Favorite dish from my recent trip. Horse Stew with Polenta
from a lovely spot in Verona
by _alltyedup
10 Comments
EstherHazy
And that was what you were presented with at a restaurant? I bet it taste great but that presentation is awful!
Majestic_Operation48
The polenta looks really smooth, but thin/ liquid. What do Italians think? How should polenta be, and does it vary regionally? I’ve read that risotto is usually thinner/more liquid in Veneto too.
Schmeep01
Yum!
TheViolaRules
A horse is a good meal
atzucach
Like fine dining meets lunchlady Doris
kittygomiaou
Yes please
Judgement915
Probably the worst plated food I’ve seen in 30 years. The lunch lady scooped mashed potatoes on my tray with more care than this
AidenGKHolmes
Polenta doesn’t really have a “density standard”: my grandma, since i was a kid, cooks it in this exact way, but personally i prefer it to be more “hardened”, since i prefer to choose where to put some sauce and where not (Something you can’t simply do with a semiliquid polenta).
One thing i must say: despite the “density” thing, this dish is presented horribly, i’m sure its taste is great but for the presentation itself… god, i hope it wasn’t some high-level restaurant.
drumorgan
We had that dish in Piacenza – our host told us what it was. It’s not my fault that my wife doesn’t speak Italian. She loved it. But, afterwards, she was mad that we let her eat it without knowing. I definitely wanted to “try” it, but I don’t think I would go out of my way to eat horse again. I was in for the full experience. My cousin in Trentino made us rabbit and that was weirder to me for some reason. Oh, and the frog legs from Verona looked a little too much like the legs on my chihuahua back home so that was a no-go for me. But this dish, once it is made into a ragù, there really isn’t much there worse than a bolognese would have, texture wise
10 Comments
And that was what you were presented with at a restaurant?
I bet it taste great but that presentation is awful!
The polenta looks really smooth, but thin/ liquid. What do Italians think? How should polenta be, and does it vary regionally? I’ve read that risotto is usually thinner/more liquid in Veneto too.
Yum!
A horse is a good meal
Like fine dining meets lunchlady Doris
Yes please
Probably the worst plated food I’ve seen in 30 years. The lunch lady scooped mashed potatoes on my tray with more care than this
Polenta doesn’t really have a “density standard”: my grandma, since i was a kid, cooks it in this exact way, but personally i prefer it to be more “hardened”, since i prefer to choose where to put some sauce and where not (Something you can’t simply do with a semiliquid polenta).
One thing i must say: despite the “density” thing, this dish is presented horribly, i’m sure its taste is great but for the presentation itself… god, i hope it wasn’t some high-level restaurant.
We had that dish in Piacenza – our host told us what it was. It’s not my fault that my wife doesn’t speak Italian. She loved it. But, afterwards, she was mad that we let her eat it without knowing. I definitely wanted to “try” it, but I don’t think I would go out of my way to eat horse again. I was in for the full experience. My cousin in Trentino made us rabbit and that was weirder to me for some reason. Oh, and the frog legs from Verona looked a little too much like the legs on my chihuahua back home so that was a no-go for me. But this dish, once it is made into a ragù, there really isn’t much there worse than a bolognese would have, texture wise
Nah. Can’t do horse meat. I grew up around them.