Recipes from Home: Meatballs & Spaghetti Sauce

Brian Vetter, executive chef, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, says: I learned to cook from my father. I remember spending time in the kitchen on this spaghetti sauce and meatballs recipe. I would mix this with my hands and help him roll the meatballs. He usually took care of every meal—breakfast, lunch and dinner—throughout my childhood and all special events we had. I truly believe my father wanted me to mix the meatballs with my hands because he didn't want to, because of the extreme cold of the eggs, meat and milk in the product.