TAKE FIVE: Easy Meals Starting with Frozen Meatballs

[Lorraine of AZ]

Yes, it’s time for ‘Take Five” again. In five recipes we’ll explore convenience foods and convenient items for meal preparation. We’ll explore tilapia and mini-tarts pans, ground beef and grill pans, and more.

But we’re going to start out with my very favorite convenience food: frozen pre-cooked meatballs! Now it’s true that many folks like to prepare their own meatballs. If you are one of these, go to the search and you’ll find recipes for scratch meatballs galore. Make them up, cook them, and freeze them individually. Now you are ready to try the recipes that call for frozen, pre-cooked meatballs. You’ll also see in the search many recipes using these meatballs; also recipes for gravies/sauces to serve the meatballs in. I love collecting recipes for these little treasures. Already I have too many to fit in just one cookbook. Trying them out is a joy. I hope you’ll find joy ~ or at least some satisfactory gustatory experience ~ in eating these truly convenient little globes.



Okay, let’s get reacquainted with frozen or scratch pre-cooked meatballs. In the first place they are already cooked. You don’t have to worry about that step of the recipe. All you need to do is cook them long enough to thoroughly reheat. However they do stand up well to all-day cooking in the crockpot.

Here are some recipes that make excellent use of the meatball. I cheated a bit and instead of 5 I tucked in 7 recipes. Try a couple and be sure to share your favorite meatball recipe so others can try yours, too!

Karin Calloway's Philly Cheese Meatball Sandwiches ~ A sandwich full of meatballs; how filling can you get?

Italian Wedding Soup and Mexican Meatball Soup~ Two recipes for meatball soup; one a traditional Italian soup and one with a Mexican accent –both made easier with the use of frozen meatballs

Italian Wedding Salad and Southwest Meatball Salad ~ Again 2 recipes, this time for meatball salad. Yes, you read that right: salads! –One’s a southwest- flavored salad and the other definitely Italian!

Chile Verde Meatballs ~ Salsa verde (green sauce) is my favorite southwestern flavor. This easy-to-make recipe has that flavor in spades!

Meatball Pizza ~ We can’t overlook this jewel of a pizza that will bring everyone to the table!

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Now it’s your turn. How do you use these convenient little treasures?

[Rita~]

The best way is simple and easy meatball sandwiches.....
Movie Night Meatball Subs
Salsa Meatballs Browned in Garlic Oil
These are made in the oven and yummy
Pesto Meatballs
Norwegian Meatballs With Spiced Cream Sauce
Sweety and Sour meatballs
Swedish Meatballs
Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce
Baked Meatballs

[Sarah_Jayne]

Two recipes of mine that we enjoy which involve precooked meatballs are:



Drunken Meatballs (With Crock Pot Instructions)

and

Speedy Moroccan Meatballs

[lauralie41]

One-Pan Pasta and Meatballs
Meatball and Vegetable Stew
Creamy Meatball Casserole

[Caroline Cooks]

Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

[Sharon123]

Great subject! Meatballs!

Here's what I usually do with them:
Marvelous Meatball Subs

Photo by NCMysteryshopper

[Kittencalskitchen]

Caroline Cooks wrote:
Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

hon thank you for mentioning my Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs ...
and your soup is wonderful!

[lauralie41]

KITTENCAL wrote:

Caroline Cooks wrote:
Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

hon thank you for mentioning my Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs ...
and your soup is wonderful!

Hey hon!!

[Kittencalskitchen]

Lauralie41 wrote:

KITTENCAL wrote:

Caroline Cooks wrote:
Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

hon thank you for mentioning my Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs ...
and your soup is wonderful!

Hey hon!!

hi sweets... how is that beautiful baby Braeden doing?

[lauralie41]

KITTENCAL wrote:

Lauralie41 wrote:

KITTENCAL wrote:

Caroline Cooks wrote:
Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

hon thank you for mentioning my Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs ...
and your soup is wonderful!

Hey hon!!

hi sweets... how is that beautiful baby Braeden doing?

Can you believe 1 year old tomorrow? I havent taken any pictures in such a long time, I need to get with the grandma program. Will have some Sunday to share though, so stay tuned!

Sorry for the hijack Lorraine. Kitz and I can never not talk about Braeden. Back to meatballs!

[Kittencalskitchen]

Lauralie41 wrote:

KITTENCAL wrote:

Lauralie41 wrote:

KITTENCAL wrote:

Caroline Cooks wrote:
Two of my favorite meatball recipes are Swedish Meatballs With Lingonberry or Cranberry Sauce by French Tart and Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs by KittenCal. I even used KitZ recipe, with her permission, to create a wonderful soup--Parmesan Meatball Soup

hon thank you for mentioning my Kittencal's Famous Italian Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatballs ...
and your soup is wonderful!

Hey hon!!

hi sweets... how is that beautiful baby Braeden doing?

Can you believe 1 year old tomorrow? I havent taken any pictures in such a long time, I need to get with the grandma program. Will have some Sunday to share though, so stay tuned!

Sorry for the hijack Lorraine. Kitz and I can never not talk about Braeden. Back to meatballs!

okay send them to me hon!

[lauralie41]

Will do sweetie, you wont believe how big Braeden is.

[lauralie41]

With the holidays around the corner I found some tasty sounding meatball appetizers.

Apricot Salsa Meatballs
Cheater's Delicious Meatball Appetizers
Slow Cooker Sweet & Sour Meatballs
Ruth's Beer Marinated Meatballs
Cocktail Meatballs in BBQ Dip

[Bergy]

Sometimes it is so wonderful to get help (ready made)
Well done - Good ideas