Tea - Miss Frugal Style.... | The Diary of a Frugal Family

Last week Miss Frugal announced that she was ready to cook us a meal. At first, I wasn’t quite sure whether this was a good idea or not but she wore me down and we agreed that she would cook spaghetti and meatballs – never let it be said that she doesn’t aim high lol.

I’ve never made meatballs before and I wasn’t really sure what to put in them (apart from the meat bit obviously) so I googled for a recipe but there were so many variations that I gave up and decided to let her do what she wanted (obviously keeping the pizza menu to hand just in case).

She squished together some minced beef, some chopped garlic and some chopped onion and then added chilli and basil along with an egg.

After lots of squishing and face pulling she started to make the meatballs which was a long, long process. She made big meatballs, baby meatballs, and even square meatballs – each one had to be looked at and talked about and was then carefully place on to the meatball plate!

She plopped her meatballs into our tomato sauce, ready made I’m afraid but I thought home made would be too ambitous even for little Miss Nigella and we put them in the oven to cook for about twenty minutes.

While they were cooking she cooked the spaghetti and grated some cheese making sure that I opened the oven to check on the meatballs at least once every three minutes as she was bothered that I would let them burn.