I’ve been burned more than a few times by recipes that bloggers lavishly hailed as amazing but that in my kitchen (my fault?) were only so-so. I’m forgiving, though, because the successes are worth it, and because I know that people are just doing what they have to do to keep cooking and writing. All these peeks into people’s kitchens and lives make up for any number of recipes that don’t quite deliver.
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If you're not lucky enough to have grown up with a bubbe fussing over you and cooking you some of the most amazing comfort food ever, then Jewish Home Cooking by Arthur Schwartz can help you approximate the experience yourself. Here's an adaptation of Schwartz's potted sweet-and-sour meatballs, which can be used in stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers, sweet-and-sour cabbage borscht, and more.
The January/February issue of Everyday Food is dedicated to "Light Done Right" dishes: main course salads, puréed vegetable soups, even brownies that use applesauce in place of butter. Since I just spent weeks stuffing myself with high-fat holiday fare and guzzling festive cocktails, it couldn't have arrived in my mailbox at a better time. After perusing all the recipes, I decided to make the Light Turkey Meatballs from the issue and then turn them into Mini Barbeque Meatball Sliders.
The recipe came together fairly quickly—basically, you throw all the ingredients together in a bowl and mash them up with a fork—but I did find two discrepancies. First, the yield is listed as 35 meatballs, each about 2 tablespoons in size. My meatballs were about half as big, and I came out with only 34. Second, the procedure calls for freezing the meatballs on a cookie sheet for one hour to set their shape, but I found mine needed two hours to really firm up.
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