Beans and Balls

The dish tonight blends two old time favorites. Baked beans with homemade meatballs!

First make some meatballs. Do this yourself because those frozen ones are just plain weird with some kind of mystery meat. Why mess up your otherwise wonderful meal?

Ingredients

1 lbs ground beef (80-20)

½ lbs loose sausage

½ onion grated

½ cup Parmesan cheese

1/3 cup milk

1 Tbs Worcester sauce

2 eggs

¾ cup bread crumbs

1 tsp salt

½ tsp black pepper

½ tsp garlic powder

Directions:

Grate the onion into a large bowl. Add the ground beef and the sausage, mix.

Pour in the bread crumbs, egg, milk, sauce. Season with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Add cheese if you wish.

Mix completely with your hands squeezing to blend everything together.

Let sit while you preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Line and spray a baking sheet.

After mix has set for at least 10 mins. Lay out a sheet of wax paper on the counter. With an ice cream scoop, place each ball on the paper. When all are made. Set a small bowl of water beside the baking tray. Dip your hands in the water and roll each ball as you place them on the baking tray. This way each will be formed nicely. Keep your fingers wet and the meat wont stick.

Lightly sprinkle with baking soda to aid in browning.

Bake in a 400F oven until cooked through, about 20-24 minutes. The meatballs should all be evenly cooked and nicely browned on the outside.

This makes about 35 meatballs. I only used half for this recipe and bagged the others for a stroganoff casserole latter in the week. These freeze well also!

I made this in the morning, but you might find it easier to do the night before.

Now as for the baked beans:

Ingredients:

4 strips of bacon fried crisp – save drippings and add to beans.

2 (15-ounce) Cans Bush’s vegetarian baked beans or 1 28oz can. Drained

1 cup diced apple peeled and cored

1 cup diced yellow onion

¼ cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 Tbs mustard

Directions:

Get out your balls. I found that about 1 large can of beans balances out well with maybe 15 – 16 meatballs.

Spray an 8 x 8 casserole dish and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Cook up the bacon till almost done, but not quite. Just enough that it has rendered the grease. Drain the bacon on paper towels but save 1 Tbs of grease to add to the beans.

In a large bowl chop the onion. 

 

 

Peel the apple, core, chop and mix into the fresh onion. This slows the “browning” that happens to the apple.

Mix in the brown sugar, mustard and Worcester sauce. Stir in the drained beans and mix well stirring in the grease.

Place the meatballs into the sprayed casserole dish and spoon the beans over them. Lay the nearly finished bacon strips on the top.

Bake in a 400 degree oven for an hour. Warning, the aroma might cause a stampede into the kitchen.

I chose to serve some green beans with this. I snapped and rinsed the fresh beans then coated them lightly with olive oil. Place on a foil lined tray and slide into the oven at the half hour mark.

For desert a simple dish of tropical fruit salad dusted with cinnamon finishes off this wonderful meal.

This is an honor to serve to my Master. It is simple, direct, and fantastic.

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