Italian Wedding Soup

Meatballs

• 2 oz Parmesan cheese, cubed, plus extra to garnish
• 1 oz bread crumbs
• ½ oz dried porcini mushrooms
• 4 oz yellow onion, in pieces
• 2 garlic cloves
• 16 oz ground beef, broken in pieces
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt

Soup

• 4 oz yellow onion, in pieces
• 6 ½ oz fennel bulb, trimmed, cored, in pieces, plus fronds, to garnish
• 2 garlic cloves
• ½ oz dried porcini mushrooms
• 52 oz beef stock, low sodium
• ½ - 1 tsp salt, to taste
• 4 oz ditalini pasta
• 2 oz lacinato kale, de-stemmed, in pieces (1 in.)