Back when margie and I discovered Love Thursday we would post just one picture. Usually a heart. Every week I still look for hearts because Love Thursday is always in the back of my mind. I love that we've never missed acknowledging Love Thursday, now we have a habit of seeing love all week long. So today, I'm going old school, one heart, one picture of a neglected doorway frame that someone has decided to show some love to.
FINAL EDIT: Here's the thing, you cannot keep my sister down. She refuses to rest when she is sick. So here she is ....
Margie's Meatballs
The sauce:
1 white onion diced
1 small tablespoon anchovy paste
½ tsp chili paste or hot sauce
1 T olive oil
2 garlic cloves crushed
2 shallots chopped fine
1 C chianti wine ( I used other wine, but chianti is the best)
oven roasted tomatoes (if you have, I usually use the half spoiling tomatoes I have lying around, if you don't have don't worry)
plus can of diced tomatoes plus one can of tomato paste
2 cups of beef broth (use trusty old campbells)
1 T ground fennel seeds
1 bunch of basil
kosher or sea salt
make sauce,
sauté onions, anchovy, garlic, shallots, in olive oil
add wine, add tomatoes, add beef broth, fennel seeds and salt
let it bubble away at a low temp
The meatballs:
1 C cremini mushrooms chopped very fine
1 cooking onion diced fine
2 garlic cloves crushed
1 T Dijon mustard
1 C bread crumbs
11/2 - 2 lbs medium ground beef
1 or two sprigs of chopped rosemary
extra bread crumbs
sauté mushrooms/onion/garlic
add Dijon and bread crumbs, mix and brown slightly
add this mixture to raw meat
make meatballs the size of a Canadian toonie or a small golf ball
this part is a pain but you need to do it. Fry them in olive oil until cooked and crispyish, as they are done, add them to the sauce. they should make their own oil but add if you need, you will end up with a crusty bottom on the pan, when you are all done, drain the oil and deglaze the pan with some wine. Add the bits to the sauce.
Season to taste with fresh basil, you can serve with parmesan grated on top. Delicious. Very earthy taste to the sauce and the meatballs.

Now that's what I'm talking ;-) Looks so sweet.
Happy Love Thursday Kath & Margie !!!
Posted by: Se'Lah | March 26, 2009 at 05:37 AM
The doorway frame obviously needed it. This so so, sweet. My eyes didn't know what to look at first...
Posted by: vchelle | March 26, 2009 at 08:17 AM
P.S. Happy, Happy Love Thursday!
Posted by: vchelle | March 26, 2009 at 08:18 AM
awww, even doorway frames need love! Nice of someone to pass the love along!
Posted by: CarrieJ | March 26, 2009 at 08:50 AM
the heart really pops! next to the muted rock...happy LT!
Posted by: ELK | March 26, 2009 at 08:52 AM
happy love thursday to you!! glad you're bringing it back.
Posted by: spread your wings | March 26, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Happy Love Thursday! Perhaps someone could post a heart to a box of tissues and give them to Margie? Feel better! (And YUM - meatballs!)
Posted by: Katie in MA | March 26, 2009 at 02:22 PM
I love seeing your Love Thursday posts. Isn't it great to have something remind us to look for love?
Posted by: Wanda | March 26, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Happy Love Thursday!
Thank you for the yummy treat! Will have to give that a try!
Posted by: Cam | March 26, 2009 at 04:34 PM
HA! Found it. How did I miss that?
Posted by: Wanda | March 27, 2009 at 01:20 PM
This looks like a great recipe! Thanks for rising from the dead to share it with us!
Posted by: dutchbaby | January 01, 2010 at 12:20 PM