Here's how one of yesterday's polpettone from the butcher looked after I'd cooked it tonight and you can also see how I chose to present it. One was quite enough for a cosy supper for two [I have frozen the other one].
Note to my students: "looked after I'd [ = "had"] cooked it" - the meaning is I cooked it first, then this is how it looked!
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I'm sure this was delicious. I thought polpettone was the equivalent of meat loaf, made from ground meat but it does not look like that from the photo. Cos'è?
Dear Welshcakes,
I've come across your blog and am hokked!!! You are living my dream...thank you for sharing.
I, too, am a teacher, actually a university professor of Spanish at a uni called Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee....sigh, yes, Nashville, where I've spent the last 20 years, never haviung dreamed for a day that would be how life went. But I do travel ALOT, have four months off every summer, so that is when I go...
will be in Sicily for several days at the end of April...will in the meantime live vicariously through your blog...just a question, though..how warm do you think it will be? I will read more about what you have to say...very nice to see your musings, all the best.
Lori
I'm moving to Sicily , right next door to you Welshcakes x
I was going to ask whether 'polpettone' was Italian for cow's eye.
Hi, jmb. Well, he did say it was a "sort of" one! It has polpettone minced meat inside and then there i a layer of fat around it plus the beef fillet. I brushed it with olive oil to oven-cook.
Hi, Lori and welcome to my blog. I am so glad you like it. It's never too late to change your life! How fantastic that you are coming to Sicily. It can be windy in April but could be warming up by the end of it. Could be in the high 30s celsius. Come prepared for anything! Auguri from Modica.
What fun that would be, nunyaa!
It should be, Beaman!
That's beautifully presented, WL
How wonderfully you present it! Did it taste as good as it looks?
Now that does look delicious and presented so prettily :-)
WW, Liz and cherrypie: how kind of you all to say so. The presentation was a last-minute inspiration! Oh, better, Liz....
Very nice Welshcakes. I am a bit lazy in presentation since I am getting used to my kids turning their noses up to many of my meals. Every now and again I invest the energy.
You certainly keep up the standards welchcakes. Food has to look appetizing to be appetizing. Or something like that.
yummmm Welshcakes, that polpettone looks delicious! I wish I could smell it from here, and you always present your food so divinely too, welldone xo
Mmmm... Welshcakes; That looks delicious, such lovely presentation too. I do hope Simi was given a sample
As it is now 6pm, and feeling inspired by your 'scrumptious' cooking I am now going to set about the task of making some Herby Meat Balls, served with Linguine and a Fresh Tomato Sauce. Oh and some Spring Greens....
See how your wonderful cooking stirs ones imagination!
Chloe is rather partial to a meat Ball and will be extremely pleased. She sends her love to you and Simi..Purr..Purr..
Di. xx
the floral shape: is that potatoes round the edge?
my friend Clare Pottery did a TEFL in Poland (not entirely sure about this but I suspect she is a flamin' monoglot: English ~ the only people in the world who could possibly consider themselves worthy of teaching foreigners their language without learning a foreign one first! ~ anyway she said the Poles found the English tenses system incredibly complexicated... about 12 tenses? isn't it? whereas they just have 3 past-present-future or 4 if counting the conditional... strangely i never really noted this with French or German (or Welsh but that's another matter. Welsh is about 3 languages built into one depending on whether you're speaking Farm Welsh, so-called "Living Welsh" (a compromise modern standard, like Norwegians, Greeks, some other nations have when the traditional literary language is terrifyingly exulted) and then literary Welsh which no-one "speaks"... anyway)... yeah with my language stuff at school I was just grateful it was simplified!
ps HAD to do Welsh as school in Dyfed!
Thanks, CC. I can imagine how it is with kids . They just go through that stage, don't they?
Many thanks, MM and Kyles.
Trubes, thank you. Simi certainly got some! You are always very kind. Lots of hugs to you and Chloe from both of us xx woof!
Ciao, Gleds. Yes, potatoes! I nteresting to learn about your friend Claire's course in Poland. I can imagine the Poles find English dificult and pity the poor Chinese, who have no tenses at all, I understand! Love our aside about Brit linguistic arrogance. Auguri xx
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