Everything good (in this case: lean turkey veggie meatballs and smooth, tangy tomato sauce with fresh green herbs) tangled up in hot pasta and just exploding with color and texture. closes eyes and purrs I seriously love it. I don’t often make spaghetti and meatballs but I’ve had it on my overcrowded food idea board for a looong time now and I may or may not have just gotten tired of looking at it. Know what I mean? One of the advantages of listing your ideas: getting tired of looking at all the things you haven’t done yet which forces you to follow through. And I’m so so glad this recipe actually happened because both Bjork and I could eat it for every meal all week forever. Well, we ARE eating it all week. I made the recipe twice which resulted in at least 900 little containers of skinny spaghetti and meatballs in the fridge waiting to be packed into a lunchbox. Not. Complaining. Here’s the deal on the skinny. The reason this recipe is skinnier than your average spaghetti and meatballs is because: So to make this happen, you’ll have to chop up your veggies really small. Like, food processor or bust small. I used those teensy tiny red peppers that everybody loves right now and I just chopped the heck out of them with my food processor. In addition to cutting some calories and packing some nutrition into the meatballs, you are going to get some rockin’ sweet red pepper flavor in your meatballs and you are not going to complain. Because YUM. Veggies + turkey + whole wheat breadcrumbs + cheese = these. You guys, the meatballs. Excuse me for yelling but BJORK LOVED THEM. I loved them too, but I guess I don’t fall for meatballs quite as extremely as he does? I don’t know. It was just ridiculous; he kept walking by the meatball bowl and just popping those little things like candy. And again. And again. And after we completely inhaled our hot plates of spaghetti and meatballs for a nice little Saturday night dinner date at home, he went back for… more meatballs. Just meatballs on the plate. Okay then. Between the turkey and veggie meatballs, the sauce (storebought all the way! there’s a generic brand that I love with a short ingredient list, no added sugar, and a super smooth texture so why the heck not?!), the hot sticky spaghetti noodles, and the fresh herbs and freshly grated Parmesan cheese, there’s a lot to luv about this meal. If we were normal people who made recipes more than once, this would forsurely make its way into the permanent weeknight dinners category. Just so many good vibes right now. 4.5 from 15 reviews
