Where my fellow cooks at???

[eddysnake]

My wife does the cooking and while I enjoy baking, I've now taken over Sunday dinners. I made meatballs yesterday for the first time in the crockpot for hoagies and they were pretty damn fun to make. Does anyone have a good homemade recipe for meatballs?

[tifosi77]

Ideally, imo, a meatball should be 40% fat and have some breadcumbs as filler. (They're essentially poor people food, so the idea of an 8-oz meatball that is actually all meat is kind of anathema)

Recipes would depend on the application. For a sub, or standalone with marinara sauce, I'd be heavy on herbage. As standalone with some other accompaniment I'd look towards more aromatic ingredients like ginger.

One of my all-time favorite food truck items are the pork meatballs with Romesco sauce from the Komodo truck..... and tomorrow is Komodo Tuesday!

[shmenguin]

turkey meatball with thanksgiving stuffing ingredients in it. serve with cranberry sauce. omnomnom

[columbia]

I like meatballs which are a beef & pork combo....no idea what the ratio is.

[skullman80]

Anything turkey besides you know turkey you eat on thanksgiving is blah. Turkey burgers blah.. turkey meatballs .. blah. Give me beef!

[mac5155]

My grandmother's "secret ingredient" for her meatballs is wet bread crumbs.

[BigMcK]

turkey meatball with thanksgiving stuffing ingredients in it. serve with cranberry sauce. omnomnom

As a person that eats only fish and fowl, I am going to have to try this.

Over the summer I was making crazy turkey meatloaf combos and putting them in the smoker. Smoke ring on turkey meatloaf gets cred from those that know it isn't undercooked meat.

[count2infinity]

We just made meatballs last night. Used Alton Brown's recipe:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alto ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Replaced the pork with turkey. They are delicious.

[tifosi77]

The super cool modernist cooking site I frequent, ChefSteps, has just rolled out a couple cool new features that might be of interest here.

First, something I suggested when I first joined the community back in January; development histories of the recipes that are posted to the site, along with the tasting notes after each run. They started off by posting the four development versions of their vegetable demi that got them to the final published recipe, and today they just shared v1 of their in development doughnut hole recipe.

Second, something that I think has huge potential to set ChefSteps apart; an ingredient wiki. They've added a wiki page for every ingredient in every recipe they've published to date, and have just opened the feature up to community members for group editing.

Check 'em out.

[Willie Kool]

Does anyone have a good homemade recipe for meatballs?

1 lb. ground beef (80/20)
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1 egg
2-3 cloves garlic (crushed and chopped)
1/4 - 1/3 cup fresh parsley (chopped fine)
salt
pepper

Fry in olive oil until browned well on all sides, then transfer to oven or sauce to finish cooking.

[eddysnake]

I need to find a gift for someone who enjoys cooking. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, probably around $20. Some type of gadget that's different? Any ideas?

[eddysnake]

Does anyone have a good homemade recipe for meatballs?

1 lb. ground beef (80/20)
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1 egg
2-3 cloves garlic (crushed and chopped)
1/4 - 1/3 cup fresh parsley (chopped fine)
salt
pepper

Fry in olive oil until browned well on all sides, then transfer to oven or sauce to finish cooking.

That's almost the exact recipe I used this past weekend.

[count2infinity]

I need to find a gift for someone who enjoys cooking. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, probably around $20. Some type of gadget that's different? Any ideas?

Mortar and Pestle
A kitchen scale
Adjust a cup measuring cup


Those are just a few off the top of my head. I'll think about more.

[canaan]

meatball cookbook:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2 ... 0418954637" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i have this and use it regularly. (as regularly as i make meatballs, that is to say)

[eddysnake]

mortar and pestle and cookbook are done deals. Thanks. might have to pick up the meatball book for myself, looks pretty cool

[count2infinity]

nice. i just bought a huge mortar and pestle from kitchen collection for 20 bucks. the small ones were 10 i think.

[skullman80]

I bought my wife a few cookbooks for Christmas, I think one is a Julia Childs one, and the other is by Irma Rosbauer or something like that(sorry don't know chefs haha), but I know she wanted both pretty bad.

[Gaucho]

I bought my wife a few cookbooks for Christmas.

oy gewalt...

[skullman80]

I bought my wife a few cookbooks for Christmas.

oy gewalt...

Haha. SHe is a really good cook, but she likes to have cookbooks to try different things. She honestly asked for them.

[Gaucho]

I bought my wife a few cookbooks for Christmas.

oy gewalt...

Haha. SHe is a really good cook, but she likes to have cookbooks to try different things. She honestly asked for them.

[skullman80]

I bought my wife a few cookbooks for Christmas.

oy gewalt...

Haha. SHe is a really good cook, but she likes to have cookbooks to try different things. She honestly asked for them.

I got lucky. My mom was a lousy cook(sorry mom), both my grandparents were awesome cooks, and my wife is right up there with my grandparents on the awesome cook scale.

[Gaucho]

I remember praising my mother's cooking exactly once during my childhood. It happened to be on the day my father, unbeknownst to me, made meatballs. My mother was so pissed...

[tifosi77]

[count2infinity]

[Shyster]

I think her secret ingredient is Botox.