Pasta with Homemade Tomato Sauce and Meatballs

Pasta with Homemade Tomato Sauce and Meatballs
Serves 4
Ingredients

• about 8 oz of pasta
• 2 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes
• 1 6 oz can of tomatoe paste
• 2 onions
• 5 garlic cloves
• 2 tsbp of vegetable oil
• 1 slice of bread, crumbled
• 1 egg
• 12-16 oz of ground beef
• oregano, basil, or Italian seasoning
• salt and pepper

1. Chop the onions and garlic.
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan and add 3/4 of the onions and 1/2 of the garlic, cooking until tender.
3. Add the diced tomatoes and tomato pasta and cover, simmering for 30 minutes.
4. While the sauce is cooking, mix the remaining onion and garlic with the bread crumbles, egg and beef. Form into 24-26 golf ball sized meatballs.
5. Cook the meatballs on a cookie sheet on 350F for 20 minutes.
6. Cook the pasta according to the instructions.
7. Drain the pasta and cover with the sauce and meatballs, seasoning liberally with the spices.

Modified from http://www.bhg.com/recipe/pasta/spaghetti-sauce/

The site that I got this recipe from has a bunch of variations that are worth checking out. I wanted to make meatballs with onion and garlic, though, and this was a good one. The meatballs taste a lot like meatloaf, which makes sense because my own meatloaf recipe looks a lot like the recipe for the meatballs. 

I think next time I'll make more pasta and use actual bread slices instead of really hard French bread.

Pasta, 1/2 of a box at $1.09/box = $0.55 at Fred Meyer

2 onions: $1.18 at Fred Meyer

Garlic, 1/2 bulb at $0.33/bulb = $0.17 st Fred Meyer

2 cans of diced tomatoes: $1.20 at Fred Meyer

1 can of tomato paste: $0.85 at Fred Meyer

1 lb of ground beef: $5.08 at Fred Meyer

1 egg of 12 at $4.18/carton = $0.35 at Fred Meyer

Vegetable Oil, about $0.10

Total Cost: $9.48 for 4 servings or $2.37 per serving