37100

Yeap. Don't like it. It has a very sweet taste. My sons love it. Now donkey stew...... Stick the polenta though!

HADENOUGHPIZZA

Oh yes , I forgot to mention that Parma is one of the cities that is really big on horse meat and we have specialised ' equine ' butchers . I have eaten it, it isn't a particular favourite but both children like it . Donkey + polenta is quite good too

MarkRD

Rabbit?

HADENOUGHPIZZA

YES - I like rabbit and have a couple of great recipes - we know somone who rears them on a farm and they are just delicious ! I will also eat venison and willd boar . My OH's Granny claimed to have eaten cat ( during the war .. but I sensed that she missed it ) , badger and hedgehog.

MarkRD

Blimey!

37100

I'll quite happily eat rabbit, venison and wild boar. Quails and frogs, no. Hubby's family used to keep guinea pigs to eat. Before my time though -thankfully.

HADENOUGHPIZZA

No frogs or snails , no tripe or pig trotters either and eels make me sick

pugliese

My turn now.
Horsemeat - great favourite down here, every town has their equine butcher. The "pezzetti di cavallo" in tomato sauce ... lovely. Also polpette, but they say the best bit is the diaphragm (right spelling?) barbequed Donkey is supposed to be even more delicious and tender, but don't very often see it here (more Novara way with the frog's legs), although there is a place in Minervino di Lecce where you can get donkey salami. Rabbit I like but don't cook it very often because you have to buy a whole, skinned one and I can't bear those eyes looking at you, plus the fact OH insists I cook the head ......
I have heard about them eating cat for rabbit here during the war, MIL says you can't tell the difference!

Are we going to start on the sea now ..... sea urchins, octupus, squid, etc. etc? Gnam, gnam as they say in Italian

Twinkle Canelli

It's funny.... I could eat absolutely anything from the sea.... cos nothing's warm and fluffy I suppose.....

jonwel

People seem to be taking about rabbit as if it was something Italian! Can't you get it in GB any more?

Donkey+polenta, great.
Near us in Milan there's an excellent horse butcher who does really tender steaks and I don't find them sweet.

Lamb: my Italian wife goes crazy over British lamb and when we go to GB she likes to buy leg to roast (not to bring back here!).
She also goes crazy about our single and double cream! And scones...

They finally sell roasting bags in Italy. Great for a long slow roast. In GB we used to cook brisket for 8 hours at gas mark one quarter and it came out really tender. I think brisket is biancostato, but there again you've got to convince them to leave it in a single block!

And belly pork...

I've eaten frogs, fried in batter. A bit like chicken. And also snails; well, if you eat whelks and winkles you can't really object to snails. I can't say I go wild over them, though.
Mussels... now there you're talking, but they're yet another traditional British food that you have to come to Italy to find!

HADENOUGHPIZZA

http://www.mcvities.it/giro_1.htm

mc vities are on their way ...

pugliese

Pity Italy finishes at Bari according to them, I will have to wait for their African tour.

Lorna at Vicenza

They sell them at my local supermarket - but only the plain kind. If I'm going to spend that amount of money on them I want the chocolate coated ones!

pugliese

When my son went to the scuola materna at Milan, he fell in love with polenta.... yuck. So finally (after 5 years) I have decided to make him some. He said he had eaten it at a friend's house and they put "formaggio fuso" in. Anyone of you "polentoni" know the recipe.

P.S. I bought the instant stuff and am not saying where .....

HADENOUGHPIZZA

Bari is not too far if you really fancy a digestive , you'd have far more grounds to complain if you were in Palermo.... I can get the fruit shortcakes in Esselunga and some big chocolate cookies made by Jordans