Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Meatballs


Meatballs in a tomato sauce with pasta. Cheap and easy. Like me.


Good meatballs are made with cuts of beef like shin, and blade. Osso bucco would be the choice for the ultimate meat balls but it is usually the more expensive cut. Cuts like rump, eye fillet, and t-bone don't work so well, this is because the muscle fibers are to long, (wrong texture) and they lack the conective tissue, (flavor). Plus they cost a bloody fortune!


The other night I cooked them like this:

Ingredents:

5oog Osso bucco trimed from bone. (Reserve bone).

3 cups of a good quality, (like home made) tomato based pasta sauce.

2 carrrots peeled.

1 large brown onion.

4 cloves of garlic.

1/2 tea spoon of choped rosemarry.

1/2 tea spoon tyme choped.

1/2 tea spoon choped oregano.

1 tea spoon of fresh cracked pepper.

2 tea spoons of salt flakes. (Not rock salt or that refined shit)

2 table spoons of bread crumbs.

1 table spoon balsamic vinagar.

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