Pouring polenta straight onto a wooden board is an ancient Italian tradition called polenta alla spianatora.
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Recipe: Baked Polenta With Crispy Leeks and Gorgonzola This cheesy polenta dish suggests three paths for a wine.
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It'd go great with David Tanis's recipe for a basic polenta or, more ambitiously, with Melissa's recipe for butternut squash polenta with sausage and onion.
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Polenta With Parmesan and Olive Oil-Fried Eggs So easy, so good: Pair cheesy polenta or grits with eggs fried in olive oil til their edges crisp.
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This method, and the way it is served, had to be abandoned for my one-tray version; the "sauce" would mix with the polenta before the polenta even cooked.
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An $8 bowl of creamy polenta with Parmesan, for patrons with smaller budgets (and polenta lovers, in general) remains a way to keep the restaurant inclusive and its clientele diverse.
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Drizzle the pesto around so that it dots the polenta.
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Tonight's menu is braised lamb with polenta and spicy carrots.
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When we visited them, they made us rabbit and polenta.
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Stir continuously to avoid the polenta from becoming lumpy. 9.
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Plate the rabbit over the polenta and top with sauce.
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Cook braised chicken in two vinegars and serve over polenta.
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A plate of steaming goulash and polenta was brought over.
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While the eggs are cooking, scoop the hot polenta onto the plate.
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Why, here is a recipe for teff polenta with toasted hazelnut oil!
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It comes with a ladle for soup and wooden paddle for polenta.
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She orders a polenta bowl and I order a chicken sausage pizza.
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Eat bruschetta, a Caesar salad, and choose the salmon and polenta entrée.
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Polenta is porridge, in pure and simple terms. Warm. Comforting. Salty. Fattening.
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Polenta is a popular food served on its own or alongside meats.
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The texture of the eggs, I'd read, was like that of polenta.
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I can hard-boil eggs and make polenta, and that's about it.
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It was served with carrots, onions, mushrooms, and polenta, plus a focaccia.
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We may cook some polenta with butter, soy sauce and mushrooms tonight.
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In the case of soft polenta, though, I was initially more reticent.
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Rather, rice and polenta are served with the coastal town's fish-based dishes.
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Originally from Milan, the meal is traditionally served with either risotto or polenta.
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A few main dishes like roast chicken with polenta round out the list.
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The first thing Jess does is get a small pot of polenta started.
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In a small bowl, stir together the flour, polenta, baking powder and salt.
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With a bit of patience, you can even make polenta in the microwave.
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He used fresh corn cobs to make the stock for cooking the polenta.
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Recipe of the day: Polenta with mushrooms, a dinner of comfort and joy.
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Maybe with polenta, a thatch of watercress, a chilled glass of red wine?
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For me, fonio is more like polenta or cream of wheat than quinoa.
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My waffles weren't the best, but Sarah's white truffle polenta was really good.
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You could make Martha Rose Shulman's recipe for roasted root vegetables with polenta.
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Pour polenta mixture into a greased 8-inch-square baking pan, and smooth top.
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Add the polenta and cook, stirring as needed, until thick and cooked, 30 minutes.
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Dinner tonight is roasted spiced cauliflower, falafel with an herby yogurt sauce, and polenta.
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Dishes like marinara sauce and polenta can sit on warm for hours without suffering.
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Polenta is the relationship therapist mediating between us and the chilling winds of autumn.
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Osso Buco is a veal dish that is traditionally served with risotto or polenta.
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Then we'll make polenta with mushrooms and soy for dinner and call ourselves good.
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Make sure to use a wooden spoon, not metal, to whip the polenta. 8.
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The polenta, for example, was mixed with mascarpone to give it a smoother consistency.
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Fan that I am, polenta for dinner is always a winner in my book.
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It could be a good weekend for duck ragù on a raft of polenta.
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As partner for a bowl of polenta with truffles, broccoli pesto was unexpectedly sensible.
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In this version, I bake the polenta instead of simmering it on the stove.
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Ceramic plates were heaped with salad and polenta, which they devoured with real flatware.
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Shrimp and grits gets an Italian twist with tomatoey shrimp over top of polenta.
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Most Americans, however, are familiar with the kind of golden polenta made with cornmeal.
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Free slivers of thin-crust pizza and bites of baked polenta come with a drink.
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We eat chicken cacciatore, polenta, and kale salad for dinner while finishing up Russian Doll.
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After cooking the polenta (step 2), move directly to sautéing the oyster mushrooms (step 5).
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I'm making polenta-baked eggs with corn, tomatoes, and fontina from a Smitten Kitchen cookbook.
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There we were fed quail eggs on polenta, and salmon with crème fraîche for breakfast.
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Trabocchi recommends eating the dish with a creamy polenta, especially if you're on a budget.
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There is a mention of an "egg tamale," which she wound up making with polenta.
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Or you could just eat it for dinner tonight, accompanied by some rice, or polenta.
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Cooking polenta was a stove-side ritual in our house when I was growing up.
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This easy, cheesy polenta bake will stay in your holiday arsenal for years to come.
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But like its Italian compatriots risotto and pasta, fragrant, creamy polenta deserves its own spotlight.
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Baking polenta eliminates this risk (and yes, I should have lowered the heat, lesson learned).
