{"id":1452,"date":"2021-08-16T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:35:41","slug":"an-easy-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2021\/08\/16\/an-easy-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deb at <a href=\"https:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/\">Smitten Kitchen<\/a> has been a cooking and blogging inspiration to me for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/09\/18\/ratatouille\/\">a very long time<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had good results from every recipe of hers that I&#8217;ve tried, and these <a href=\"https:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2016\/02\/everyday-meatballs\/\">easy meatballs<\/a> were no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210816_215549.jpg 1896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My mods were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Sprinkled 1\/4 tsp baking soda over the beef after breaking it up and adding it to the mixing bowl. (ATK trick to promote moisture retention)<\/li><li>Doubled or tripled the garlic in both meatballs and sauce. Because we are garlicky folks here.<\/li><li>Added some dried oregano to the sauce.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We loved these Everyday Meatballs from Smitten Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[122,126,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}