Hey there, listeners, future callers, and cooking enthusiasts.

Welcome to Dinner SOS, the show where we help you save dinner or whatever you're cooking.

I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bon Appetit and Epicurious.

Our caller this week, Janaais, loves a cooking project.

And even a simple dish turns into something much more involved, and more delicious, when

she's at the helm.

Yesterday, I made turkey meatballs in this, like, mushroom broth, and then I threw some

cream in there.

And yeah, that was pretty good.

Okay.

Well, listen, I could ask you easily, comfortably, handily, even, 20 more questions just about

the turkey meatballs alone.

But something tells me that's not why you called in.

I mean, I did call about balls, but they're not turkey meatballs.

They are matzo balls.

Oh, got you.

So I have been trying and trying and trying to get matzo balls that don't fall apart in my soup for, I think, six

Passover's now.

Jeannet didn't grow up making matzabal soup, or celebrating Passover for that matter.

She converted to Judaism a few years ago, though she'd been embracing her husband's Jewish

traditions for many years before that.

My grandmother has since passed, but she was a very religious person, and she used to say things like, oh, he's Jewish. Did you take him to Jewish church? I'm like, Granny, you can't call it that.

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