Easy Garlic Meatballs – Culinary Seasons

Easy homemade garlic meatballs freeze well and come in handy when you need that quick decision on what to have for dinner. This recipe was made with ground beef but I encourage you to make a batch with half ground beef and half ground pork. You can spice it up by adding some chili flakes. Or make it cheesy with a little parmesan, too much parmesan will dry out the meatballs so start light. Serve with the Homemade Marinara.

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I am sure you have those food memories that stick with you. When you recall them you immediate react with a reaction of excitement and bliss. I have many of these nestled in the corners of my brain.

There is one in particular of a hole in the wall Italian restaurant that seriously seated only 8 people max. It was in a college town and the owners were excentric to say the least. You rarely saw them but when you did it seemed like they were putting on a show of sorts, or was it that they had some shady dealings going on out the back door, I never found out.

The restaurant was dimly lit and had a “shrine” to Elvis off to the side of the dining room. They would run a special on Fridays to get the students from the college to dine in or take it back to the dorms. A bucket of spaghetti, it was served in a bucket like the old bucket of chicken you would get minus the fast food logo. It had 3 huge meatballs that had so much garlic in them that there was no mistake what you had eaten. You had a choice of regular sauce or spicy. We always got the spicy, man it was hot! You had to get the side of garlic bread too.

I have never tried to match the memory of those garlic meatballs that came in the spicy sauce served in a fried chicken bucket. Looking back gives me have a chuckle. Sadly that restaurant closed not long after I moved from that town but I always remember the garlic meatballs in the spicy sauce, the dimly lit dining room and the “shrine” to Elvis in the corner.

This recipe makes approximately 20 golf ball sized meatballs.

Serve with the Homemade Marinara!