Polenta Meatball
Menu Meat Polenta II: Polenta Meatballs with Tomato Mushroom Sauce Whole Wheat Spaghetti Green Salad The last Tuesday in November was shaping up to be a busy day. An appointment in the morning, volunteer tutoring in the afternoon. And I was in the final stretch of a month-long writing project. So I needed to find a dinner entree that was easy and, if possible, make-ahead. Once again, I figured that the best solution was a makeover of a dish I had tried earlier in the year. Meatballs seemed like the perfect choice. I had three candidates. The most successful were the caraway meatballs I had made back in June. In July, I had tried an odd one, called uštipci, from The Yugoslav Cookbook , that I didn't feel like repeating. Those solid, fatty squares of uncooked bacon mixed in with the ground beef never did cook properly. Then there was an intriguing dish called meat polenta, from the Progressive Slovene Women, one of my most trustworthy...