Guilty Pleasures: FarmRich Meatballs
June 15, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under 30 Minutes or Less
It has been awhile since we did the whole guilty pleasures thing. 
It is hard because, although I get a lot of companies interested in sending me things not many of those things are products that I would pass on to you. And of the ones that I get not all of them are worthy of the space to review!
A few weeks ago a representative of FarmRich emailed me to see if I would be interested in a cookbook and a sample of meatballs. Sure!
Meatballs are great homemade, but if you can get good ones that are frozen they can be a great last minute meal. I decided to make the Saucy Meatball Grinders from the cookbook, which is called 101 Things to Do with Meatballs. I did get permission to give the recipe in its’ entire form, so I made it exactly from the book
Saucy Meatball Grinders
First of all, since the meatballs were all ready done it was a simple and very fast meal.The meatballs were a nice size and they were pretty good. Not at all greasy and didn’t have that funny texture that some frozen meatballs do.
Still Frozen
The sandwiches were wonderful, and the entire meal, for 16 people by the way, was done in under 30 minutes. I loved it. Everyone loved these meatball sandwiches and thought the meatballs were good.
Saucy Meatball Grinders
- 14 oz pizza sauce (I used Newmans Own Sockarooni)
- 1/4 cup apple jelly
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (I omitted)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 30 FarmRich frozen meatballs
- 6 hoagie rolls, split
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- Combine all sauce ingredients in a pan. Warm up, stirring, until smooth and the sauce begins to simmer.
- Carefully add meatballs.
- Cover and simmer about 20 minutes, or until meatballs are heated through.
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Place 5 meatballs in each roll. Spoon sauce over and sprinkle on cheese.
- Heat until the cheese is melted.
Serves 6
I tripled the recipe, obviously. Personally, I love homemade meatballs but I will keep a bag of these on hand for those times when I need an “instant” meal.
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What a great way to feed a crowd! I haven’t made meatball subs in a long long time! Gotta do it soon! Maybe when the girls are here.
One of our favorites, Jenn.
One of a working mom’s best friend’s is frozen meatballs. I don’t know how many times I’ve sent meatballs in a crockpot with some sauce, tomatoes, peppers and onions, and a bag of mozzerella cheese to school. The teacher would plug it in and save it for the after school event for a really nice hot treat.