The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Albondagas means “meatball” in Spanish. This is considered a Mexican soup. What caught my attention originally, was I thought the description said rice meatballs, thinking it was rice balls formed like meatballs. So I mentioned to my yoga class I was going to make this soup that had rice balls. They asked, “How do they stay together?” Good question!! I then went back to actually read the recipe and of course it uses hamburger and rice, which stays together nicely.

I’m also guilty of speed reading the recipe. I thought the cilantro went into the soup (as it also goes into the meatb...