Homemade Meatballs

Wednesdays are kind of busy in our household. Dinners are hard for me to plan on Wednesdays with our oldest in ice-skating. Therefore I am always looking for simple meals to prepare. Or meals I can prepare ahead of time and freeze. I try to take in consideration of our daughters favorite dinners. One of those are Homemade meatballs. I'm sure they don't have to be homemade, but I think everything taste better when it's homemade. I'll be completely honest, I do not use measuring cups when I make my meatballs. Therefore I am unable to give you exact measurements. I use to measure everything when I was first learning to cook, now I wing it. I almost think you know your becoming a good cook when you don't have to measure anymore and everything turns out great. here are my ingredients and how I make homemade meatballs. I'll try to give you somewhat of measurements.

Ingredients

• Hamburger (How many pounds you want to use is up to you, you can freeze extra meatballs!)
• Eggs (I use one egg per pound of hamburger.)
• Milk ( I guess to how much hamburger I have in the bowl.)
• Bread crumbs (You can also use crushed boxed turkey stuffing crumbs) (I use 1.5-2 pieces of bread per pound.)
• Salt (1 tablespoon.)
• Black pepper (1 teaspoon.)
• Parmesan cheese grated( Again I just throw this in, my guess is a half cup.)
• Garlic clove grated( I always use 2 because I love garlic.)

Homemade sauce(sweet and sour)

• 1 jar of chili sauce
• 1 jar of grape jelly

I put it in the crock pot and let them jelly melt with the chili sauce while I am making the meatballs. It always seems to take a while for the jelly to melt.

Directions
This is how I make my meatballs, I'm sure there are many other ways.

• I preheat my oven to 400
• I lay wax paper over my cooking sheets so the meatballs don't stick.
• I let them cook till they are nicely brown. usually about 20 minutes. I check occasionally to be safe.
• Once they are done cooking in the oven, I lay them on paper towel to drain the grease off. 
• I then throw them in the crock pot with my sweet and sour sauce and let them sit for a little while.

Enjoy!!