During the winter months when I was a child, coming home from school and being greeted by the beefy, minty scent of albondigas en caldo simmering on the stove felt like a big, warm hug. This Mexican ...

The Spanish word for “meatballs” is albondigas, so naturally the star of albondigas soup is a batch of from-scratch meatballs ...

In her new memoir, "Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands" (published by Heyday), singer Linda Ronstadt includes traditional Sonoran dishes from her childhood. She shares with "Sunday ...

Meatballs don’t always have to be meat. Along the Mexican coast, you can find brighter variations of meatballs made with ground fish and shrimp that shatter your expectations of what albóndigas can be ...

Plunging into a soothing bowl of Mexican meatball soup called albondigas is possible whenever Cueva Bar is open. But what if the tiny tapas restaurant in University Heights is closed? I’ve written ...

In these albóndigas, meat is an enhancement rather than the dish’s centerpiece. Mix together the oatmeal, cilantro, half the garlic, the chipotle, 2 teaspoons of the cumin, 1 teaspoon of the coriander ...

Both ground pork and beef are sold in 1-pound packages (not smaller), and you need both here, so you're mixing the succulent little Spanish meatballs called albondigas with a substantial amount. You ...

Albóndigas en chipotle, meatballs simmered in a smoky tomato-chipotle sauce, is a nostalgic dish in many parts of Mexico, common at home and in restaurants serving comida corrida, home-style set meals ...

THIS TIME LAST YEAR, I was just finishing up 10 weeks of chemotherapy, an “insurance policy” after I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a mastectomy in the summer of 2023. The chemo ...