[mac9]

I make my meatballs with stale bread and milk too along with egg, salt , pepper,grated onion, grated garlic and parsley. I make them about 2" in diameter. I also NEVER fry or bake them first as it creates a hard crust. I plop them in the gravy and let them cook there. Also, I used the same size for my lasagna. I just put them in a bowl and mash them with a potato masher. I also cook my sausage the same way. For lasagna, I use a pie crust thingee that you use to cut the butter into the flour as a crusher for the sausage. Then I mix the meatballs and sausage and use it as a layer of the lasagna. The other layer is ricotta cheese mixed with egg and parsley and mozzarella and peccorino romano cheese that I grate myself. Takes a long time, but it is worth it, according to Mr. Mac9.