Spaghetti and Meatballs

I have been making my own pasta sauce for a few years and I have recently started making my own pasta.  Mostly my pasta making attempts have been noodles and fettuccine noodles.  Tonight I decided to put these two together and make homemade spaghetti noodles with my homemade sauce with meatballs.

I made Mark Bittman's egg pasta dough from How to Cook Everything using my food processor to make the dough and my Kitchenaid mixer pasta attachment to form the spaghetti noodles.  The first thing I noticed when the spaghetti noodles came out of the mixer is that they instantly stuck together. Splitting them apart was like separating the silver tinsel my mother used to put on our family Christmas tree every year!  Overall, it didn't turn out too bad.

While the pasta dried and the sauce simmered, I made Caprese salad bites as an appetizer.  I took cherry tomatoes from Bob's garden and fresh basil from my

herb garden. I alternated them with mozzarella cubes on long toothpicks.  Then I drizzled them with Tuscan Olive Oil. Bob really enjoyed those! 

I scooped the pasta into bowls and topped each with a few meatballs and some sauce.  A sprinkling of parmesan cheese and dinner was served!  

Delicious!