This is the culmination of several weeks' posts.
I showed you how I make my own Spaghetti Sauce, my own Italian Meatballs and even how I can my Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce! This post, I will share how I put it all together to make Spaghetti and Meatballs.
Making Spaghetti!
Having canned everything else in advance, this is now a very quick meal to prepare - and it's inexpensive too.
In one pot, I heat up my meatballs and sauce. For this recipe, I use one of my quart jars of canned meatballs with sauce and one of my pint jars of canned sauce. That seems to be the right amount for 1 pound of dry spaghetti pasta.
I fill another pot about half full with water and bring it to boiling. Adding a pinch of salt is useful at our high elevation to make it boil at the correct temperature.
When the water is boiling, I add the pound of spaghetti pasta. I stir it gently until all the pasta is in the water.
It is important to not over-cook pasta, including spaghetti. It should be cooked just until tender or "al dente" which means "to the teeth" - or to the softness required to be comfortable to eat.
Strain the water from the pasta and place on plates.
Spoon over the desired amount of sauce and meatballs.
(Alternately, mix the strained pasta with the meatballs and sauce - that's how my mother did it - but we have no known Italian blood!)
Here is the result.
And here is your recipe card:
Two of my kitchen witches. One hung in my grandmother's kitchen as long as I can remember, so I have mine - adding a certain magickal spice to my cooking, presumably...
My grandmother's now lives in my mother's kitchen.
Previous recipes in Lori's Cookbook
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Rebel Canning - a general guide about what I do, and why I don't always follow USDA guidelines.
Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce
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