It is getting to be that time of the year…..soup.  I could eat soup everyday.  I eat soup in Mexico for lunch when it is 109 degrees.  If I could eat soup for every meal, I probably would.

Soup is amazing but it needs a little something else to go with it.  My standard go to is a good artisan french bread topped with some smart balance, garlic salt and munster cheese.  Throw this under the broiler and it is the perfect side to any soup, chili or stew.  (Although, I have to digress about stew.  I don’t like this word.  It reminds me of some neanderthal type dish made with chunks of hairy boar and full size carrots).

So, I made some soup for dinner, invited the world’s best neighbors over and decided we needed to paint pumpkins and have something to go along with our soup.  Meatball sandwiches on a stick.  Say what?  Yes.  Meatball sandwiches on a stick.  So good.  So easy.  (I tried to remember to snap a few pics but I was busy between the dance party in my kitchen and cleaning glitter and paint off of my giant baby).

Here is what you need:

And some cheese….whatever kind you have.  We live and die by Munster in our house so it is our go to cheese for grilled cheese, quesadillas, garlic cheese bread etc.  Make sure you make buy the party size meatballs.  (They are in the freezer section). They come 64 in a bag.  Grab some wooden skewers and you are ready to roll.

See what you do there?  Thaw the meatballs and then wrap the breadstick around it and skewer it with the….well, the skewer.  Funny how that works.  Then brush them with a little bit of butter or olive oil and sprinkle with garlic salt and oregano.  Then we added our standard slice of Munster and threw it in the oven at 390 for about 10 minutes.  Just freeball it as I really did not use the timer.

Then server them with dipping sauce – whatever floats your boat….marinara, ranch, gardinaira. (How in God’s name do you spell that word?)

So this is what you end up with……this was the last guy standing.  I forgot to take a photo when they came out of the oven, but you get the jist.  They come together in about 12 minutes, bake for about 10 and wah-lah.  Something fun to serve with soup other than garlic bread.  The kids think they are super cool and so do I.

So just make these…..I promise you will like them.  I do.

Also, invite your neighbors over and have a dance party….and paint pumpkins.  Why not?  

Oh yeah, have a glass of wine too.  That helps with the clean-up.