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The new iteration was a full-on gastro pub with delicate fish and truffle polenta.
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Mario Cuomo has said that his mother used to think of Walter Mondale as polenta.
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In fact, you'll often find the bags of the cornmeal itself labeled as polenta, too.
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Here are some ideas from our recipe archives: Polenta Stuffed With Squash and Mushrooms, above.
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Bring stock to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat; gradually whisk in polenta.
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At times, Nonna would feed my grandmother and me together, spooning warm polenta into our mouths.
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Later, I heat leftover pulled pork with a scoop of polenta and steamed cabbage with carrots.
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The polenta was hearty and coarsegrained, so the creaminess of the dish never turned to slime.
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Polenta with stinking Gorgonzola, maybe, and a fork-tender bone of meat from some brave animal.
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The traditional Italian pot used to cook polenta is called piaolo and is made from copper.
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Chef de cuisine Phil Winchester suggests pork belly poutine, roasted cauliflower and bison meatballs on polenta.
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Then, while the polenta bakes, you'll be able to use the stovetop to make the garnish.
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Slice into ½-inch thick pieces and serve over polenta with extra sauce, parmesan, and torn basil.
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Polenta can refer to the creamy porridge itself, which, traditionally, may contain several grains or starches.
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Finely ground polenta (try Colavita brand) provides texture and a savory edge to this simple cake.
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One day, as a young cook in the prep kitchen, I was tasked with cooking polenta.
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In a small sauce pot, bring the water to a boil and slowly whisk in the polenta.
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You'll need to add more liquid later on as the polenta will thicken as it sits. 2.
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Roasted lemon chicken was crispy without being dry, served over polenta with porcini broth and wild mushrooms.
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Try this flavorful meal of chicken braised in balsamic and red-wine vinegars, best served over polenta.
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I channeled, sort of, the Southern American favorite, shrimp and grits, and set my polenta to boil.
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Recipe of the day: End the week with a comforting bowl of polenta topped with fried eggs.
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Recipe: Peach Polenta Cake Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.
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But sweet potatoes, soft polenta, tender white beans or plain steamed rice would all be suitable choices.
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She cooks delicious isitshwala, a kind of thick polenta, which I love to eat with stewed chicken.
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Milled from an heirloom variety of corn, the polenta at Chez Panisse tasted of sweetness and earth.
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I make pan-grilled flank steak over goat cheese polenta with sautéed zucchini and mushrooms on the side.
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I went with the Dracula stew, which limited itself to sausage and chicken, served between mounds of polenta.
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It was served with a fried quail egg, Parmesan polenta, a maple vinaigrette and a honey-glazed onion.
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Mountainous Svaneti is known for its impossibly rustic chvishtari, a pancake-like mix of Georgian polenta and cheese.
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The guests ate blueberry polenta cake and said goodbye to someone they understood to be a single mother.
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Author's Note: It's very difficult to tell the exact quantity of water necessary to obtain a good polenta.
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City Kitchen I have written effusively and often about polenta, the delectable Northern Italian porridge made from cornmeal.
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Grain bowls are trendy these days, but Italians have been on to one in particular — polenta — for centuries.
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I thought it tasted pretty good, so I returned to him with a spoonful of my adjusted polenta.
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Add polenta, in batches, to hot oil, and cook until golden brown and crisp, about 4 minutes per side.
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To serve, place 2 polenta rectangles on a plate; top each with ¼ cup oyster mushrooms and ¼ cup dressed watercress.
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I have a huge lunch of two chicken breasts with a bit of brisket, clams, polenta, and kelp noodles.
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Remove from the pan and serve with a wedge of lemon and soft polenta and parmesan for cold nights.
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When ready, spread the "polenta" in a thin layer onto the prepared baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
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The polenta with lamb sauce was the big winner during our first visit, as both elements melded quite well.
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Originating in the days of ancient Rome, polenta is a cornmeal dish that has become a staple in Milan.
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The region is known for its Prosecco, as well as its rich, buttery pastas, polenta, gnocchi, and gamey meatballs.
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Mr. Fox is known for his polenta, and he was eager to create what he called his "ultra" version.
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Modern Italian cooks follow suit, topping polenta with sausages simmered in tomato sauce, a mushroom stew or braised rabbit.
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And have you made these restaurant-style pork chops yet, with polenta cut through with goat cheese and rosemary?
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I'd wanted so badly to do that polenta justice, and the degree to which I'd been off was exponential.
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The West African grain can be used for soups and baking, in porridge or as a starch like polenta.
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Noodles, potatoes, polenta, rice or quinoa will all work to absorb every drop of that gloriously oniony, meaty sauce.
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Do not let the words polenta and minestrone, stamped in the lid of this sleek stewpot from Italy, limit you.
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Then have the risotto with shrimp and porcini mushrooms, followed by baked duck confit served with polenta, leeks and beets.
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We grow our corn and feed it to our chickens, or mill it into polenta or masa harina for tortillas.
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He makes turkey meatballs over polenta with some roasted veggies, and I pass out watching The West Wing quickly after.
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Recipe: Cheesy Breakfast Egg and Polenta Casserole Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.
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You'll probably have several options to choose from when buying your polenta: coarse, fine, instant or those that aren't labeled.
