Has anybody ever eaten polenta and or horse meat? Non traditional Italian food.

[Villa]

I spent a month in northern Italy this past summer. Ate a lot of food that people don't usually think of as Italian food. For one thing I went to this steak house in Vicenza, Italy. They had huge thick steaks and also horse meat steaks. Somebody said they get the horse meat from Argentina.

At any rate one common food in Italy that doesn't seem Italian at all is polenta. It's the same word in Spanish. It's prepared in different ways and mixed with different things.

Polenta is a dish made from boiled cornmeal. Although the word "polenta" is borrowed into English from Italian, and it is a traditional staple food throughout much of Northern Italy, the same dish (under various names) is also found in Slovenian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenian_cuisine), Savoyard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy), Swiss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cuisine), American Southern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_South), Austrian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_cuisine), Portuguese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_cuisine), Bosnian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_cuisine), Croatian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_cuisine), Cuban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_cuisine), Hungarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_cuisine), Serbian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_cuisine), Romanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_cuisine), Bulgarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_cuisine), Georgian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_cuisine), Corsican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica), Argentine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cuisine), Uruguayan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay), Brazilian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_cuisine), Peruvian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_cuisine), Venezuelan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_cuisine), Haitian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_cuisine), Mexican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cuisine) and Turkish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_cuisine) cuisines.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Polenta in Mexico??? I'm trying to think of a similar meal, but I'm not that sure there's anything like that, despite the fact that much of the Mexican cuisine is based on corn grains and flour.

There is obviously some fast-cooking polenta at the supermarket, but it's not a "national" dish. :thinking:


But to reply the original question: I have cooked and tasted polenta sometimes, although I haven't been specially happy with it, and have never eaten horse meat (that I know). :D

[Jessica]

horse meat? :mad:

[pjt33]

I may have eaten horsemeat without realising in an Argentinian restaurant. I know I've eaten guinea pig.

[Jessica]

ugh I don't feel like eating meat anymore :yuck:

[ROBINDESBOIS]

I have eaten polenta in France and Italy. I don´t like it very much. I love horsemeat, wild boar meat, buffalo meat and ostrich meat. They are all delicious.

[Tomisimo]

I have eaten polenta in France and Italy. I don´t like it very much. I love horsemeat, wild boar meat, buffalo meat and ostrich meat. They are all delicious.
I'll have to try them all sometime.

[poli]

Polenta can be prepared in many ways. There is a Colombian/Venezuelan
food called arepa which resembles dry-baked polenta. I don't think you will find soft polenta (like what you find in Veneto) often in Latin America outside of Argentina. In Argentina, it is very much available (and really good) at Italian restaurants and stores.

[pjt33]

I have eaten polenta in France and Italy. I don´t like it very much. I love horsemeat, wild boar meat, buffalo meat and ostrich meat. They are all delicious.
I didn't think ostrich was anything special, but wild boar sausage is good (and so is donkey sausage).

[Elaina]

I've eaten polenta but can't say that it was something that I would eat again as it lacks flavor and ???

I think I've eaten horse meat but I don't remember if I like it or not as I was a child when I ate it. I do remember it was very, very red and it had to be cooked for a long while for it to get tender.

[CrOtALiTo]

I spent a month in northern Italy this past summer. Ate a lot of food that people don't usually think of as Italian food. For one thing I went to this steak house in Vicenza, Italy. They had huge thick steaks and also horse meat steaks. Somebody said they get the horse meat from Argentina.

At any rate one common food in Italy that doesn't seem Italian at all is polenta. It's the same word in Spanish. It's prepared in different ways and mixed with different things.

Polenta is a dish made from boiled cornmeal. Although the word "polenta" is borrowed into English from Italian, and it is a traditional staple food throughout much of Northern Italy, the same dish (under various names) is also found in Slovenian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenian_cuisine), Savoyard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoy), Swiss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cuisine), American Southern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_South), Austrian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_cuisine), Portuguese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_cuisine), Bosnian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_cuisine), Croatian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_cuisine), Cuban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_cuisine), Hungarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_cuisine), Serbian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_cuisine), Romanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_cuisine), Bulgarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_cuisine), Georgian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_cuisine), Corsican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica), Argentine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cuisine), Uruguayan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay), Brazilian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_cuisine), Peruvian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_cuisine), Venezuelan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_cuisine), Haitian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_cuisine), Mexican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cuisine) and Turkish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_cuisine) cuisines.




Really I don't know anything about the dish you are talking about.

But I'd like to know where is knowns thus dish in Mexico, because you mentioned something similar to Mexico food.;)

[poli]

Really I don't know anything about the dish you are talking about.

But I'd like to know where is knowns thus dish in Mexico, because you mentioned something similar to Mexico food.;)
Sí tiene algo semejante a la comida mexicana. La masa de los tamales
parece algo la polenta, pero la polenta es la masa nada más. No viene enrollano en la hoja de elote. Tambien la polenta suele estar hecho de harina de maiz amarillo no blanco. A veces hechan queso rayado a la masa y frecuentamente lo sirve con guisados con mucha salsa. La polenta absorba la salsa casi como esagueti y puede ser delicioso.

