1. For firm polenta use 4 cups water; for soft polenta use 5 cups water. Bring water to a boil in a medium-size heavy sauce pan over high heat. Add 1 teaspoon salt. Pour cornmeal slowly into water, ...

Today I am going to share recipes for making polenta. I love polenta for its delicious and comforting qualities, but also for its diversity. While it is most commonly made from cornmeal, it can also ...

Do you ever go through phases with certain dishes, practically living off them for months until one day you just … stop? When my husband and I first moved in together, polenta featured big in our ...

This video features an easy polenta recipe made with instant polenta and a variety of mushrooms, including button, oyster, ...

In Italy's Piedmont region, where polenta may be better loved than anywhere else on Earth, the cornmeal mush is a food of the fall. When the air turns crisp with the first frost and people await the ...

Cook grits, AKA polenta, in the microwave. These are regional yellow, white and stoneground types. All are made from corn and are gluten-free. (The NOLA.com/Times ...

The month of Saint Valentine conjures images of chocolate, truffles, oysters and … corn grits. Really? Yes. I understand that grits may not be the natural subject of sweet nothings, but what this ...

For most people, the only time lasagna lands on the weeknight table is when they prepare it ahead during the weekend. Or when it came out of a box. Even the no-boil noodles usually are too much ...

In most cases, I’m a traditional cook. If there is a longer, slower, more manual way to do something, almost invariably I will prefer it. But even I push tradition aside when I find an alternative ...

Which sounds more appetizing, mush, gruel or polenta? From a marketing standpoint, polenta seems to be the dominant title. The roots of polenta date back thousands of years. Pulmentum was the name of ...