{"id":166,"date":"2009-01-23T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-05-25T23:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:35:04","slug":"easy-spaghetti-and-meatballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/01\/easy-spaghetti-and-meatballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy spaghetti and meatballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m a big fan of Jamie Oliver. Not only does he have great taste in food, he&#8217;s passionate about making good food accessible to plebs like you and me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently come across his Ministry of Food series of free videos, where he shows you how to prepare a great dish in almost no time. Watching his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/about\/jamie-oliver-videos\/ministry-of-food-spaghetti\">Spaghetti meatballs<\/a>&#8221; video on the train home this afternoon, I was inspired to cook it up right away. Fortunately, our only other option was leftovers from the mixed grill on Monday night, so Flip was more than amenable.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I had to put my own spin on things, and they turned out awesome:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made the meatballs about two inches across, instead of Jamies &#8220;squashball&#8221; size. This meant that they took longer to cook, but it made them that much juicier.<\/li>\n<li>Added sliced mushrooms to the sauce. This pads out the sauce a bit, and I can&#8217;t imagine having pasta without mushrooms.<\/li>\n<li>Just prior to serving, I took some fresh <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bocconcini\">bocconcini<\/a>, ripped them into rough thirds and tossed them over the pasta. It&#8217;s a very soft cheese and melted into the food almost immediately. Gorgeous!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although it took him less than 9 minutes from end to end, I probably took a total of 30 minutes from end to end, but I had bigger balls and his water was already boiling. Still a pretty good job for a quick weeknight meal.<\/p>\n<p>How would you modify this and make it your own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m a big fan of Jamie Oliver. Not only does he have great taste in food, he&#8217;s passionate about making good food accessible to plebs like you and me. I&#8217;ve recently come across his Ministry of Food series of free videos, where he shows you how to prepare a great dish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[155,151,152,153,157,149,150,148,156,154,424,147],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}