Tonight is usually out cookout night, but Mother Nature had other plans – it’s been raining for a week! So tonight, instead of kielbasa and all the fixins, we went to Plan B and whipped up some spaghetti and vegetarian meatballs indoors.
I put a pot of water on to boil and, once it got rolling, added the spaghetti. While that cooked, I formed some meatballs from a tube of Lightlife vegetarian beef and put them in a heated pan with a tablespoon or so of olive oil, turning each of the meatballs every couple of minutes.
For the sauce, I pulled out a jar of the chunky basil pasta sauce I made this summer! Tonight’s dinner was the maiden voyage for this year’s batch, and as usual, this recipe didn’t disappoint. There’s just nothing like having fresh tomatoes in the “offseason”! Thank goodness I’ve got more jars where this comes from.
The pasta and the meatballs finished cooking at about the same time, and all I had to do after that was drain the pasta and put everything together! A base of spaghetti topped with several spoonfuls of sauce and half a dozen meatballs – we could have been at an Italian café. Add a couple of slices of garlic bread on the side and the meal was more than complete.
As for the cookout? Who knows – maybe we can squeeze one in this week sometime. I’ll definitely keep you posted!
:)