You should immediately stop what you are doing and make this. No, really.
I bought some rapini (aka broccoli rabe, broccoli rabe, Italian broccoli, and about 30 other names) recently, never having made it before, and went on a quest to find some recipes. One of the recipes I found was Soft Polenta with Pancetta and Broccoli Rabe. It looked good, but I didn’t have heavy cream around, so I saved it for later. Instead I made a feta-and-rapini-and-pasta dish that was nice, but not superb.
I still wanted to try the polenta dish — polenta being something else I’d never made — so I bought more rapini and all the other necessaries, and tonight I finally got around to making it.
Someone shoot me for being so dumb as to not have run out and IMMEDIATELY bought everything for this the instant I saw the recipe. Really.
It was so delicious that I nearly died of joy on the first bite. I wanted to eat it all and never, ever, stop eating it. Possibly it was the tastiest thing I have made in my life, and it might be up there in the top 10 tastiest things I’ve ever eaten.
If you are still reading this and not in the kitchen cooking up a batch of polenta, you are missing out, and I weep for you.
March 16th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
She’s right. It was amazingly good and I am looking forward to having the leftovers for breakfast.
The creamy polenta mixed with the crunchy pancetta mixed with the soft rabe ends up being pretty much completely perfect.