5 Toasts! Spatula here...I've been a bit (a lot) lazy when it comes to updating the blog, and am therefore a few recipes behind. I actually made one tonight that was quite similar to the one I'm reviewing right now, but that will have to wait until later. Behold! Spaghetti with turkey meatballs.
We actually had this dish a couple weeks ago. I probably had the most trouble with the meatballs, not so much making them as believing they would be done and safe to eat after a mere eight minutes cooking in hot spaghetti sauce. In the end, it was pretty darn good tasting...well tasting? Tasted well? My only gripe is that it tasted pretty much how spaghetti and beef meatballs tastes. All that tomato sauce covering it pretty much masks the taste of whatever meat you're having, leaving only a meaty texture that's interchangable between ground beef or turkey (or probably lamb).
Speaking of ground meat, one trick I find for those who are a bit squeamish about touching the stuff - let alone molding it into ball shapes - is to imagine you're on one of those dark Halloween tours where they put your hand in slimy things and tell you they're different parts of some dead guy's body. I don't know why it makes it better...if you think about it it really should make it worse if anything, but it does. Just jam your hand in that ground turkey and think "these are his braaaaaains!"
Another tip which my sister would tell you is just don't cook with meat at all.
