Too Good not to Link!

Okay, I was trying to not post recipes here that aren't my own because that gives me more motivation to actually type up my archives, but these meatballs were just too good not to link!

Seriously.

It makes a big batch, but that's good since it is time-consuming and they'll keep forever in the freezer. I thawed the last of mine out for lunch the other day and ended up eating them the next day for breakfast, too! They're just so tasty! Also, since veal is pricey and harder to find: I bought the 1.5 lbs of beef at the counter, so I wouldn't have any left over. Then instead of 1.5 lbs of ground veal and 1.5 lbs of ground pork, I did 2 lbs of pork and 1 lb of veal since the packages only come in 1 lb increments. I think the flavor and texture were both pretty well maintained this way. Previously I've replaced the half pound of veal with beef, but that made the meatballs a little dry and a lot less flavorful.

A lot of the meatballs crumbled once I added them to the sauce, but it was still absolutely delicious that way! I think keeping them really small would help prevent that in the future, but you'll see that there are almost too many meatballs to fit into the sauce anyways so making it meat sauce with meatballs works out well!

Hope everyone's having a nice weekend! We're currently getting some lovely champagne powder down here, so I'm wishing I'd gone up skiing instead of working on these stupid lab reports!

Frozen Dinners

Tomorrow is my last day before Winter Break ends and I am forced back into the time-sink that is school. So, I would like to make one more delicious meal to freeze for those nights when Mike's talking in Python and I'm talking in the degenerate triplet code of our DNA and we need to eat without bringing our minds back to reality.

So far, I'm made big batches of veal meatballs in sauce and beef stew, both great comfort foods that don't loose much after being frozen for 3 months. I'd really like something less meaty, or at least without cow, as our third frozen meal option. Any ideas?


What are your favorite last-minute, easy dinners? How do you cope with having no time and/or no energy to make food? What is the biggest cause of this lack of time and energy? For instance, we catch up on the Pizza Hut delivery woman's daughter's latest misadventures during our finals weeks. Mac and cheese with kosher hot dogs is our main staple when I'm working a ton and Mike has some extra time to 'cook'. Normally, we're two-veggie, lean meat, whole grain people, but life doesn't always make it possible to cook such things. I'm just curious what everyone eats when they're too exhausted to do whatever we would normally do for a meal!

And again, ideas for things to freeze?

Cheers!