Tomato Soup Pasta with Meatballs

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Meatball ingredients:

• 2 slices bread with the crusts removed
• ½ cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1 onion, chopped
• ¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 1 teaspoon refrigerated minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 lb. ground chuck

(Note: I have tripled the amounts in the listed recipe for the meatball recipe and frozen two groups of twenty meatballs for future use after baking them. That is as much as my blender can handle to hold the non-meat ingredients. Saves time and mess in the future.)

Sauce ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cans of tomato soup
• 2 soup cans water
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon parsley
• ½ teaspoon dried basil
• ½ teaspoon sage
• ½ teaspoon thyme
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

• Your favorite pasta

1. Tear bread into cubes and place in blender
2. Add milk, egg, and chopped onion.
3. Blend 30 seconds.
4. Place in mixing bowl.
5. Add Parmesan, salt, pepper, minced garlic, and dried parsley.
6. Stir.
7. Add ground beef and mix but don't overly do so.
8. Scoop mixture into meatballs with a medium scoop. Spray a baking dish with non-stick spray.
9. Bake meatballs in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes or until brown but not crusty.

In the meantime, prepare the sauce:

1. Saute the onion in a large skillet in the olive oil.
2. Add the two cans of soup and water.
3. Add the lemon juice, salt, parsley, basil, sage, thyme, and cayenne pepper.
4. Cook under medium-low heat, stirring frequently to keep it from burning.
5. When meatballs are brown, remove them from the oven, and add to the sauce.
6. Continue cooking about ½ hour.

Pasta:

1. Boil 13 ounces of pasta in salted water.
2. Drain pasta.
3. Plate.
4. Add sauce.
5. Serve and enjoy.