Crock Pot Meatballs

I've been turning in to quite the little homemaker lately. Usually I leave the cooking to the hubby, but I've been whipping up a bunch of different dishes the past few weeks. Last night's craving of meatballs and my obsession with my crock pot led me to making this awesome, and very filling, dish!

Ingredients

• ½ cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 12 ounces bulk mild Italian sausage
• 1 ¼ cups Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
• ¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 (24 oz) jars pasta sauce (we can our own)

Directions

1. In a large bowl, whisk together milk and eggs until combined. Add ground beef, Italian sausage, breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and garlic powder; I found it easiest to just mix with your fingers until well combined.
2. Heat broiler to high, place on an oven rack about 4 to 5 inches from the broiler. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets with cooking spray or oil. Using your hands, shape (about 40) 1 to 2-inch meatballs from the mixture; place on prepared baking sheets.
3. Broil meatballs 6 to 8 minutes, flipping halfway through, until browned. Transfer to your crock pot - this recipe makes a LOT of meatballs, we only used about half of them and froze the rest and still had plenty left over (feeding a family of 3)
4. Top meatballs evenly with sauce. Cover and cook on low 4 to 5 hours in the crock pot until meatballs are cooked through to an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees F.
5. Serve by themselves, on top of pasta, on split hoagie rolls with cheese for meatball sub sandwiches, or with homemade garlic bread - like we did