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Tuesday I picked up my 40 lb box of ground beef from Zaycon and needed to prep it. One of my favorite things to have ready in the freezer are homemade meatballs. I don’t particularly like making them, but I love having them all ready for meals. So I just remind myself of that. I made and froze 208 meatballs!! Holy cow.

Here is how I like to do homemade meatballs!

HOMEMADE MEATBALLS
1 1/2 lbs lean hamburger
3/4 cup quick oats
1 egg
1/4 cup finely diced onion
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground pepper (use another teaspoon of pepper if you love pepper flavor)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2 Tbsp ketchup
1 Tbsp dry parsley

Put all ingredients into a large bowl (I love using glass bowls as they clean easily from all the germs from raw meat).

Mix all together WELL. Use your hands to make sure it is well-incorporated. Make sure you take any rings off. 🙂 It will look like this:

Now, form the meat mixture into balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with foil (it makes clean up a breeze! Bake at 400 for about 18 minutes, shaking or stirring occasionally.

When they are done cooking, they look like this, and smell soooo good!

Then what I like to do is freeze them. I have a Foodsaver which is fantastic. It is totally worth the investment if you like to freeze foods. It really does help keep foods fresher longer! All the air is sucked out so there will be no freezer burn. Here are all the meatballs I froze yesterday.

I also cooked about 10 lbs into regular ground beef to use later in recipes. I froze that in Foodsaver bags too. After cooking 20 pounds of meat today, I still have 20 more pounds to cook up. Wish me luck!

Hooray! Groundhog Day is coming! I know it may seem strange to some of you, but this is a holiday I enjoy celebrating. If you want to have a nice celebration of this unusual holiday, here are some ideas I’ve come across over the years.
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MENU – You can have meatballs for dinner. You know – “ground hog.” I know, I know… but it is kinda funny, right?

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THE DESSERT – Just make and frost a cake and then sprinkle cookie crumbs on top (for the dirt). You can make a paper groundhog using this cute pattern (or use google images to find another that you like) and then just let a child color him, glue him to a popsicle stick and stick him in your cake. You could do cupcakes and let each child color their own groundhog! There is also this really cute cupcake idea from Family Fun.

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DRESS CODE – Have each person dress for their personal prediction. If they think it will be six more weeks of winter, have them dress bundled up for winter and if they think it will be an early spring, have them dress with sunglasses and beach attire. They don’t have to agree with the groundhog!

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ENTERTAINMENT – And now we come to the main reason I celebrate Groundhog Day. I LOVE the movie! Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray is one of my favorite movies. It’s available from Amazon Instant Video! We watch it every year.

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Get more information about Groundhog Day here – and be sure to read Phil’s prognostication to your party guests!

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My husband says he feels like he’s stuck in some sort of Groundhog Day Party Loop. He could be right!

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