MEATBALLS

I started out yesterday with 14 meat balls and 5 mild Italian sausages. I can account for Geri and our roommate Michael eating 5 meatballs but I reckon I ate the rest.

When I started this sauce I  braised the meat  in a large 12 quart, Dutch oven, and that is the foundation of the the entire marinara sauce. Then I add the garlic, and cook it for one minute, then the tomatoes, basil, dried herbs,  6 bay leaf, salt, a little sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes, and then I cook the meat in the sauce, over low heat for 4 hours.

The meat balls I bake for 12 minutes in the oven, and add those to the sauce as well. They're so friggin' good I can't stop eating them. It's a good thing I'm cycling everyday.

All that's left is the 6 chicken things, which just fall off the bone.

That's my world today.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War

Food consumption;

Breakfast; Greek yogurt, banana, granola, black tea

Lunch; small bowl of pasta, 3 meatballs, sausage

Dinner; pasta again, 2 meatballs, salad w/carrots, cucumber, red bell pepper, romaine, frisee,
            olive oil, lemon, s & p

Exercise; 7.5 miles walking/hiking, 1.5 hrs. cycling