Meatballs

Had some friends for dinner last night but I didn’t have time to start cooking until about 7ish.  I decided to make spaghetti and meat balls, not massively refined but they were very tasty and I even got a quote for the blog from Justin: "These meatballs are really f*&!%ng good and you can quote me on that".  Which was nice.

The meatballs were a mixture of pork and beef, with lots of herbs, egg, breadcrumbs, shallot and smoked paprika.  The sauce was going for about and hour and a half. Celery, shallot and carrot very finely diced and softened for 20 mins.  Then wine, tinned tomatoes, water, sugar, salt pepper and finely diced mushrooms.  Then I coloured the meatballs in a frying pan, chucked them in with the sauce and let them cook through.  At the last minute stirred in basil and spinach.  Served it in a big dish in the middle of the table so everyone could help themselves to more.