Bob's Your Uncle Meatballs

 

Turkey Meatballs (aka Bob’s Your Uncle), courtesy August Foodie Pen Pal.

We are in the grip of perpetual darkness and rain and simple comfort food is the answer.  My August Foodie Pen Pal, Lindsay, sent a recipe for Turkey Pesto Meatballs.  I’ve never tackled meatballs from "scratch" but I had great success with this.  I say scratch but the only tricky bit was getting the jars opened.

 

My Yield:  24 meatballs

I substituted Pecorino for the parmesan.  (There’s enough parmesan in the pesto.)
Any sauce will do.
I skipped the salt, too.

 

Adapt at will.  Perhaps next time it will be homemade pesto, crumbs and sauce.  (Once my fingers thaw out that is.)

 

 

 

Wellington Boot Soup

My dear man, how did you know?

We are the only people that rake leaves.

Spinach soup?  That’s not very seasonal.

It was on sale.  Besides I’ve grown so many damn onions.  I like soup.  When I was younger, my family took soup at every meal. But back then, it was more like water soup.  We’ll see what we can do with crab. Speaking of the old country, fancy a drop of the old medicinal?

See you in ten.

 

 

Simple Spinach Soup

For 4 persons.

 

2 oz butter

1 onion, sliced

8 C spinach, torn

2 oz flour

1 C stock

2 C milk

2 TBSP 35% cream

1 TSP nutmeg

salt & pepper, to taste

 

 

Sautee onions in butter.  Don’t brown. 

 

Add spinach and cook further five minutes. 

 

Add flour and stir well.

Add stock and stir.

Add milk and bring to boil.

Add nutmeg and simmer 20 minutes.

Season to taste.

Puree.

Serve with fresh cream.