"Alan Sandoval" > wrote in message
...
> Opps! Wrong group, sorry!


Not necessarily! In the Philippines we have them -- almondigas,
meatball soup. Here's a nice-looking picture, though I thought it was made
with thin wheat noodles, not rice noodles.

http://cooking.houseonahill.net/recipes/000210.html


> "Alan Sandoval" > wrote in message
> ...
> > My mother seemed to make this quite well though I know nothing of it's
> > origin. It was simply described to me as Mexican meatball soup. I've
> only
> > found it at a few places here in S Calif.
> >
> > Is this a widely available traditional Mexican food? Is it regional?
If
> it
> > is cross-regional does it differ from place to place?


If you do a search on the web, there are Mexican, Honduran, Spanish, etc,
albóndigas. It certainly originates from Spain, maybe even from the Arabs,
since the word comes from Arabic.

Peter


> >
> > I do remember my mother always kept a mint plant growing in the yard,
> > seemingly only for a key ingredient in albondigas. And yes, my mother
> > contributed the Danish half of my heritage, guess paternal grandmother
> > taught her well in the kitchen.
> >
> > Alan Sandoval
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