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Great tasting meatballs.

I make some really awesome meatballs, and they are really hard to screw up, but even after telling my neighbor how to make them step by step, she messed hers up.
So I'm writing them down for her, which I had not done, just the verbal recipe and directions, and I figured I'd share it with you too.

What you need:
1- 80 count regular flavor frozen meatballs (Armour makes a great product)
1- 12 ounce jar of Concord Grape jelly
1- 18 ounce bottle of original flavor BBQ sauce
1- crockpot or as some people call them, slow cooker
A package of hoagie rolls is optional, we usually just eat them out of a bowl, or get toothpicks and serve them as hors d' oeuvres at a party.
Cheese slices on the hoagies is also optional.

Take the jar of jelly and dump it in the pot, dump in the BBQ sauce and stir the two together, breaking any big clumps of jelly.
Add in the frozen meatballs, and stir them gently to coat with the sauce.
Set your crockpot on low for 6 hours.
Stir gently once an hour during the 6 hours.
Done!

Most people will tell you to not open and stir the contents of your crockpot during cooking, because it lets out the heat.
But with this jelly/BBQ sauce mixture, if you don't stir them at least once every hour to an hour and a half, the meatballs will A) not get all saucy, and B) the meatballs on the bottom will burn.
That's what happened with my neighbors meatballs.
All of the ones on the bottom burned, along with most of the sauce from the bottom, and this gave the flavor a really nasty aftertaste.

Mark and Sebastian can eat these like they've never eaten anything in their whole lives.
They go from making a hoagie, to just grabbing a bowl full of them until the pot is empty.
I try to get in there and get myself some, and set aside a bunch for some leftovers, but I have to do it quickly or the bottomless pit teens will devour them all.

Do you have an awesome and easy meatball recipe?
Post it on your blog or tell me it in my comments.
I'm always up for new and tasty recipes!

Comments

I'd been craving meatballs since Mike told me about the meatball sub he had for lunch yesterday.

That is a good recipe. I once worked with a lady who made meatballs like that; she brought them to a potluck party and they disappeared very quickly. She'd given me the recipe, but I lost it...good to have it again. Thanks for posting it.