This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Bounty, however all opinions and spaghetti sauce splatters are my own.

Homemade Italian Meatballs

I’ve really been trying hard this past week to watch what I’m eating. I decided to give myself one day on the weekends as my “cheat” day and enjoy something that I love. We decided on spaghetti and meatballs. No argument from the family, either. We all love spaghetti.

These homemade Italian meatballs were sooooo good and really simple to make. I’m going to share the recipe with you. Just prepare spaghetti the way you normally do to pair with these yummy meatballs.

Okay, on to the recipe. You’ll also find a printable recipe down near the bottom of this post. Just print it off and stick back in your recipe box!

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1/4 cup dried Italian breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1/4 tsp. salt

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Spray a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray
• Combine beef, breadcrumbs, cheese, egg and salt in a mixing bowl
• Roll into 1 1/4″ sized balls and place in muffin tins
• Bake until cooked through, about 20 minutes

*About halfway through cooking, turn meatballs in the tins to brown the other side.

** To brown the meatballs really well, turn on the broiler for the last couple of minutes. Watch carefully so you don’t burn them.

(SEEEE the Spaghetti Sauce Splatter?!?!)

We recently remodeled and updated our kitchen. I wanted a white farmhouse kitchen, and that’s what I got. However, the beadboard backsplash around the counter and the panel behind the stove is white and shows ALL kinds of splatters. Spaghetti making the worst messes, naturally. The sauce is yummy, but it’s also messy. When it bubbles, it pops and splatters everywhere. Do you have the same issue?

I also opted for all white dish towels and dish cloths. I just love the way they look in a kitchen. So fresh and crisp. I never even thought how EVERY thing that you clean up stains those pretty white towels and cloths and they get really dingy really fast.

Bounty recently came out with a BRAND new kind of paper towel. It’s Bounty with Dawn, ya’ll. With Dawn. They’re thicker than your average paper towel and you just activate them with water. Then they get all nice and sudsy! I am in LOVE with these. You can rinse and wring these puppies out so you can clean up the whole mess with ONE paper towel instead of 10!

Dawn is awesome at fighting grease so that combined with the thickness of these new Bounty with Dawn paper towels is a double-whammy! The towels were good at breaking up dried on food too. I had the oven on, baking the meatballs and the sauce and spaghetti on the stovetop. The heat from the stove made the sauce dry up and after dinner, the new Bounty with Dawn paper towel wiped it up in just a couple of swipes. I was VERY impressed!

Make sure to check out the new Bounty with Dawn paper towels the next time you’re at Walmart and pick up a roll to try for yourself. I think you’ll love them as much as I do. Keep in mind that these do not replace paper towels for food prep. My husband almost stuck the meatballs out of the oven onto one of these to soak the grease up. I was like, noooooooo!!!! I don’t want my meatballs to taste like Dawn dish soap, hahaha!!!

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What do you typically use to clean up tough messes?