Baked Meatballs

Have you seen our new Youtube series yet? Lunch Ninja started about a week ago but really it’s the result of months of thought, lots of help from pals and almost three years of lunch packing. Laura and I are cooking up lots of other video series but we’re quite smitten with our first. We wanted to come up with a series that would give you guys some ideas for lunches outside of the ham & cheese sandwich box as well, hopefully, a laugh out the endlessness of the task. If you like these videos, we hope you’ll share them and subscribe to our Youtube channel. We promise that so many more fun things will be coming there over the next few months!

This week’s Lunch Ninja features a recipe I’ve been coming back to over and over this year: baked meatballs. I often whip up a batch or two on a Sunday and then get them in the freezer (they keep really well). You can add them to a lunch box, throw them in a pasta sauce or even make a meatball sammie (Holy Yum!). I particularly like the fact that they are far less messy to make than fried meatballs – you just throw away the used parchment, rinse your baking sheet and you’re done. My kids love this kind of finger food in their lunches and I almost never get these coming back to me at the end of the day (what I call success in a school lunch). If you want to see it in action, watch the video!

photo by Maya Visnyei