Mommy Meatball

04/23/2023

If you're looking for a super simple, comforting, no-frills bowl of Italian pasta, you've come to the right place. And if you're feeling adventurous, it's also a great jumping-off point to make your own version of this classic dish!

04/16/2023

Craving something a little more creative than your average Buffalo wings? Enter: Buffalo chicken meatballs. Ready in just 30 minutes, these meatballs are a flavor-packed app you can have ready in no time, so you don't have to miss any of the big game

04/09/2023

If you find yourself in the Netherlands on a Wednesday, you might hear someone say Woensdag, gehaktdag, meaning “Wednesday, meatball day.” It’s up to you whether that refers to the food or the hilarious 1979 Bill Murray classic of the same name—the ideal entertainment to watch while cooking a meatball recipe of your choice.

04/02/2023

Polish meatballs come in a variety of styles, most popularly equipped with a sauce of wild mushrooms. There are running jokes about the industrially-produced fried mielony, with an array of unmentionable ingredients thought to be hidden inside to cut corners.

03/26/2023

Albondigas started as a Berber dish brought to Spain during its period as an Islamic caliphate. Their name derives from the Arabic al-bunuq, which means “hazelnut” but describes the shape of the meat. Romanian Romanian meatballs, also popular in neighboring Moldova, are made with ground pork, watered-down mashed potatoes and spices. Called chiftele, you can also find a version made with rice as well, floating in a soup called ciorba de perisoare.

03/19/2023

Kottbullar, popularized by Ikea, flesh out their ground meat with bread soaked in milk and cream, and are served with potatoes, a brown gravy and a sauce made with lingonberries. Modest variants may be found throughout Scandinavia. Legend has it that the meatball is likewise a Turkish invention, as 18th century Swedish monarch Charles XII spent time in exile in Istanbul and brought back a tasty reminder of his sojourn there. In lands where meat may have been scarce or pricy, adding breadcrumbs to make the meat more of a meal was a wise, frugal and delicious option.

03/16/2023

03/12/2023

The Turks spread their delicacies throughout the Balkans during the Ottoman sprawl, and many nations have them to thank for a variety of meatballian dishes in the kofta family. A wide variety of rolled, ground meaty delicacies come from Turkish cuisine, including shish (the meat is elongated and wrapped around a skewer to grill over coals, and spiced with mint and parsley); tire (very thin skewers of ground meat served with a tomato butter sauce).

03/06/2023

Well, I do. I love spaghetti and meatballs, but this is a hybrid of several Italian dishes, and exists only in red-check-tablecloth “red sauce joints,” as Italian-American eateries are called. The dish is basically spaghetti alla Bolognese, with a meat sauce, but the meat has been coagulated into balls which you can then happily disassemble into your pasta. I like it better than alle Bolognese, perhaps because of the crisp caramelized hull of the meatball, which has a lovely bite to it that the soft ground meat of Bolognese sauce does not.