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    • Meatballs

      Posted at 7:52 pm by StephMo
      Nov 24th

      One of the perks about growing up with an Italian mother and grandmother was the food. Whenever my mother or grandmother had a pot of sauce on the stove you could pretty much guarantee there was some meat cooking in there. My grandmother especially, you never knew what she would pull out of that pot, whether it was chicken, pork, sausages, or meatballs they were always delicious. So whenever I am making a pot of red sauce, I will often throw some meatballs into the sauce as well. Here is the link to my red sauce recipe https://stephaniessliceoflife.com/2019/12/30/feeling-saucy/

      This meatball recipe is pretty much the same recipe my mother always made, which means it is probably pretty similar to what my Grandmother used to make. She never measured her ingredients, nor do I, but I believe they are pretty similar. I make these homemade meatballs with ground turkey, but you can make them with ground beef too. Let me just say that I did not grow up on turkey meatballs. There was no way my Italian mother or grandmother would have ever made ground turkey anything lol.

      Here is my best guess of measurements.

      Ingredients:

      1 lb. ground turkey or beef

      1/3 cup Italian breadcrumbs

      1 tbsp. grated parmesan

      1/8 – 1/4 tsp. garlic powder

      1/4 tsp. salt

      1/4 tsp. pepper

      1 egg

      Mix all of the ingredients together in a medium sized mixing bowl.

      Shape the meat into balls with your hands and either cook them in a frying pan or bake them. When I bake them it is at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. When using a frying pan you need to just make sure the meat is cooked through. Turn the meatballs every few minutes to get them brown on every side.

      Today I am cooking them in my pot of red sauce so I just wanted them browned in the pan, and then I will let them cook in the sauce for about 1 1/2 hours.

      Today in addition to meatballs, I browned a few Italian sausages and put them in a sauce as well. Yum!

      As my mother and grandmother would say, mangia!

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    • Chicken Cutlet Parmesan

      Posted at 12:59 pm by StephMo
      Jan 20th

      After all the wonderful flavors had melded together in my pot of sauce the other day (recipe for homemade sauce in separate blog), I decided to add some chicken parm to the dinner menu. Not something I do often because it is time consuming. Not to mention that my husband recently told me that my chicken parm is the best he has ever had, which now puts tremendous stress on me every time I make it.

      Just as you can get some frustrations out while crushing peppermints for chocolate peppermint bark, you can also get some out while pounding chicken breast. I personally don’t like to purchase the already packaged cutlets because I find there are always pieces I want to cut off of the chicken and it never leaves enough for a good sized cutlet. I buy packages of boneless chicken breast and just cut them into smaller pieces and pound them with a wooden mallet between pieces of wax paper or plastic wrap.

      When I am just making cutlets not to bake into chicken parmesan, I pound them thinner than I did for this.

      Depending on the size of your pan, I use enough vegetable or canola oil so that it ends up being about 1/4 inch high. Heat the oil over medium heat until it sizzles when a drop of water is put in the oil. Then start preparing the cutlets.

      In one bowl I beat 2 eggs mixed with equal amounts of water. In another bowl I put flour, and in the third bowl I put Italian Seasoned Breadcrumbs mixed with about 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese.

      Dip each cutlet into the flour, then the egg, and lastly the breadcrumbs. Put each cutlet in oil and cook for about 2-3 minutes per side depending on the thickness of your cutlets.

      When cutlets are cooked I like to put them on a paper towel lined plate to remove some of the excess oil.

      Put a very thin layer of sauce on the bottom of your baking dish. Then add a layer of cutlets, another layer of sauce, a layer of shredded mozzarella cheese, and repeat with cutlets, sauce and cheese.

      Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 5-10 more minutes until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbly.

      Enjoy!!

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