Midweek last week, I read this post on The Kitchn about a polenta party and I was completely inspired. I wanted to throw a party, or at the very least attend one. My current apartment is just not condusive to such a gathering, so I threw a gauntlet to my friends Cristina and Guilia (who are sisters and Italian and have a habit of throwing excellent parties at their parents' beautiful mid-century home). Little did I realize that Guilia would run with it and throw a party on Friday. Due to work, I couldn't help out ahead of time, but I feel like this was the dress rehearsal for many future polenta parties. We also didn't have a beautiful wooden polenta board, as they did on The Kitchen, but made due with using wax paper. It sounds like there are schemes of getting something more permanent, though. I look forward to more of these parties!
I don't have any of the recipes, but our toppings were a sliced beef in a tomato sauce, sauteed kale, sauteed mushrooms, and a gorgonzola sauce. We also had appetizers, a delicious cesar salad, and zabaglione for dessert. I am now completely and totally obsessed with zabaglione. Cristina said that she'd have me over to her parents' sometime and her mom will teach us how to make it. It looks fairly straightforward (based on the recipes I've looked at online), but if this happens, I will document and share.
Here are other photos of our meal. The photo above is of my plate. I'm going to start with dessert below, because it is so damn good. (Also, I had brought my good camera with me to document our meal, only to get there and realize that the batteries were dead. Amateur hour. All photos are courtesy of my phone.)
That looks far more exciting than ours did! Yum!
Posted by: hannah | April 03, 2013 at 01:13 PM