Spaghetti Squash&Spicy Meat-a-Ballz

Comfort food.  Who the hell doesn't crave some down home love on a plate.  Not to stereotype, but food that one may find comforting doesn't typically coincide with food we also find healthy.  The solution?  Me.  It's me you guys.  Me...and this bomb AF recipe for Paleo spaghetti&meatballs. This recipe had more components than most so it's your lucky day visually imaginatively impaired.  Come follow me on a guided visual journey to comfort food flavor town. 

Spaghetti Squash&Spicy Meat-a-Ballz

PREP TIME: 25 Minutes | COOK TIME: 1 Hour 15 Minutes | SERVES: 6 Human Individuals

Squash&Sauce

• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 3 lb. spaghetti squash, halved lengthwise&seeded (give it your all, these suckers are hard to crack)
• salt and crushed black pepper to please your taste buds
• 3/4 cup minced yellow onion
• 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
• 1 sm. carrot, chopped into rabbit food
• 1 stalk celery, chop, chop, chop
• 1 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes
• 1 tbsp. tomato paste
• 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce
• 1/2 tsp. oregano kush

Ballz

• 1 lb. grass-fed, organic, sunbathed, pet 3 times per day beef 
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 1 tbsp. wor-worcesh-worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp. tomato paste
• 1/2 tsp. salt 
• pinch ground black pepper 
• pinch cayenne pepper, caliente! 
• 5 cloves garlic, mince that shit
• 1 large pre-bird, a.k.a egg 

Shall We Begin?

1. Place oven rack in the middle of that hot box and set your oven to 400 degrees F.

2. Massage 1/2 tbsp. olive oil gently, tenderly, onto each cut-side of the squash and shower those suckers with salt and pepper.  Place squash cut side up on a baking sheet and roast until fork tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour.  

3. Cool squash for at least 10 minutes so you don't burn your fingerprints off like an idiot.  Scrape lengthwise along the flesh with a small fork, pulling long strands like Ariel stroking her Crayola red mermaid hair.  

4. While the squash cooks in the hot box, make that zesty sauce.  Heat the remaining tbsp. of oil in a large non-stick sauce pan set over medium heat.  Add the ingredients that make you cry, (onions&garlic) and sauté until those tear jerkers are translucent, 3 to 4 minutes.  Add the carrots and celery and sauté another 5 minutes.   

5. Stir in all tomato products and oregano.  Add a dash of salt and a sprinkle of pepper. Cover the pot, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for a whopping 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Ready to Multitask?

6. It's meatball time, finally!  Combine beef, flour, worcestershire, and all the other ball ingredients in a large bowl.  Put those digits to work and mix that shit until blended.  

7. Form that hunk of beef into balls the size of walnuts.  Place the meatballs in the sauce, return heat to medium, and let those balls bathe in sauce until firm to the touch and cooked through, about 15 minutes.  

8. Place all ingredients together and try to make it as beautiful as mine, go ahead, I dare you.