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And they are absolutely wonderful tossed with pasta and anchovies or with polenta and Parmesan for a more filling meal.
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Polenta and almond flour go into a classic River Cafe dessert and into a different one that recurs at King.
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As a result, she can toggle from chocolate pots de crème to polenta poundcake tiramisù to blueberry cobbler with ease.
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The livelier Bar Room has a less expensive à la carte menu (roasted mushrooms with polenta is $24, and excellent).
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We stop at a café near the BART station for breakfast, and I order polenta with mushrooms and a cold brew.
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A word of warning, though: For the best results, polenta needs a good 45 minutes to an hour on the stove.
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Yotam Ottolenghi reveres classic dishes — but can't help playing around with them, like this baked polenta with corn, eggs and feta.
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I'd make this as a light supper and heap it onto toast; pearl couscous or polenta would also be good alongside.
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Try cheesy breakfast egg and polenta casserole, green strata with goat cheese and herbs or bacon, egg and cheese breakfast casserole.
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Filling up an emptied pistol magazine with polenta and tuna salad … Filling up shotgun shells with fingernail clippings instead of shot.
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They knew that behind Birmingham's new skyscrapers and fancy restaurants that served polenta instead of grits, the Old South still lurked.
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When the polenta is incorporated, bring to a simmer and cook for one to one and a half hours, stirring almost constantly.
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Press a sheet of plastic wrap lightly sprayed with cooking spray directly on polenta, and chill until firm, about 2 hours. 23.
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Before it starts, audience members are offered an actual morsel: blue brie, passion fruit mascarpone, nectarine and a rose petal on polenta.
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A braised short rib served with polenta was flavorful but a little stringy, suggesting it might not have been braised long enough.
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" Details: "Salmon en croutes: stuffed with arugula and Boursin cheese, served with creamy polenta asparagus, roasted red pepper and sherry-glazed mushrooms.
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She started by replacing frozen broccoli for the fresh kind and preparing locally produced polenta and basmati rice instead of baked potatoes.
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Only one of them ever opened, in Stamford, Connecticut, and within a year, it had already served its last Shrimp & Polenta Plate.
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Cook on medium heat for 45 minutes or until the polenta doesn't stick to the pot, stirring frequently to avoid sticking. 10.
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The polenta was too popular — people who didn't want the chicken were disappointed that they couldn't order the side dish by itself.
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Then for serving, I like to plop chicken, onions and rhubarb into a bowl of buttery polenta to catch all the juices.
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Recipe: Herby Polenta With Corn, Eggs and Feta Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest.
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A Good Appetite Not just a side dish, creamy polenta, topped with blue cheese and sautéed leeks, is a dinner-worthy main.
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Try out this great recipe I scored from the chef Chris Jaeckle back in 2014, for polenta with mushrooms and soy (above).
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Customers, surrounded by heaters and heat lamps to keep them toasty, savored polenta, buttered spinach dumplings and warm libations, like mulled wine.
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Hedges elevated to head a pass that was send into the area, and Polenta kicked him in the side, drawing the whistle.
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I added a little polenta to my brothy corn and clam soup toward the same end, and to reinforce the corn flavor.
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I'd like to eat it with polenta, I think, and some reader variation (check the notes!) on our recipe for Utica greens.
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The evening menu is a la carte, with options such as polenta lasagna with spinach and ratatouille or grilled fish with yams.
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I like Nigella Lawson's recipe for a blueberry polenta upside-down cake this time of year, and always a big banana pudding.
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You can serve mixed grill mounded onto a drift of hummus, as you might spoon a thick ragù on top of polenta.
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Cooking at home, she leaned on Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook and Deborah Madison's cookbooks, making meals of baked polenta and asparagus risotto.
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On her menu for the night: Alba ordered the brick chicken with quinoa polenta, pistachios, kale and chervil pesto, the restaurant tells PEOPLE.
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On my way home, I pick up some mozzarella cheese, almond milk, cream cheese, tea, salt and vinegar chips, and polenta at Vons.
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Make the polenta simply, seasoning the cornmeal with just a little salt and finishing it with a few tablespoons of good olive oil.
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There, on a large platter, was a golden mound of polenta, surrounded by a full-flavored, aromatic, saucy partnership of land and sea.
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From creamy polenta with mushrooms (above) to chocolate cookies with white chocolate and cherries, here are the recipes you need to cook. cooking
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The result is a rather bumpy type of polenta, full of textures and surprises, and nothing like the silky variety of my childhood.
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My approach stems from a Tuscan vegetable soup I know that uses a small handful of polenta to thicken the broth just slightly.
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This restaurant first opened in 1955, serving angu, a hearty polenta and meat stew with African roots (lunch for two, around 23 reais).
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Cleaning stuck-on debris is easy: fill it with water and just let it soak: Lagostina Minestrone e Polenta five-quart stewpot, $199.99, homeandcookstore.com.
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While in Russia, Polenta, as well as the cheese of his native valley, and of course the mountains themselves are constantly on Stern's mind.
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For dinner, I make pan-fried tofu slices with a Vietnamese marinade, a bunch of veggies (onions, carrot, zucchini), and use some leftover polenta.
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We make chicken tikka masala, chicken stock (which I freeze to use later for soups, risotto, polenta, etc.), and a beef-veggie stir fry.
