4 uncle meatball Recipes

ground meat (choose chicken for lighter diets, beef or a beef pork mixture for hearty sauces), diced onions, diced bell pepper (any color is fine , i prefer red as it is sweeter than green normally), garlic cloves, crushed and diced to taste (make sure you can smell the garlic over the onions when cooking, if you can tsp add more), extra virgin olive oil, hunts tomato paste, hunts tomato puree, dried oregano, dried parsley, basil, sea salt, black pepper, red cayenne pepper, bay leaves, fresh mushrooms (optional), sausage (optional), meatballs (use your favorite recipe ) (optional)

lean ground beef, ground pork loin, italian seasoned breadcrumbs (i use uncle bill s recipe, except instead of dry parsley i like fresh), eggs, milk, freshly grated parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, chopped very fine, garlic, freshly ground nutmeg, pine nuts (optional), salt & freshly ground black pepper

butter, onion, coarsely chopped, chopped garlic, converted white rice (uncle ben s is the best for this!), good quality chicken broth (i use my homemade broth recipe) or 4 1/2 cups turkey broth (i use my homemade broth recipe), fresh ground black pepper (lots!), salt, prepared and cooked meatballs (or as many as desired)