Here's a great recipe....tasty, easy, protein-rich, and band friendly.

Meatballs in "wine" sauce

Meatballs:

2 lbs ground chuck

1 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon seasoning salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/4 cup plain bread crumbs

Sauce:

1 bottle chili sauce

1 jar grape jelly

Preheat oven to 350°F. Combine garlic powder, seasoning salt, pepper and bread crumbs with ground chuck. Mix well and make into meatballs. Cook in preheated oven 30-35 mins or until done.

While meatballs are baking, combine 1 bottle of chili sauce and grape jelly in a saucepan and heat until jelly has melted.

When meatballs are done, remove from oven. Drain and transfer meatballs to saucepan and coat well with sauce before serving. Enjoy!

I haven't made "your" recipe in many years ( we loved it) but now make a variation of this which everyone loves.

Sweet and Sour Turkey Meatballs

1.5 lbs. ground turkey (not breast/white meat)

1 egg beaten

2TBS milk

1/4 cup plain bread crumbs

2 TBS grated onion

salt & pepper to taste

Form meatballs (not too large) brown in 1-2 TBS olive oil on all sides. Drain any fat and add to pot of sauce when the sauce is ready and cook for about 30 minutes low flame covered.

Sauce

1 can Ocean Spray Whole Cranberry Sauce

1 can Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce

1 24-28 oz can/jar Marinara sauce ( I use Trader Joe's in the green can)

1/4 cup dark brown sugar (optional but it really makes it delicious)

Cook the above in a cast Iron dutch oven or heavy duty sauce pan. When all the crandberries and sauce is slow boiling and everything is dissolved add the meatballs and cook on a low flame covered. (I use an imersion blender to incorporate the whole berries so it isn't lumpy).

This freezes wonderfully and I cook it frequently. I can only eat about 2-3 meatballs but it is a real treat for me.

Most of my friends who make this use ground meat. My family loves the taste of the turkey and it is healthier and lighter. They are basically Giada Di Laurentis' turkey meatballs which I make all the time.

yummm they both sound great...i am going to print it out and try my cooking skills..my mouth is watering already.

Becky

They definitely sound yummy!

You want to know something strange though (at least my American fiance and I find it strange)? Here in Australia, a marinara sauce is a tomato based sauce with seafood in it (calamari, prawns ( you call them shrimp), oysters etc). Its usually served over Pasta or as a risotto.

And we strangely enough, don't have grape jelly - much to my fiances' disappointment (we call it jam too).

I looked for chili sauce....couldn't find it. Is that with the condiments or with the green chilies and tomato sauces?