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Rather than the Italianate mushroom stew I often make to serve with polenta, I craved something with more personality, perhaps a spicy, creamy curry.
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Corn was at its best, so he could finally introduce a new polenta dish he had come up with too late the previous summer.
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We're planning to make Challah bread, salad, butternut squash and apple soup with red lentils, and an oven polenta with roasted mushrooms and thyme.
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Then I sprinkle them on the steaming polenta, along with some crumbles of Gorgonzola dolce, a gentle blue cheese that will melt on contact.
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So, grate those beets, shred those greens and saute them until tender so that you can pile them over a creamy bowl of polenta.
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Ziegler took his kick from the spot in the 53rd minute after Los Angeles' Diego Polenta fouled FC Dallas' Matt Hedges in the box.
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Cheesy breakfast egg and polenta casserole, overnight French toast, croque-monsieur breakfast casserole and buttery breakfast casserole (made with croissants!) are all lovely options.
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My corn and clam chowder has a somewhat Italian slant: It employs polenta and zucchini, and tastes like summer — bright, spectacular, golden and fleeting.
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When we stopped for lunch I split a polenta with my cousin while Juan Martín ate steak with salad, as he did every day.
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The aroma of polenta and bread and burnt wood penetrated not just his clothes and his skin, he explains, but seeped into his bones.
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From our Plant Powered newsletter series, we start with a creamy bed of polenta, then top with beans, greens and a briny, bright salsa.
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Soon after he starts serving up pork belly and polenta tacos, though, an injustice threatens to knock him back on a path toward violence.
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Part of today's spread: Braised bacon with crispy polenta and quail egg, a crispy quinoa and kale cake, and a smoked salmon cracker thing.
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At her Mezza Luna cooking school, Danny gets a crash course on a hearty northern Italian rabbit and polenta dish—perfect for Montreal's brutal winters.
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"Whatever you can put on pasta, you can put on polenta, which I think of as the soul food of my region in Le Marche."
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The other night, with polenta on the brain and with a pound of fresh wild Gulf shrimp from the fishmonger, I made an impromptu dinner.
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Recipe: Shrimp With Hot Fennel Sausage and Polenta And to drink ... Often when a dish includes tomato sauce, the inclination is to pick a red.
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Most of the time, polenta is a side dish, a buttery space on which to pile a hunk of braised meat or golden roast chicken.
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Noero then founded a gallery in Turin's Fetta di Polenta in 2008, an exceptionally tall, narrow building near the northern edge of the city center.
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In place of polenta with the chicken dish, he substituted boiled potatoes served with a seaweed salsa, a fennel and onion purée, and crisp potato skins.
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Let's say cook another new recipe then, this one from David Tanis: shrimp with hot fennel sausage and polenta, a kind of continental shrimp and grits.
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That way you can clear Saturday night for Melissa Clark's new recipe for baked polenta — a taste of comfort as spring struggles to make itself known.
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Gritty Italian polenta and blanched almonds find their way into seasonal desserts, like the caramelized upside-down cake made with a mix of nectarines and peaches.
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Serve it all with a hunk of good bread or something else to sop up the juices (polenta, mashed potatoes, noodles) and a big green salad.
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Sarah, on the other hand, got the Parmesan Polenta with white truffles from Alba and chicken sausage, which added $27 to the bill because the truffles.
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Just whip up some polenta, flip it onto a cutting board, and you'll be transported to a warmer, safer place than Montreal's harsh winters in no time.
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To celebrate the opening, Batali has shared his recipe for duck egg with polenta and herb-almond pesto, which patrons can order starting tomorrow at 7 a.m.
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My husband had a Caesar side salad, a cup of tomato soup (which was amazing), and a small plate of maple-glazed pork belly on creamy polenta.
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Today she shows us her secret to making her lentil Bolognese with creamy polenta, a menu item she likes to have for those who aren't meat-inclined.
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A gluten-free diner might be presented, unprompted, with an off-menu farinata, a chickpea-flour pancake, and a bowl of creamy polenta and short-rib ragù.
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The polenta was then used as a base on which a simple sauce, made with minced beef, garlic, diced carrots and a tomato or two, was served.
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The locally sourced duck à l'orange, dry aged for eight to 14 days, is set atop a bed of creamy Parmesan polenta with thin sheets of turnips.
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Rice pilaf, a mound of polenta or even a torn-up loaf of crusty bread will suffice; this braised lamb has enough personality for the whole plate.
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These rustic outdoor restaurants are all about hearty local flavors: boards of cheese and air-dried salami, vitello tonnato, polenta infused with savory mushrooms and pork shank.
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"If I came home and found my mother making cornbread and tomato sauce, I knew we were going to have polenta that night," he says again. And?
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Later, to return the favor, my blender blew a load of carrots and onions onto the floor and sink while I tried to make polenta and meat sauce.
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For the menu, guests enjoyed Chinese chicken and lobster cobb salads, salmon with mango salsa, filet mignon, chicken paillard, grilled asparagus, fried potatoes, spinach and grilled polenta cakes.
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Dinner evolves into heartier fare like short ribs with polenta and chard, wood-roasted shrimp, and steak with potato gratin: 140 West 30th Street, 212-239-0570, tillandsprocket.com.
