Angel hair and meatballs

This was really supposed to be Spaghetti and Meatballs, but I didn't have any spaghetti.  I asked Mike if he wanted Angel Hair or Fettuccine and he said "Angel Hair".  All of these long, thin pastas are the same to me anyway.

I've always wanted to try to make my own meatballs.  The ones in the package from Costco are OK, but I've never really liked them that much.  The ones that I've had at restaurants are usually really good.  The Aidells brand meatballs that are at Costco sometimes are good, but there are only so many meatballs you can eat...  Most of the meatball recipes which I found online use a mix of ground beef, pork and lamb.  I didn't really want to buy that much meat just to make meatballs, especially since I don't know how the dish will turn out.

Comfort Food Makeovers (this is starting to become one of my favorite cookbooks!) had a recipe for Spaghetti and Meatballs that uses ground turkey.  I like to use ground turkey because it's healthier, and I don't mind buying lots of it since it can use it in various dishes.  It's much healthier than ground beef, and for some reason ground pork just seems to be more expensive, though ground turkey can be expensive when not on sale.

Mike actually helped make the meatballs, but then he had to do something else, so I had to do the rest of the recipe.  It actually wasn't hard to make.  The only problem is that I need bigger pots and pans.  I didn't have a 12 inch skillet and somehow Mike made more than the 12 meatballs which the recipe said to make, so I had to cook the meatball in batches.  I'm not sure if he used more meat than the recipe called for, or if he just made them the wrong size.  The first meatball he made was definitely not 1 1/2 inches.

Also, the recipe uses 3 cans of diced tomatoes.  2 cans are pureed in a food processor so that there are no tomato chunks (I used my Vitamix of course) and one is left alone so that the sauce will have tomato chunks.  When Mike brought home his lunch container, I noticed that he had picked out all of the tomato chunks.  Sigh.  If I'd known, I would've just pureed all 3 cans instead of wasting all of those good tomatoes!