This exciting edition of Cooking With LAB is brought to you by my friend Christy, Allrecipes.com, Pyrex and my SIL Becca for giving us a wireless keypad for our iPad so I could blog in the kitchen.
My friend Christy suggested I make turkey meatballs for Charlie because I am running out of meat to feed him and eventually it’s going to be weird to feed him chicken out of a jar and i feel guilty giving him processed deli meat every single day. Not that it’s done me any noticeable harm, but then again, maybe It has but you can’t tell because you’ve also had a lot of turkey sandwiches. I’ve never eaten a meatball except for the little ones in spaghetti but it seemed like a good idea.
It seemed like an especially good idea at 5:08 this morning when I’d already been awake for over an hour. Unfortunately last night when my thoughtful, wonderful, sweet husband put away the groceries (along with cleaning out the fridge and the pantry thankyoulordforthegiftofpaulbryant) he put the ground turkey in the fridge. I rarely freeze food. On account of I don’t plan ahead enough to buy food in advance. So I sort of freaked out. Like it was the worst thing in the world that the turkey was frozen. And for real I sort of thought I would have to wait a day to make them while they thawed. The thing you should know about me and the kitchen is that while I remain relatively calm in every other aspect of my life-the classroom, bad traffic, parenting- I FLIPOUT in the kitchen. I know this is hard for y’all to understand, but I really don’t know what I’m doing. So it was sort of a miracle when I remembered you can thaw things out in the microwave. Choirs of angels were singing and everything.
The directions called for a 9x13 dish. It’s a little annoying to me that recipes are so specific about the size of the baking dish yet baking dishes don’t have thier measurements on them. I grabbed the one that was a little less than a ruler on one side and a little more than a ruler on the other and then regretted it later because if I’d used the biggest dish I could have made all of them at once.
I decided to shower while the 2nd batch was in the oven. I took care of all of my personal hygiene in less than the 15 minutes they needed to be in the oven only to discover that for some reason I’d turned the oven off after I took out the first batch.
Now the 2nd batch is done and is way crispier than the 1st batch so I’m worried the 1st batch wasn’t fully cooked. I’m terribly afraid of giving people food poisoning. Mostly myself because that would suck but also Charlie because guess who has to clean that mess up.
So really, I’ve made twice baked meatballs..
Here is the recipe if you want it. My favorite part of the recipe is how the say “if possible” when suggesting rolling the meatballs out with an ice cream scoop. Why doesn’t the Southern Living King Ranch Chicken Mac n Cheese recipe say use a Dutch Oven “if possible” Because that’s where I’m stumped. Seriously? A dutch oven? What am I? Living in the Netherlands?
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/fast-and-friendly-meatballs/
I added the stuff the first reviewer suggested because she sounded like she knew what she was talking about. But now that I’ve tasted it I have to say turkey meatballs and spaghetti meatballs are not the same.
You probably already knew that.