Leftover meatballs in a sub.

The first meal I made once we were back in a functioning kitchen was meatballs with spaghetti. Very simple recipe, not too sure if I have done an entry on it before or not to be honest? Anyway, it is a hugely simple recipe using half ground beef and half ground pork and some cracker or bread crumbs for the meatballs. Some seasoning if you so wish. I shape the meatballs and actually drop them into the sauce so that they cook by gently boiling, rather than frying them first, which I know is a popular method. I just find that this way tends to make them stay really moist. The sauce is super simple, starting with a fried pork chop or any piece of pork with a bone in it for extra flavour and some finely cut onions. Then you add cans of diced or crushed tomatoes and tomato paste and water and let it boil away until you get the consistency you are looking for. I also add about a cup of grated parmesan to the sauce for thickness and flavour (I use the really cheap powdery stuff for this and save the nice stuff to shave on top of it at the end). This also gives it some saltiness and you may even need to add some extra salt as I find tomatoes require it. Drop your meatballs in and if the sauce needs reducing more when they are cooked just take them out, reduce the sauce and add them back in when it's ready. We had it with fresh spaghetti and really nice parm and some wilted spinach, wonderful meal. 

Anyhow, I really wanted to talk about using them up the next day in a different way to how we ate them the first time round. We bought a fresh sub which I sliced in half, added garlic butter to it and toasted it under the grill. I then added some sliced Gouda to it and let it melt under the grill. Slice the meatballs in half and heat them up in some sauce (in the microwave is fast), they will lie nicely in the sub half cut and are easier to eat. Spread them over the sub with a little sauce, top with mixed leaves or rocket or spinach or whatever you have, I used mixed leaves. The lid had also had the garlic butter and cheese treatment too. Eat straight away before it goes soggy. The bread is lovely and soft in the inside but ever so crisp on the outside and a little crunchy on the inside from the grilling. The garlic and cheese compliment the meatballs and the leaves add some freshness. Awesome lunch! Hubby made sure there were more meatballs left so that he could have another sub the next day even before he had finished eating the one in his hands.