meatballs specifically has been a life long goal for me, and every time I make them, Ron remarks something like "They are really close" but to me, they are never as good as hers. I suspect that although it may be that I haven't mastered the fine art of her ingredient proportions or the way she mixed them, it's probably just because they were made by her <3

Diann note: Cheese was Romano. I never saw Grandma or Nonna use Parmesan. Also, Nonna always fried her meatballs in a cast iron skillet. Grandma mostly fried them because they tasted better. As she got older, she baked them.

 

 

 

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