I had two packets of the IKEA meatball sauce…
*Archive photo*
…left in the house and when I checked, one had expired in January and upon pressing, it seemed that the powder had gone hard inside so I had no choice but to throw it away. The other one had also expired at the end of May but I decided to just use it anyway and yes, it turned out all right in the end…
Of course, that meant that I would need to cook some meatballs so we could enjoy them together with the sauce.
I chopped one Bombay onion and added some bread crumbs plus a sprinkling of mixed herbs and freshly-ground pepper…
…before mixing that with the minced beef and some chopped spring onions…
…from my garden.
I mixed everything together thoroughly and then I added half an egg, beaten, to act as a binding agent. Having done that, I rolled the mixture into balls…
…and deep-fried them, making sure that the oil was very hot before I put them in and keeping track of the fire, alternating between high and medium to make sure that it would not be too hot while I kept rolling the balls around to brown them nicely on all sides. Then I fished them out and let them stand on some kitchen towel to drain away any excess oil.
I also cooked some mashed potatoes and using the ice cream scoop, I shaped them nicely…
…and put them in the oven so as to have a nice golden tinted top like this…
My girl and the mum were out that day and she texted me to let me know that they would not be back for lunch. Oh well, I guessed I could just have a bit myself and save all the rest for all of us for dinner…and I was already very hungry by then. That was why I did not wait for the mashed potatoes to be ready and just had two scoops like this…
…together with the meatballs…
…plus the gravy and tomato slices by the side. I must have been very hungry by then so my hands were kind of shaky and all the photographs that I took did not come out well except for these few…
…that are actually quite blurry, not all that sharp. Tsk! Tsk!
Yes, we had all the rest for dinner and yes, my girl enjoyed it very very much…so needless to say, I was very pleased with myself. Hehehehehe!!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 