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For the menu, guests enjoyed Chinese chicken and lobster Cobb salads, salmon with mango salsa, filet mignon, chicken paillard, grilled asparagus, fried potatoes, spinach and grilled polenta cakes.
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Alongside fresh-pressed juices, breakfast offerings include polenta bread with maple butter, strained yogurt and London honey, while lunch serves up crayfish, chicory, blood orange and fennel salad.
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Ranging from a porridge-like consistency to a solid loaf that can be sliced, polenta can be served on its own or as a complement to meat dishes.
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Instead of polenta bubbling on the stove and her sister's warm embrace, Nora encounters Rachel's beloved German shepherd hanging from the banister, strangled by his leash, rotating eerily.
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The pink-lemonade blueberries and okra side dish vanished at season's end; the polenta and chicken-liver mousse are still available à la carte, updated with autumnal flavors.
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Of all the nasty kitchen burns I've endured over the years, none has been worse than the crimson blister on my wrist left by a splatter of polenta.
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I had been certain he had ruined the pot and turned my polenta into a salt lick, but the term salty did not apply to what I tasted.
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Once polenta has reached a creamy consistency, season with salt and pepper and add enough of the best olive oil you can find until you start to feel guilty.
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They also serve other Chilean specialties—served atop their artisanal, local tableware—such as pastel de choclo, a kind of sweet corn polenta gratin that won't leave you hungry.
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Squeeze a lemon over the top when it's hot and serve it next to the polenta, with a sprinkle of chopped parsley and a final drizzle of olive oil.
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On a recent Sunday, a lunch celebrating the food of Veneto started with a delightfully odd fritto misto of polenta, lemon slices, little sage-and-anchovy sandwiches, and radicchio.
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At the friggitoria (fried food stand) of Di Matteo, the cuoppo, or paper cone, of deep-fried items like potato fritters, polenta and eggplant is an unmissable Naples delicacy.
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Rice is an obvious choice, but food writer, blogger and cookbook author Katie Workman says don't overlook other grain options, such as bulgur, polenta or cornmeal, farro and quinoa.
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Highlights from James Beard nominee's menu include crispy polenta fritters with ricotta and honey, pasta with rigatoni with spicy sauce and tomatoes, and the lemon zeppole with chocolate dipping sauce.
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Finish your beach hopping with a snack of funchi (polenta) fries and fresh lemonade at Restaurant Playa Forti, where you can watch daredevils jump off a cliff into the sea.
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For breakfast we had Pura (polenta with milk), for lunch we had Kvrgusa (pastry with chicken and sour cream) and for dinner we had Punjene Paprike (peppers filled with meat).
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But I usually want polenta to be the main event, and to have the meaty part of the meal play the lesser role, much as it was served long ago.
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But even today, there's nothing better than a bowl of plain polenta with a dab of good butter or olive oil, salt and pepper, and a handful of grated Parmesan.
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And a lot of great recipes, too: among them, David Tanis's spring vegetable stew (above), served with brown-butter couscous, and Melissa Clark's polenta with blue cheese and crispy leeks.
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I suspected that the salt had been left out of the soupy polenta served under Babbo's long-running (and still terrific) beef braised in red wine, the brasato al Barolo.
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In an adaptation of cacio e pepe , Fraser (who is also the head chef at the trendy vegetable-focussed Narcissa) lards polenta with butter and piles on smooth shiitake mushrooms.
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Polenta, macaroni and cheese, risotto, even savory oatmeal: They're meals you can take to the sofa and balance in your lap, spoon in one hand, remote control in the other.
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Overall it means a government keener to confront foreigners, vested interests and especially the sort of polenta-munching elites who share each other's globalising enthusiasms, holiday villas and platforms at Davos.
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Guests dined on mini fried chicken and waffles, buttermilk biscuits, polenta dusted salmon and short ribs at tables adorned with vintage lace and greenery and lit with exposed bulbs hanging overhead.
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Plate this up real nice with a bed of creamy polenta, a smattering of charred corn kernels, perfectly cross-hatched scallops, and skewers of cherry tomatoes that are sure to impress.
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But now, a few of the items, including popping corn and cornmeal for polenta, are being sold at the retail counter at Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria, in the East Village.
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The polpette arrived on an oblong wooden board (as did many dishes): five small meatballs with dollops of gently spiced pomodoro sauce, riding herd on a saddle of wondrously creamy polenta.
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They're here today to make a Roman-style chicken saltimbocca with cheesy polenta, a home-cook-friendly version of a veal saltimbocca that occasionally appears on their newly-launched lunch menu.
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He detailed the three sides: housemade toast with chicken-liver mousse and poached gizzards; polenta that used corn six ways; and an okra confit with gribenes, crispy bits of chicken skin.
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Los Angeles tied it in the 81st minute as Skjelvik got behind the Seattle defense after a pass from Diego Polenta and scored his first career goal in 50 MLS matches.
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Serve it with a big green salad and some good bread or polenta for a vegetable-focused meal, or as a side dish alongside meat or seafood for something more substantial.
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All that simplicity could set you up nicely for a Friday night feast: Gabrielle Hamilton's precise and fantastic recipe for swordfish piccata, good with polenta and a platter of braised greens.
