spaghetti and meatballs – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg spaghetti and meatballs – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Classic Italian Beef Meatballs http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/classic-italian-meatballs/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/classic-italian-meatballs/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=316 There’s a fantastic restaurant in the River North neighborhood of Chicago called J. Rocco Italian Table. Known for it’s unassuming “honest Italian food” the menu offers everything you would expect from a neighborhood Italian eatery in one of the best culinary cities in the United States. Oh, yes, I’m biased. At J. Rocco Italian Table, your meal kicks off with a heaping platter of fresh bread and top notch olive oil — the kind you would never use for cooking because it tastes so good on its own. There are enough starter courses to assemble a meal on its own, the grilled octopus with light lemon dressing, a round, plump scallop in pesto and an ample serving of Michigan burrata with “Mom’s Gravy” (the chef’s tomato sauce). Pizzas with honey-wheat crusts and toppings like duck-sausage are grilled and the pastas are flavorful and perfectly cooked. The star of the show here though, are the meatballs, available in five varieties, including  lamb meatballs with mint and a jolt of chili,  lighter-than-air shrimp meatballs in lemon-butter sauce, chicken meatballs in a creamy roasted red pepper sauce, beef meatballs served “Calabrese style” in a rich, hearty au jus and pork meatballs, which have […]

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