Sweet and Sour Something

This is great sauce for Sweet and Sour Meatballs which I often take in a slow cooker to parties, or Sweet and Sour Chicken which I like to make at home. I bet it even works well with Pork.

Serve it whichever way over rice, and you've got a meal that can't be beat.

Ingredients
1 cup sugar
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 cup vinegar 1 green pepper, cut in strips
1 cup pineapple juice
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/3 cup soy sauce
8 ounce can of pineapple chunks, drained

Instructions
Combine all ingredients except the pineapple.
Cook, stirring, until thickened.
Add pineapple just before serving.

Meatballs with Confetti Rice

Meatballs with Gravy:
n a large skillet, combine 1 cup Creamy Sauce mix and 2 cups cold water. stir in 1/4 cup of Ketchup, a teaspoon of dried minced Onion, and a teaspoon Worcestershire sauce.  Then add 4 ounces of shredded American cheese. Cook and Stir until thickened. Add a batch of freezer meatballs, or 24 1 inch meatballs of your own recipe. Heat through.

Add the meatballs to the center of the Confetti Rice ring. Pour some gravy over the platter and serve the rest  separately.

Confetti Rice:
Make about 2 and 1/2 cups of rice.  I'd start by bringing 2 and 1/2 cups of water to boiling.  Add a cup and a 1/4 rice to it. Once it comes back to a boil, turn it down to a simmer and cook until the water has been absorbed. Cook a bag of mixed veggies ( beans, carrots, peas or what have you) and when the rice is done, mix with the cooked veggies.  Make a ring of rice on a platter. This can be done with a ring shaped mold or large scoops (use a ice cream scoop) of the rice mixture laid out in a ring.

Makes 6 servings.

Meatball Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup of chopped onion
1 minced clove of garlic
1and 1/2 to 2 teaspoons of curry powder
2 tablespoons of butter or margarine
1 package of freezer meatballs, or 24 1 inch meat balls of your own recipe
1/2 cup water
2 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
1 medium apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
1 teaspoon beef bouillon granules
1/2 teaspoon of ginger
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/4 cup cold water
1 tablespoon of flour

in a 10 inch skillet, cook onion, garlic and curry powder in butter til onion is tender.  Add meatballs and the water, cook covered over medium heat for 5 minutes. Stir in chopped tomatoes, apple, beef bouillon, ginger and salt. Cover and simmer 5-10 minutes or until apple is tender.  Combine the 1/4 cup cold water and flour. Stir into meat mixture. This should thicken, so stir it now and then til it does. once thickened, cook maybe a minute more  and serve over rice with parsely stirred into it. Makes 4 servings.

Saucy Meatballs with Biscuit Topper

Saucy Meatball Ingredients:

1 package of Freezer Meatballs or 24 1 inch meatballs of your own recipe
1 10 ounce can of cream of celery soup
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 cup water
1 3 ounce can of mushrooms ( or equivalent fresh mushrooms)
1 batch of Biscuit Topper, below

First, make the biscuit topper mix and set aside. Place the meatballs in skillet. Combine canned celery soup, flour and paprika. Stir in water & undrained mushrooms. Pour mixture over meatballs in skillet. bring to boiling. Simmer for 10 minutes or until meatballs are heated through. Pour boiling mixture into 1&1/2 quart casserole dish: top with biscuit topper. bake iin 400 degree oven for 15 minutes.


Biscuit Topper Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon celery salt
1/4 milk
2 teaspoons cooking oil
3/4 cups soft breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Combine flour, baking powder, and celery salt in medium mixing bowl.  combine milk & cooking oil and then add to flour mixture just until blended. Combine Breadcrumbs and butter. Divide mix into 8 portions, dropping each portion in the butter & breadcrumbs, coating all sides. Place on top of meatballs mixture.

Sauerbraten Style Meatballs

Ingredients
A package of Freezer meatballs, or 24 1 inch meatballs of your own recipe
2 cups water
1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
2 cubes of beef bouillion
8 ginger snaps
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup raisins
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Hot cooked rice or noodles

In a medium saucepan bring water, pineapple juice, bouillon to boiling. coarsely crush gingersnaps, then add those along with brown sugar, raisins and lemon juice to the pot. Stir, cooking until gingersnap crumbs are dissolved. Add meatballs and simmer about 20 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through, stirring occasionally. Serve over hot cooked rice or noodles.

Freezer Meatballs

Yes, a recipe for meatballs. I know you probably throw them together like I often do - some ground beef, some seasoned breadcrumbs from the store and a tad bit of milk, and I've got enough to make dinner. There's a lot of things you can do with meatballs besides just spaghetti. So this recipe makes a whole lot of meatballs. Put them in the freezer and then you can just whip them out and make - Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Sorry. This ia starter recipe. To follow will be other recipes of things you can do with meatballs - these meatballs, which you make up and then freeze in packages of 24.

Freezer Meatballs:
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 cups soft breadcrumbs ( from 4 slices bread)
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
3 pounds ground beef  The ground beef can be partially replaced with other ground meats such as chicken, turkey, pork, lamb, venison. Don't replace all of it, because its too lean the texture and flavor change.

In large bowl, beat eggs and then add alll but the meat. Once that has been throughly combined, mix in the ground meat.  Then chill it until cold, usually an hour is plenty of time.

With wet hands,  shape mixture into 6 dozen 1 inch meatballs. Bake meatballs in a couple of baking dishes at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or so. spread meatballs on a sheet pan, put into the freezer just til frozen. Then take frozen meatballs and package into three 24 meatball containers.

Now you 've got the beginnings of a few meals. Make Spaghetti and Meatballs. Make Sweet and Sour meatballs using my Something Sweet & Sour recipe over rice or hot chow mien noodles. Make...

Meatball Rolls
Take a container of Freezer meatballs, and add a jar of your favorite spagetti sauce. Simmer that until heated through.In a small skillet, take a whole green pepper, cut it in strips, and fry in butter with a medium onion until tender. For each roll, put four meatballs on the bottom, add some onions and pepper and then spoon more of the spaghetti sauce over the roll. Top off with a tad bit of Parmesan cheese and you're all set to eat.