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Constant stirring of anything that requires the development or hydration of starch—not just polenta, but also béchamel sauce, for example—is certainly important in order to avoid the formation of lumps.
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After pasta, you might investigate that supper-club lamb chop, or the polenta and stewed onions under a lobe of calf's liver, so creamy inside it's like a pink organ-meat custard.
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People in the outside world, many of whom happily eat yellow maize, may wonder what the fuss is all about - Italians consider their yellow maize version, polenta, a bit of a delicacy.
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Clockwise from left: diver scallops Alfredo; stuffed rabbit with cippolini and pistachio; ribollita soup with white beans and kale; a side of grappa carrots; turbot al forno with white polenta and caviar.
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Aujourd'hui, elle nous révèle le secret pour préparer ses lentilles à la bolognaise avec de la polenta crémeuse, un plat qu'elle aime servir à ceux qui ne sont pas fous de la viande.
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I can see you now, minding your own business in the kitchen, mashing kale into polenta—or whatever it is people will eat in the future—the radio burbling away on the windowsill.
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While the polenta cooked, I peeled the shrimp and gathered the other ingredients for a spicy stew: a few hot Italian fennel sausages, an onion, some tomato purée and a splash of wine.
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I have to give credit here to my test kitchen colleague Noor Murad, who had the foresight to turn polenta on its head by cooking it in the oven instead of the stovetop.
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Grilled beets with radicchio, cauliflower with capers and raisins, and brussels sprouts with Cheddar and cashews are listed alongside Icelandic char with dill and sorrel, and beef with polenta, horseradish and mustard greens.
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Mr. Ly cooks his congee with some chicken stock until it has the consistency of polenta, then spoons over it some sweet and savory braised oxtails in honey, fish sauce and brown butter.
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Shrimp and grits, billed as "New Orleans meets Italy," could have been a mess: It started with prosciutto di Parma polenta and bacon fried brussels sprouts, then gave the shrimp a Sambuca tarragon glaze.
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With runny eggs embedded in it, as well as lots of greens and chunks of cheese, it is wonderful in a very different way from my father's polenta, rich and generous and gratifyingly complex.
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So far I've had a Larabar, the blueberry smoothie, a small bowl of polenta and tomato sauce, a frozen masala burger with mango chutney from Trader Joe's, some gluten-free cornbread, and the caramel chips.
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It's the happy, California restaurant of your dreams: Sunny and full of organic endives and polenta during the day; glowy and passing expertly made Aperol cocktails and sea bass with Jerusalem artichokes at night. Sigh.
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Mr. Bauer commissions small regional farms to grow heirloom varieties of wheat and corn: Turkey Red, Red Fife and Appalachian White wheats, along with Cateto and Caribbean landrace corn for All Souls' polenta-crust pizzas.
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I wasn't going to spend $60 dollars on the Polenta, so the only way I would have been able to try it is if Sarah got it — and, knowing Sarah's love for truffles, she did.
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There were plenty of sweet treats, too, including homemade scones with clotted cream and jam, white and dark chocolate cheesecake, lemon and rosemary polenta cake with cream cheese, dates, and lots of pieces of fruit.
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WITH an "Evening of Bagpipes and Polenta" (boiled cornmeal, popular in north and central Italy), the mountain town of Barga will on September 3rd launch one of Italy's more unusual cultural festivals: its annual Scottish Week.
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I loved David Tanis's new recipe for rhubarb trifle, Melissa Clark's new recipe for grilled pork with whole spices and garlic bread and Yotam Ottolenghi's new recipe for an egg, polenta and spring vegetable bake (above).
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I get bulk polenta, quinoa, salt toothpaste, two kinds of sesame seaweed mix (really trying to find which one is my favorite) and a bag of Barbara's Kitchen cheese puffs (jalapeño flavor, the only flavor worth eating).
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As for those who come to this dispatch on Wednesdays looking for the vague instructions we call no-recipe recipes, we're thinking of another porridge-like riff: polenta seasoned with olive oil and then paired with crab.
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As skiers slalom by the chalet's picture windows, diners in moon boots fuel up with the simple, robust dishes of Alpine lodge cuisine: rösti potato pancakes and bratwurst, polenta with porcini mushrooms, lamb Wiener schnitzel and more.
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"Most of them are inspired by things we ran as specials," he said, citing a hillock of crisp polenta with stewed sweet potatoes, marinated sardines with grilled avocado, and a classic braised lamb shank with salsa verde.
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For the main, Jeremy Charles, chef-owner of Newfoundland's legendary Raymonds, made a ground meat ragu served on a bed of polenta, something that made him a little uneasy because of how familiar it was to Italians.
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A vegan entree deploys polenta in a novel construction, molded into a large disk completely enclosing a core of butternut squash purée, then baked and served over greens tossed with eggless pappardelle pasta in a light basil pesto.
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When the menu defines kacamak as "cream with polenta," the cream in question is kajmak, stirred into a fine-grained, nearly white mass of cornmeal that takes on the lightly fluffed quality of really well-made mashed potatoes.
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I bet it'd go great with this recipe for polenta and goat cheese that I used to make for dinner parties when the children were small, to serve with maple-glazed pork chops, apples, chopped pecans and candied ginger.
