We will be having porcupine meatballs, mashed potatoes, and peas.
I got smart this last time. I have always cooked them on the stove, and a lot of times they fell apart (I just turned it into meat sauce when they did that). I had a little over 3 pounds of ground beef that I wanted to make into meatballs the other day, so I mixed it all up (meat, uncooked rice, chopped onions, 3 eggs), formed the meatballs (trying to keep them uniform size, but not thinking about how many it would make), and put them on my big cookie sheet. Without even trying I ended up with exactly 40 meatballs, and they fit perfectly on the cookie sheet! I baked them a hair over 20 minutes at 400 degrees F. I put some of them into a skillet with canned tomatoes and parsley and cooked until the tomatoes broke down a little and were heated through. I had never baked my porcupine meatballs before, but that is how I will always do them. I froze the rest of them in meal-sized batches.