Cheever Sauce

I don’t always post the food I make in the order I make it, so it’s a little coincidental that I am posting two soy sauce based, glazed dishes, one after another. I love these dishes because accompanying soy sauce with flavors like ginger and honey, really masks its strong flavor, that sometimes tends to be a little too much for me, and I’ll eat something that is “glazed” any day.

Anyway, meatballs are allll the rage right now. The Meatball Shop (yes for all your non-New Yorkers, there is a shop…in Manhattan….that just serves meatballs….) is sprouting up new locations faster than you can say polpetta. And I can’t turn my head without finding a restaurant that serves up this delectable fair. 

To tell you the honest truth, I’m not a huge meatball person. I totally dig the whole concept of them, but for some reason they never really stuck with me. I enjoy them at restaurants and when others make them, but not enough to cook up my own. But something really struck me about these scallions meatballs. An asian meatball seamed like such an antithesis of meatballs. Shouldn’t this Italian staple be covered in red sauce and cheese? I was intrigued, which meant only one thing, it was time to roll up my sleeves and cook my very first meatball. 

All I can say is that I am now hooked! They were super easy to make - just throw all the ingredients into a bowl, mix, and cook. Each bite was loaded with the flavors of sweet, juicy, and tangy meat. It tasted like an inside of the most perfect dumpling…in the best possible way. The sauce/glaze that accompanied them was beyond restaurant quality, and I ended up jarring some to cook with eggplant later in the week. These are a must try that I can’t recommend enough. :)

Read on for the delicious recipe adapted from Canal House Cooking:

In a place like New York City, where everyone is running around, ambitious and determined to get through their busy days, it’s easy to get lost in your own world. Even with over 8 million people surrounding you, more times than not you can feel a little alone. Living in a place like this really taught me to value the one thing no promotion, no job, no guy, no money, no clothes, no nice apartment (although don’t all those things sound nice?) can replace: your friends. 

So! With that CheeverSauce life lesson out of the way, I will continue that when I get together with my friends, the one thing I can usually offer them that they can’t offer me (besides my unmatchable wisdom, wonderful charm, and a sexy shoulder to lean on) is delicious, homemade food. 

The other day I wanted to put a momentary halt to my “I think I make a million dollars a year so I can go out for drinks and food whenever I want to” mentality, so my friends and I decided they would bring some wine over to my apartment and I would whip up some CheeverSauce before we headed out for the night. 

Not in the mood to cook a huge dinner, and feeling the need to get rid of a lot of left over ingredients in my fridge, I decided appetizers were going to be the way to go. So throw a bunch of stuff together, present it all on a serving platter, and wow your friends tonight, because if they’re your besties, they will still love you even when you feed them your leftovers :)

Now for the recipes…