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On the schedule at Industry City are a series of "date night" classes covering seasonal spring menus, typically a braised chicken dish with cherry tomatoes, goat cheese polenta and roasted asparagus with a dessert of strawberry-lemon spelt torte.
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The coniglio alla cacciatora , or hunter's rabbit, came as nubs of tender, gamey meat on a bed of polenta larded with cheese and butter, and the onglet appeared as great red slices of hanger steak, alongside al-dente chickpeas.
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Once, when Romana Raffetto went up front to attend to a dinnertime crowd, a customer, disappointed that his favorite polenta had sold out, picked up a package of cavatelli with broccoli rabe and tentatively waved it at Mrs. Raffetto.
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Consider me a fanboy when it comes to the ideally crunchy fritto misto, and the polenta, too, a $13 bowl of warm fluff that has absorbed its weight, and then some, in milk and creamy young cow's milk cheese.
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"Stirring polenta in an open pot for the entire time it cooks undoubtedly yields the best product, most in terms of fragrance and, to a certain but lesser extent, in terms of flavor," writes Marcella Hazan in herEssentials of Italian Cooking.
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A misnamed "clam bake" consisted of an entire lobster, poached and shelled, the tail propped showily atop a custardy polenta studded with corn kernels, tricked out with two spears of asparagus and a single clam, in a luxuriously buttery broth.
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A pickled shallot and parsley salad paired with the excellent in-house dry-aged sirloin, the combination of which created a beef entree that was summertime-light; the crisp and golden polenta surrounding the beef tasted like memorably savory French toast.
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More bell peppers appear in speca me maze, blistered and charred — red and black, the colors of the Albanian flag, Mr. Demce points out — and draped in a meld of cornmeal, heavy cream and cheese, velvety like polenta but looser.
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But there, in the bowls and on the plates, is a bisque made with local parsnips; polenta from Wild Hive Farm in Clinton Corners; cheese from Chaseholm Farm in Pine Plains; and a bounty of vegetables grown throughout the Hudson Valley.
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The three-hour, sweet-and-savory course (€150 per person) involves dishes like roasted duckling filet with quince and creamy polenta, along with desserts like warm molten chocolate cake with orange custard or roasted mango or hazelnut crumble with yogurt sorbet.
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Transylvanian cuisine is not for the meat-and-dairy-averse: dishes include bulz, a sort of polenta casserole bubbling with bryndza cheese, along with sausages, slanina (smoked pork fat) and a board with seven types of locally made goat cheese.
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But here's the most compelling argument in their favor: A bowlful of home-cooked beans bathed with their own magically delicious, creamy broth — served on rice, farro or polenta, or as part of a salad, soup or stew — makes a terrific meal.
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In Venice, locals prefer foods like polenta and fresh fish, according to Travel and Leisure, and "iconic" dishes include fegato alla veneziana (liver and onions) sarde in saor (sardines with raisins, onions and pine nuts) and flash-fried moeche (soft-shell crabs).
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In nice weather there's a beer garden atmosphere as waiters carry heavy plates of sarmalute cu mamaliguta (meat-stuffed cabbage rolls, polenta and sour cream, 35 lei) and papanasi (fist-size homemade doughnuts with sweet cheese, sour cream and jam, 21 lei).
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The homespun meal usually begins with a soup, whether cold cucumber or fish caldo, as well as fresh-baked flatbread and fried polenta sticks, while the mains are designed around perfectly cooked pieces of fish and meat that Decq sources from friends.
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Mr. Stowell's restaurant Wolf will be on the second floor with a mostly Italian menu that includes some Pacific Northwest items, like king crab and king salmon, along with polenta fritters, delicata squash with maitake mushrooms, spaghetti with uni butter and a burger.
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I love this new recipe from Melissa Clark for roasted sausages, grapes and onions in a vinegar-spiked sauce, which would be great with polenta if you're serving a family filled with growing humans, or with a sharp green salad if you're not.
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Once the ugali is cooked, it's left to set—a bit like polenta—after which people grab a handful, squeezing the dough in the palm of their hand into a bowl-shape with which they scoop up the rest of the meal.
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There are wonderful starches, like the cilantro parsnip purée that accompanied tender braised short ribs, the panko mac and cheese that came with the honey teriyaki baby back ribs and the disk of manchego polenta placed under a meaty and large crab cake appetizer.
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Then again, though, you do need this recipe for peach polenta cake (above) that Tejal Rao prized from the kitchen at King in Manhattan, where the chefs Clare de Boer and Jess Shadbolt make it with whatever stone fruit is sweet, juicy and in season.
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And the custom still exists, for those remembering or imagining village life, of pouring a pot of steaming polenta on a large board, spooning a saucy concoction over it, and placing it on the table for communal consumption and distributing spoons instead of plates.
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It's ridiculously delicious, whether you make it into a pita pocket (good with cucumbers, tomato and onion, also with hot sauce) or simply mound the chicken on top of a few spoonfuls of hummus, as if it were polenta and the chicken a thick sauce.
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My father, who is from an Italian family, didn't cook it very often, but, when he did, he watchfully and continuously stirred the pot with great patience, making sure the polenta turned out perfectly smooth and creamy, and didn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
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K., maybe not.) While it would be easy to consume this sauce day after day over bowls of polenta or different pasta shapes (it loves a thick noodle, like fettuccine or pappardelle), it also freezes well — meaning this seasonal delight could carry you deep into winter.
