Even the most stubborn of meat-eaters will ask for seconds of these veggie balls.
It’s no secret America has long held a love affair with meatballs. The epitome of comfort food, they’re quintessentially American: familiar, accessible, affordable. Whether tossed in spaghetti, sandwiched between bread or plucked from hors d’oeuvre plates, eating them almost always inspires warm, nostalgic feelings. It seems all too appropriate that a restaurant centered its entire menu around the little morsels.
Since its beginnings as a small outpost in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, The Meatball Shop has opened its doors to two other New York City neighborhoods. With lines that circle the block and food that comes up in conversation days and even weeks later, it’s no wonder Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow’s innovative eatery has become a Manhattan mainstay.
Elevating something as simple as meatballs to the heights of high-brow food is no small feat. But making them accessible to the average at-home cook, and pairing them with worthy sauces, seasonal side dishes and desserts, is what makes The Meatball Shop Cookbook such a novelty. Thank the all-mighty food deities that it came out in time for the holidays.
A crowd-pleaser, these spicy pork meatballs are perfect for your holiday party.
Replete with interesting anecdotes and a detailed back-story that answers questions like So why meatballs?, the book is broken down into six easily maneuverable sections ranging from the balls to the sauces and even the sweets. Never intimidating or daunting in the least, the recipes come neatly packed, well explained and are surprisingly easy to make at home. Take their Spicy Pork Meatballs for instance, one the the restaurants most popular, or their Veggie Balls, easily some of the best I’ve encountered, and you’ll learn how to recreate them in your kitchen, and also easy tweaks and twists to make them your own.
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I like my meatballs with raisins in them, yum yum. Serve with pasta and sauce!
It's with marinara sauce and spaghetti. Simple but tastes great!
My favorite way to eat meatballs is in my Nanny’s apron eating meatballs just like hers. My Nanny never shared her recipe, it was not that she did not want to, I think we just never thought she would leave us so we never asked. Every time I make Nanny's meatballs, I contact my cousins or my mom and we reminisce and I am reminded that to us, meatballs = love.
MMMM delicious! Love Meatball Shop!
MMM delicious! Love Meatball Shop! I like the spicy pork meatballs on a bun!
HAS TO BE A MEATBALL SUB WITH EXTRA SAUCE AND LOTS OF SHREDDED MOZZ. YUMMY
There is no better comfort food than spaghetti and meatballs (I still remember my mom making them for every birthday party when I was a kid) , and the next day having them with sauce on a toasted ciabatta roll with with melted mozzarella and ricotta cheeses.
On a meatball sandwich!
Fresh out of a simmering-for-hours pot of homemade tomato sauce with a fork in one hand and a piece of semolina bread in the other. heaven!!
My favorite way is over polenta…the way I first had it while at The Meatball Shop…I love it!
Turkey Meatballs in sauce made from cranberry sauce ans chile sauce ! Yum!
With pasta – this looks great!
There is only one way to eat meatball: with mashed potatoes and on a delicious brown sauce or in a fantastic tomatoe sauce with lots of Parmesan cheese
I love a very juicy meatball and I make them all kinds of ways even just a plate with sauce yummy
Meatball parm sub with the roll nice and toasted
I like German meatballs – Frikadellen. They're like a mini meatloaf and taste great with potatoes and green beans.
Read your Veggie Ball recipe which I'm anxious to try (w/ the lentils & veggies) although I'm not a vegetarian! Favorite way is fried meatballs as my late mother made them — w/ plenty of garlic, locatelli grated cheese & fresh Italian parsley!… with a side of pasta, of course!
Out of my plastic leftover lunch container, heated up ever so slightly, right after I get to work the next morning. Meatballs… it's what's for breakfast!!!
I love meatballs on spaghetti but a good meat ball sub is also good.
Love it with spaghetti & sauce!
Great post. I too have a great meatball recipe on my blog … http://oddlyhealthy.com/healthy-eating/sweet-onio…
It's slightly different from yours but, I think you and your readers will love it too.