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30. Care to share a rough meatball recipe with us.

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 02:39 PM

Jan 2015

I just wonder about how an Italian grandmother would do it.

One thing we do is use an ice cream scooper so the meat balls are approximately the same size. Italian grandmothers don't use an ice cream scooper do they?

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