Italian Style Spaghetti

1. Make meatballs: Preheat oven to 450°. Put eggs in a nmedium sized bowl and beat with a fork. Add milk and bread, mix well. Set aside and let stand 5 min.

2. Add ground beef, 1/2 cup onion, parsley, 1 clove garlic, salt and pepper to bread mixture. using hands, mix until well blended. Shape meat mixture into 24 meatballs about 1 1/2 inch in diameter. Place in well-greased shallow baking pan.

3. Place pan of meatballs in preheated oven on center rac. Do not cover. Bake for 30 minutes. While meatballs bake, prepare sauce. Put oil in a 4 to 5 quart Dutch oven and heat over moderately high heat. Add 1/2 cup onion and 2 cloves garlis and suaute until golden.

4. Add sugar, salt, basil, fennel, pepper, tomatoes and tomatoe paste to sauted onion garlic mixture in Dutch oven. Pour in 1/2 cup water, mix mashing tomatoes with the back of a large wooden spoon. Bring to boil ove rhigh heat, reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 1/2 hour/

5. Remove meatballs from oven and gently transfer to simmering sauce. Cover Dutch oven and simmer for 60 minutes , stirring occasionally. This much can be completed up to 2 days ahead. In fact, the sauce tastes better.

6. Just before serving cook spaghetti. Drain. Place spaghetti on serving platter, top with meatballs and sauce. Sprinkle with cheese and serve.