Creo que(si no había ocurrido ya) con los condimentos correctos, la polenta puede estar incorporada en la comida mexicana sin problemas en las manos de un buen chef inventivo.:thumbsup:

[ookami]

I eat polenta since I'm a child, not with much frequence but it isn't a strange dish at all here.
I love it! My mother makes it with milk + xxxxx + bolognesa sauce (meat and tomato and garlic and ...) + pieces of cheese and a quite good quantity of it in the middle.
It's a very fast food, nothing to elaborate. If you buy the one "instant polenta" on the supermarket, you can make it as I have told you in 5-10 minutes maximum.

And for the one that said "maybe I have ate horse meat in Argentina".. :P it isn't That common to eat horse meat without realizing, and still more (¿y aun más?) if you don't asked especially for it. Cow+++

What you must probe is patagonic lamb (cordero patagónico), it's expensive but....

[poli]

I eat polenta since childhood,but not very often. It isn't a strange dish at all here.
I love it! My mother makes it with milk + xxxxx + bolognesa sauce (meat and tomato and garlic and ...) + pieces of cheese and a quite good quantity of it in the middle.
It's a very fast food, nothing to elaborate. If you buy :good: "instant polenta" in the supermarket, you can make it as I have told you in 5-10 minutes maximum.

And for the one that said "maybe I have ate horse meat in Argentina".. :P it isn't That common to eat horse meat without realizing it, and still more (¿y aun más?) if you don't asked especially for it. Cow+++

What you must probe is patagonic lamb (cordero patagónico), it's expensive but....
Instead say: What you must try is Patagonian lamb.
Bueno, por lo menos no soy el único que encuentra polenta sabrosa.

[irmamar]

I've never eaten horse and I'll never do, they're so beautiful and free :sad:

[pjt33]

Sí tiene algo semejante a la comida mexicana. La masa de los tamales
parece algo la polenta, pero la polenta es la masa nada más. No viene enrollano en la hoja de elote. Tambien la polenta suele estar hecho de harina de maiz amarillo no blanco. A veces hechan queso rayado a la masa y frecuentamente lo sirve con guisados con mucha salsa. La polenta absorba la salsa casi como esagueti y puede ser delicioso.

Creo que(si no había ocurrido ya) con los condimentos correctos, la polenta puede estar incorporada en la comida mexicana sin problemas en las manos de un buen chef inventivo.:thumbsup:
La primera vez que leí esa palabra creí que debía ser "hacen" (formación errónea desde "hecho"), pero luego me di cuenta de que "echan" tenía más sentido.

[CrOtALiTo]

Sí tiene algo semejante a la comida mexicana. La masa de los tamales
parece algo la polenta, pero la polenta es la masa nada más. No viene enrollano en la hoja de elote. Tambien la polenta suele estar hecho de harina de maiz amarillo no blanco. A veces hechan queso rayado a la masa y frecuentamente lo sirve con guisados con mucha salsa. La polenta absorba la salsa casi como esagueti y puede ser delicioso.

Creo que(si no había ocurrido ya) con los condimentos correctos, la polenta puede estar incorporada en la comida mexicana sin problemas en las manos de un buen chef inventivo.:thumbsup:



You believe me, I never have eaten that before, it's first time to listen mentioned thus dish, but I can see that too delicious.

If you have the date where I can find that dish in my country.:D

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Poli: I can assure you that "tamales" have absolutely nothing in common with polenta. Much different flavour and consistency. If you get such a sticky and thick tamal, it means the chef is very clumsy or that it's half-cooked. ;)
Anyway, polenta is, as you said, more related to pasta, but in my humble opinion a lot less interesting despite the ingredients you add to it. :D


@Crotalito: búscala en un supermercado grande, en el área de pastas.

[poli]

Es verdad que polenta no es exactamente igual a la masa de los tamales. La harina de polenta es más molido (aunque polenta integral es disponible) que la de los tamales y usan harina de maiz amarilla en lugar de blanca pero la semejanza es natural.
Las dos tienen el sabor de maiz pero la consistencia de la polenta varie. Puede ser suave como flan o tiesa como una tortilla gruesa o arepa. Como la masa de tamal el sabor de polenta cambia con los ingredientes..dulces para desayuno y salada para la cena.

En el sur de EEUU es común comer grits. Los grits están hechos con canchas de maiz seca (pozole) molidas. Los comen en la mañana con lo que sea (tocino, frijoles de ojo negro por ejemplo). Los Grits son polenta pero con maiz blanco. Tambien puede cocinarlos en un sarten hasta se seca y despúes freirlos como buñuelos (hushpuppies) o a la parilla como panqueques. Casi donde vivo yo no se los encuenta, pero en puntos sur,sí.

[wavehuntress]

My friend had me try 'charky' which (unbeknownst to me) is traditionally made from horse flesh here. I didn't care for the charky, as it's dried and shredded to the point where it has a straw-like texture, nothing at all like the tough and salty 'jerky' I know. Of course once I found out it was horse meat... well, never again.

I have eaten bear (tough), moose (probably a purely Canadian thing), deer (delicious), ostrich (good, but not worth the high price), goat (awesome on a barbeque), lamb (always awesome), rabbit (hard to say as it was in a stew) and shark (surprisingly mild in flavor) to list a few.

I have had arepas made with white corn flour although they aren't a native dish here (the flour is imported from Columbia) and I thought they were delicious.