But this is a good one. Remember the 101 Things to Do with Meatballs and Farm Rich review a did a month or so ago?

You don’t? Man, how quickly they forget. This one.

Well they sent me FOUR books and FOUR coupons for free product to give away. That means you have ..umm..alot of chances to win. You get an entry for each of the following:

• Leave a comment
• Blog it (leave a comment telling me you did) linking back to this post
• twitter it (leave a comment telling me you did) linking to this post
• Follow me on twitter (@MaryeAudet) and leave a comment telling me you did

So that is 16 chances to win, since there are 4 cookbooks. Each cookbook will be sent out with a coupon so you can try your first recipe for almost free. Lets keep this open until 8 p.m. CST  Tuesday July 14, 2009. I will announce the winner by Wednesday July 15 at noon, CST. Sorry, since the postage is my dime this is only open to US residents.

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Ready……Set……Go…….

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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

1. Combine all sauce ingredients in a pan. Warm up, stirring, until smooth and the sauce begins to simmer.
2. Carefully add meatballs.
3. Cover and simmer about 20 minutes, or until meatballs are heated through.
4. Preheat oven to 375F
5. Place 5 meatballs in each roll. Spoon sauce over and sprinkle on cheese.
6. 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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Farm Rich is a company that specializes in frozen items such as appetizers, snacks, and finger foods.  They contacted me and offered to send me some product samples and I swear about two days later the box came in the mail, or UPS, or Pony Express, or however they sent it. Point is, it got here fast.

They sent me two HUGE boxes of product.  I guess they had done their homework and knew that I had to feed an army.  I will say this, the company is generous.

Farm Rich is coming out with two new products next month.  Chicken and cheese quesadillas and a chicken panini with grilled artichoke pesto; and they send me boxes of each.

On the boxes it says that the product can be microwaved so I took one panini and one quesadilla out to microwave them

This is what I got:

Don’t try this at home, kids.  Seriously?  It only takes about 20 minutes to bake the things in the oven.  Don’t microwave them.  They come out soggy and chewy.

BUT….Bake them and you end up with a really good snack/lunch/light dinner item.

That is the chicken panini with the artichoke pesto.  Again, very good when baked.  Both items had a generous amount of cheese and chicken, and other ingredients so you weren’t just biting into dough.  The crust was flavorful, not too salty, and had a nice texture.  The family was pretty equally divided on which of the two was best, with slightly more of my family liking the quesadillas.

The quesadillas do have some heat to them, and the jalapenos are pretty generously sprinkled in there.  These would work great for the Super Bowl table, a quick lunch with a soup or salad, or just about anything you wanted.

I liked them and I would buy them.  On a scale of 1-10 I give them a 7.  Why a 7?  Because the box says you can microwave them and if you do you will be disappointed.  Those people who don’t read Baking Delights (can you imagine that there ARE people who don’t?)  will not know that microwaving these is a mistake.

Check out the Farm Rich Website for coupons and more information.

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