LOVE meatballs.
My Italian MIL made the best meatballs ever - using three different kinds of meat. No recipe, of course, and however she made them went with her to the grave.
My MILmade the best meatloaf, and it’s very different than the one with ketchup and oats, like my mother made. She used Worcestershire sauce in hers. I begged her for the recipe, and the best I got out of her was taking notes while watching her make it. Instead of a measurement though, she would say, you need a good bit of this or that. So it’s something you have to do with your eyes telling you it looks right. It took me 25 years to get her meatloaf recipe right. Someday I’ll need to try to measure out all the ingredients, so that I can pass it down to our kids.