Essentially Ash

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Finn's Noms: Molly's Meatballs with Onion sauce, Glazed Carrots, and Fluffy Potatoes

Finn's Noms is a weekly feature where Finn picks recipes out of the (many) cookbooks we have, and then cooks them for us!

What book: The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook

What recipe: Molly's Meatballs with onion sauce, glazed carrots, and fluffy potatoes

Did we change anything: Nope!

Why we chose that recipe: It looked fun to make

Thoughts:

I liked it, I think it would go really well in a pasta.

Would we change anything

More onion sauce I think- Ash

Adding it to a pasta- Finn

Would we cook it again.

Yeah!

4/5 Yums

I don't like meatballs, ever. So I was really nervous about this recipe, when Finn cooks I always worry I won't like it, even though Finn says that he knows not everyone will like everything, I don't want to hurt his feelings.

Anyway! I loved these. Finally found meatballs I will eat, the onion sauce was so good, the boys thought it wasn't thick enough, and I think we definitely should've added more.

The glazed carrots were.. Oh my god, so good. John didn't like them, but I loved how sweet they were. Only thing I didn't like is that it was a little too candied on parts and it made it a bit hard to eat.

But damn it was good!

Next week we will be making broccoli and cheese stromboli with roasted garlic green beans.

Weekly Wrap Up: September 20th-26th

Life Stuff:

The only downside to writing these is trying to remember the beginning of the week.

Like, what did I do Sunday/Monday/Tuesday?

Oh! I remember, okay, so Sunday we just hung out, enjoyed my parents still being gone.

Monday I picked them up from the airport, Tuesday we played minecraft a bit, Wednesday we went to a friends house, Thursday I decided to blog again and Finn cooked an amazing dinner. It was homemade meatballs, onion gravy, mashed potatoes, and glazed carrots.

Friday I didn't do much of anything until the evening. We had a parents night out at church and we were going to see the new Resident Evil but I had a panic attack, which sucks. We haven't been out without the kids in 6 months and I messed it up. High five.

Anyway, what I saw of it I loved it though and then I went home and me, my best friend Andrew, and Finn played Shift at Midnight for a bit.

I finally slept, 8 whole hours and woke up feeling so groggy and with a headache. Yay.

Saturday we had D&D, then I had a photoshoot, and we had a gnome family night. We didn't get to watch the movie or play the game, but we had mushroom shaped caprese bites and gnome brownies (Mini brownies topped with whipped cream and strawberries). We ended the night watching Passenger.

Coming up this week:

Church, and Sunday evening (tonight) me and my mom are going to see the new Practical Magic, I don't think I have anything really planned Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Thursday Finn cooks and I'm going to go see Verity, Friday we take him to his dad's and Saturday we have family night (Vampire themed!)

That's it for this week. Prepping for Indie's birthday party on the 10th, hopefully reading, hopefully watching lots of horror movies, playing some games. The fun stuff.