"Most evenings at SE Ankeny's Normandie, diners pack into the wooden tables and line the marble bar for plates of gochujang-glazed ahi and Parisienne gnocchi with Dungeness crab, finishing with calvados and madeleine cookies. But on a Sunday evening in December 2024, things were a little different. Rather than the familiar coastal French cuisine supported by a globe-trotting pantry, heaping plates of meatballs, eggplant parmesan, and "disco fries" filled the tables."
"Amanda Cannon, Normandie's co-owner and wine director, says the event was inspired by her mother's passing earlier that year. She was pregnant at the time and processed the loss by cooking the meals she grew up eating at her grandmother's home in Hoboken, New Jersey: meatballs, pastas, salads, wings, and the iconic Italian American dish referred to as Sunday gravy or, in Cannon's case, Sunday sauce."
Normandie in SE Ankeny normally serves coastal French dishes like gochujang-glazed ahi and Parisienne gnocchi, anchored by a globe-trotting pantry. In December 2024 the restaurant hosted a Sunday Sauce dinner featuring Italian-American comfort foods: meatballs, eggplant parmesan, disco fries, marinara-soaked pastas, Negronis, lemon drops, banana tiramisu, and birthday cannoli cakes. Amanda Cannon, Normandie's co-owner and wine director, cooked family recipes after her mother's death while pregnant, drawing from meals at her grandmother's Hoboken home. After months of testing and a well-received event, Sunday Sauce will become a permanent restaurant on N Killingsworth, opening October 23.
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