Asian Meatballs

What is an Asian Meatball? I have no idea.  Why are these called Asian meatballs? I have no idea.  Maybe, it's because my wife grew up in Asia or because these have a slightly Orientalish flavor to them. Either way, that's what we have called them for the last 30 years, so here we are. There are lots of recipes out there for "Asian" Meatballs, but these are simple and tasty. No need to get too crazy with the cheese whiz, it's ok to have a simple recipe.  One time, Sara's best friend's husband had twenty in one sitting. It kind of grossed us out, but they are that good. 
Ingredients
  • 1 1/4 lb ground beef or turkey
  • 1 1/2 cup soft white bread crumbs (I just blend bread in a blender)
  • 1/3 cup sliced green onions
  • 3 TBSP soy sauce
  • 1 garlic clove pressed or chopped or 2 tsp crushed garlic
  • 1/2 cup water chestnuts, finely chopped (optional)

Sauce
  • 3/4 plum jam (or cherry or apricot jam, depends on what you can find)
  • 1/4 cup chilli sauce

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Directions
1. Cook the rice. Wait, there is no rice in this recipe? Well, yeah, but what are you going to eat the meatballs with? Cereal? Just shut-up and cook the rice.
​2. Now to the meatballs: Mix the ingredients for the meatballs together in a bowl (bet you didn't see that coming). 
3. Take the mix and mold them into about 20 meatballs. 
4. Place in a 9 x 13 dish that has been sprayed with baking spray or buttered.
5. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes. 
6. While it's baking, mix the sauce together. 
7. Once baked, cover the meatballs with the sauce. 
8. Bake for additional 5-7 minutes. 
9. Serve with rice. See what I did there? I added the rice at the end, what if you hadn't started making it at the beginning, then you'd be totally annoyed that you didn't have rice, but you do, so you're welcome. 
Fahrenheit and Celsius
The Fahrenheit temperature scale was named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit who was a German physicist. He originally based his system on measurements using salt and ice as its zero point. Celsius was named for Swedish astronomer Andrew Celsius who based his scale on the freezing and boiling point of water (which makes a hell of a lot more sense, really Germany, salt and ice?). The British Royal Society, wanting a more sophisticated system that made no practical sense, adopted Fahrenheit as their standard because it was the most accurate system at the time. Also, they thought that if they used it, the Germans would leave them alone. The Colonies adopted the same system. After Germany decided to bomb Britain, the British were a little "put off" and decided Sweden was less annoying. So they dropped Fahrenheit and went to Celsius. America was too tired from saving the Brit's butts in the war that they never got around to changing. So we've been stuck in a wacky system ever since.