If you haven't tried cooking with polenta much, you might want to consider it as a mild and slightly sweet alternative to wheat-based dishes. The cornmeal staple from northern Italy brings a great ...

Polenta, a staple of Italian cuisine, is a versatile cornmeal dish that can be transformed into a variety of vegetarian ...

Many recipes call for coarsely ground cornmeal when making polenta, but you can use coarse, medium, or fine. I like a mix of fine and medium, which is what I had in Aosta. This combination produces ...

Polenta is a creamy, savory, and comforting cornmeal foundation that's often topped with proteins, veggies, and sauces. While most polenta recipes, like this simple polenta, are a one-pot dish with a ...

We call it cornmeal mush. The Italians call it polenta. And they've been making it since shortly after Columbus introduced corn to the Old World upon his return from America. At its most simple, ...

Simply roast the cherry tomatoes in the oven until they burst, and top your polenta with them, along with torn basil leaves, ...

Ready for another year of cooking? January is a natural time to think about what we want to carry over from last year and what new habits, ideas, activities or recipes we want to explore in the coming ...

It's amazing what difference a dish's name can make. Polenta, the Italian name for ground corn cooked in liquid to a creamy smooth texture, has gustatory appeal. But corn meal mush, our blunt and ...

Mushrooms, sausage ragu with polenta, doesn’t sound like perfect comfort food? Of course, there are so many versions of ragu, but most have some meat as a base. This is the version I created, ...