The weather forecast for today is going to be cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Yes I have another meatball recipe for you today with this Italian Turkey & Pinenut Meatballs with Zughetti. Anyone seen the movie Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs? No neither have I or if I have I can’t remember it exactly. I have a little secret to admit… I am a sucker for kid’s movies. Now that I have kids I don’t have an excuse to hide my sad little secret. Mind you J.D would certainly take advantage of watching as much TV as possible if I let him.

I was at the library the other day and saw Frozen sitting on the shelf along with Cars and the Gruffalo.  J.D was all for getting Cars and the Gruffalo out but needed a little convincing on Frozen. It went something like this “Oh look here is some DVD’s you might like bud”. “What’s that mummy?” he said as I pull out the DVD’s and show him Cars and Gruffalo. He is instantly drawn to the cover of Cars with its gleaming red race car on the front. “Oh what about this one too?” I say as I shove Frozen in front of his face. “This one looks really good too”. He gently pushes Frozen away with one hand, turns his back on me and continues to be enthralled with Cars. “Oh well I’ll just pop it in the bag for you to watch” (i.e. Mum to watch) I say loudly, my eyes darting around to anyone watching the exchange. As I write this it’s still sitting in the library bag as I can’t convince him to watch it. I even tried to force him to watch it one day. Sad I know. It was you can watch this DVD or go and play outside kind of arrangement. For my TV loving boy it was watch whatever was on TV that day. So I popped it into the DVD player and fumbled my way through the menu and eventually got it to play. Mum settled in on the couch for a bit of relax time and we got 5 minutes into the movie before J.D pipes up. “I don’t yike this mummy”. “It’s scarewee”. Admittedly the first bit was pretty dark and ominous so being the good parent I am I say, “It’s alright bud it’s only a movie, and it’s not real”. Parenting Fail. Not two minutes after I said that the DVD stopped and wouldn’t go any further. I discovered several deep scratches on the CD from too many little girls pawing at it desperate for Elsa to sing “Let it go”. I took this as a sign and with a sigh of regret I let J.D off the hook and popped Cars in for him to watch for the thousandth time. I gave up and went and made meatballs for dinner.

I had spaghetti on the menu this particular day and for the life of me I couldn’t stomach another plate of normal spaghetti. I blame my pregnancy with Little Miss for this.  So I changed up the protein from beef mince to turkey mince, made it into pinenut spiked meatballs.  I seemed to have meatballs on the brain over this past month as you can see with these Sweet & Sour Meatballs.I then whipped up this divine napoletana sauce to drench the oven baked meatballs in. Don't be afraid to use a different type of mince if turkey isn't your thing. Pork, beef or chicken would work in this recipe without any qualms.