SNOOZY LIKE A SUNDAY MORNING...

You might notice that a pumpkin is never very far away from You Know Who.  Damn Dog.

We're having a very lazy Sunday morning here at Chez Spinster.  Laundry is sploshing happily about in the washing contraption, meatballs are simmering away on the stove (*) and I am just about ready to start stitching for the day.  I've been playing with Shepherd's Bush "Harvest of Plenty"' and depending on how closely I need to pay attention to today's TeeVee programming, I might just have a Happy Dance by sundown! I  think it's been months and months since I've done cross stitch, so the silk through linen thing is quite lovely, if I may say so.

(*) As for the meatballs....I made a big batch of Salisbury Steak meatballs that I saw on The Pinterest.   I haven't had Salisbury steak since elementary school, and I'm not exactly sure what compelled me to try these, but I am certain that this is quite possibly the best meal I have ever made in my whole entire life.  I will be eating these atop mashed potatoes and egg noodles, and will have to apologize to my dad in heaven for eating starch on starch.  (We always ate our egg noodles on top of our mashed potatoes, and every time we did, Dad would say "Starch on top of starch?" before digging in.  He always did so with a twinkle in his eye, so methinks he wouldn't be too terribly disappointed in me after all).

Here's the recipe: It's from jocooks.com (complete link below):

SALISBURY STEAK MEATBALLS WITH GRAVY AND MASHED POTATOES

June 21, 2015 58 Comments

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These Salisbury Steak Meatballs with Gravy and Mashed Potatoes are a classic and a true comfort food. An incredibly delicious and easy dinner recipe!

Nothing screams comfort food to me more than meatballs and I would go as far as considering myself a meatball expert. I really am a sucker for a good meatball and I’ve never met a meatball I didn’t like. But these salisbury steak meatballs rank up there with my favorite meatballs of all time, which of course have to be my Romanian meatballs, but I may be biased here. However these meatballs have to be the most flavorful meatballs I’ve ever had, and that gravy is to kill for!

It’s amazing what you get when you mix some ground beef with some delicious condiments. I remember when I was in college and didn’t cook much, frozen dinners were my meal of choice often. Among them was salisbury steak with mac and cheese. Yep, I used to love it. So if you’ve never had salisbury steak before, it’s just ground beef with condiments but it’s shaped to resemble a steak and it’s usually served with gravy along with mashed potatoes or noodles.

But nothing beats homemade, right? The house smelled ridiculous as I was making these. I probably drove some neighbours nuts too! I got about 40 meatballs out of this recipe, which at first I thought was a lot, but then I wish I’d have doubled the recipe because they’re just too good. Oh well, I’ll just have to make them again and again.

I couldn’t resist popping a couple in my mouth after they were fried. If you want to go the healthier route with this recipe, you could bake the meatballs, I bake meatballs all the time and they turn out great, but there’s something to be said about making the gravy in those brown bits left in the skillet. That’s where all the flavor is my friends.

I chose to serve these meatballs with mashed potatoes because I haven’t had mashed potatoes in a while and to me nothing goes better with meatballs than mashed potatoes to soak up that incredible gravy.

4.8 from 13 reviews

SALISBURY STEAK MEATBALLS WITH GRAVY AND MASHED POTATOES

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PREP TIME

30 mins

COOK TIME

1 hour

TOTAL TIME

1 hour 30 mins

These Salisbury Steak Meatballs with Gravy and Mashed Potatoes are a classic and a true comfort food. An incredibly delicious and easy dinner recipe!

Author: Jo Cooks

Serves: 8

INGREDIENTS

For Meatballs

• 1½ lb lean ground beef
  
• ½ cup breadcrumbs, I used Panko
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup ketchup
• ¼ cup coarse grain mustard
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp seasoned salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 2 tbsp olive oil (for frying)

For Gravy

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 cup beef broth or chicken broth
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• ½ tsp seasoning salt
• 1 tbsp ketchup
• parsley for garnish

For Mashed Potatoes

• 5 large potatoes, peeled and chopped into 1 inch cubes
• 4 tbsp (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
• ¼ to ½ cup skim milk
• ¼ cup light cream cheese
• salt and pepper to taste

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http://www.jocooks.com/main-courses/beef-main-courses/salisbury-steak-meatballs-with-gravy-and-mashed-potatoes/