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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rule in our family is that you get a home-cooked meal of your choosing for your birthday.
For ~10 years now, my mother has requested I make shrimp & grits.
DH has asked for Shrimp Diavola 2 years running now.
Apparently I make good shrimp.

The other two that everyone always get excited about are pasta with vodka sauce, and chicken parm meatballs (sometimes I make the vodka sauce and put it on the meatballs).[/quote]

I'm intrigued by your chicken parm meatballs - can you explain what those are/how those come to exist?[/quote]

Sure - they came to exist because in the early pandemic, when we were all doing click and collects for groceries, and stores were sold out of half their products, you accepted the substitutions/took what you got even when it wasn't what you ordered. So, I had a recipe that called for one pound of ground chicken. They gave me four pounds. So, I had to explore other uses for ground chicken.

They are a ground chicken meatball, stuffed with bocconcini cheese (you can use one of the bigger cocktail size balls, or a few of the mini minis), browned on stovetop then put into sauce (usually tomato, rarely homemade, sometimes the vodka sauce which is homemade if we're feeling really extra) and baked in the oven to finish.

Also, I have a lot of other chicken meatball recipes post-pandemic as a result of this, but I sort of feel sorry for the rest of them. No one gets excited for the others like they do for the chicken parm. [/quote]

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