Friday Favorite...Make Ahead Turkey Meatballs for Three Different Meals!

Is it a crazy time of year at your house? It is at mine! Only two of my four kids are involved in sports, but we have something almost every night. Of course, practices and games are usually around dinner time.

Dinner needs to be quick, so I can make it right after school while I help the kids with their homework. Or needs to be something that I can make in advance. Sometimes it needs to be portable too and easy to eat in the car when we have to drive 20 minutes to practice.

One of my most favorite meals is these turkey meatballs.

They are made with extra lean ground turkey that I buy at Sam's Club and they are stuffed full with veggies, but my kids haven't ever noticed. The seasonings are delicious! I seriously, love making these meatballs because they smell so good even when they're raw!

I usually make five pounds of ground turkey into meatballs and bake them. Then I freeze them in ziploc bags and use them for several different meals. I love to make these Turkey Meatball Sandwiches with them.

Just spread a little spaghetti sauce on the bun, chop up the meatballs and lay them on the sauce, top with cheese and broil until the cheese is melted. Yum! Find the recipe here.

Another favorite is Sweet and Sour Meatballs.

Just mix up an easy sweet and sour sauce of cranberry sauce, chili sauce and ketchup and warm up on the stove or even in the crockpot. Serve over rice (which I love to make in my rice cooker, because it has a timer and can start cooking whenever I need it to).

Another option is to throw these meatballs in your spaghetti for easy "Spaghetti and Meatballs".

I'll be sharing with you my other favorite quick and easy dinners that we'll be eating during this crazy time of year.

What are your quick and easy favorites?

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

Chicken Angelo

Don't forget to enter the Whirley Pop giveaway . It ends tomorrow! Am I the only person that asks their friends what they're making for dinner all the time? That's kind of why I started this blog, because I want to know what my friends are making for dinner. The other day I asked my friend, Juli (who is great cook), what she was making for dinner. She told me she was making Chicken Angelo. Then she told me what's in it. I knew I had to try it too because she has some picky eaters at her house like I do. I figured if they'll eat it then maybe it was worth a try at my house. This Chicken Angelo pasta has my favorite things, artichoke hearts and mushrooms in it. But don't be fooled into thinking that my family likes these things too. Because they don't. They won't touch an artichoke or mushroom with a ten foot pole. That being said, my family loved this pasta dish. They even gave me the go ahead to make it again. They loved the ch

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