Sharing Recipes--Italian Meatballs

This is one of my mother's foolproof recipes. I prefer to use lean ground beef, but any combination of veal, pork, and regular beef will work. I usually eat the meatballs with pasta, but they can be thrown into a soup, or eaten on their own with an accompanying side dish or salad.

Ingredients

1 kilogram lean ground beef
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 tsp parsley
1/2 cup romano cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
2 slices of bread
1/2 cup milk
1 garlic clove, minced
1 onion, chopped

Procedure

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Grease a large baking sheet (or two) with olive oil.
• Tear bread into pieces and soak in milk.
• Combine the remaining ingredients in a large bowl.
• Add the milk-soaked bread.
  
• If the mixture is soft, add more bread crumbs.
• If the mixture is hard, add an extra egg.
• Form into balls.
• Place 1" apart on the baking sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes on each side.
  

Makes 35 to 40 meatballs.