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Here, too, seafood figures prominently, from a luscious crostino of piovra, lardo e melanzana (octopus, lardo and eggplant) to Bancogiro's signature ricotta salata con gamberi al curry (salted ricotta and curried shrimp over a rectangle of creamy squid ink polenta) — the latter popular with the gluten-free crowd.
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The airline is raising the velvet rope for the bright new facility, which features showers with rainfall shower heads, 10 daybeds with Saks Fifth Avenue-branded blankets (the airline said the blankets are washed on site) and an extensive menu that includes dishes such as polenta fries and braised lamb.
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If you can chop stuff and put it in the oven, you'll master pretty much all of these dishes, including sweet potato and mushroom polenta; harissa cauliflower steaks; and miso tofu with aubergine, which I was lucky enough to have Iyer cook for me on a visit to her home earlier this year.
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Mr. Boulud has created a menu of five dishes for first class such as lobster with curried coconut sauce, black rice and bok choy and lamb chop with zucchini pesto and cheese polenta; the business class menu includes four dishes like chicken tagine with cauliflower and couscous and salmon with fennel, chickpeas and sumac.
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The chicken cacciatore was as far from the ubiquitous drowned-in-tomato-sauce version as one could get: Crispy pieces of roast chicken sat near creamy polenta with thick pomodoro sauce, olives and roasted cremini mushrooms in the center, and thin slices of ricotta salata were sparingly draped here and there to add a creamy note.
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It is rustic American, strongly farm-to-table (farms are about an hour away), with dishes like Honeycrisp apples with delicata squash and country ham; mussels in white wine cream with fennel and turmeric; grilled squid with chickpeas, celery and Aleppo pepper; grilled swordfish with white beans and oven-roasted tomatoes; and smoked short ribs with polenta.
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And then, on Friday night, I'm excited to make these recipes from David Tanis's new column for The Times: an appetizer of shaved fennel and celery salad with lemon and Parmesan; a shareable main course of polenta spread out on a board below a sausage-studded sugo; and dessert of roasted pears with honey, rosemary and walnuts.
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Servings: 260-23 Ingredients 24 pounds to 25 ounces rabbit, cut into pieces26 sprigs fresh sage, chopped27 sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped½ cup pancetta, diced½ cup unsalted butter93 tablespoons olive oil29 cup brandy245/210 cup white wine1 cup heavy cream (35 percent) for the polenta: 2 ½ cups corn flour8.5 cups water1 ½ teaspoons saltadd water during cooking (see author's note) Directions 1.
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As in Australia, where the tech sector and gig economies are also growing, this frees up time to breakfast on kale polenta with a fried egg and linger over pancakes and porridge — and to post a photo of the latte art atop your perfect flat white (an Australian espresso-and-steamed-milk drink that is neither a cappuccino nor a latte).
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During the Akron stop of the bus trip, while the Silicon Valley investors mingled with local officials over a dinner spread of vegan polenta pizza and barbecue sliders, Mr. McKenna, the San Francisco venture capitalist, told me that he felt a difference in people's attitudes in cities like these, where the tech industry's success is still seen as something to celebrate.
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This latest incarnation, founded by a baker-chef team 20 years ago, is as popular as ever for its hearty breakfasts: clay-pot poached eggs with chorizo polenta in a black bean ragout (15 Australian dollars), a delectable selection of baked goods, such as strawberry and pistachio tarts (7 Australian dollars), and prune-and-walnut sourdough bread (300 Australian dollars).
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About a mile away, I inhaled hemp-nori whole wheat bread at Gjusta, the sprawling four-year-old bakery-deli-cafe co-owned by the local chef Travis Lett, and then walked three blocks to Rose Cafe, a Venice institution that was revamped in 2015 with a menu by Jason Neroni (formerly of Superba); the lavender-hued polenta loaf was a high point of my trip.
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Progress also entails a deep appreciation for Silicon Valley: During the Akron stop of the bus trip, while the Silicon Valley investors mingled with local officials over a dinner spread of vegan polenta pizza and barbecue sliders, Mr. McKenna, the San Francisco venture capitalist, told me that he felt a difference in people's attitudes in cities like these, where the tech industry's success is still seen as something to celebrate.
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In my still somewhat delirious condition, I felt that what was needed was someone to celebrate the Via Alpina's vision of the good life—to sing the goulash and polenta, the bunk beds and the benches, the inextricable joys and pains of the trail, the Hobbitish congeniality of it all—as eloquently as Shelley had sung the desolation of the glaciers or Rousseau the uplifting terror of the torrents and the precipices.
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The yolk-gooey sandwiches at Eggslut in the Grand Central Market, and a few steps away, the breakfast raviolo with ricotta and the polenta porridge with Santa Monica honey at Knead & Co. At Moon Juice, Amanda Chantal Bacon's avant-garde juice bar of the moment, a rainbow-hued panoply of elixirs, milks and powders is said to aid with "anything you're looking to achieve energetically or physically," as Sean Brennan, an employee in the Silver Lake branch, recently explained.
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Namely, there was the food, which is served on old-fashioned china and could be described as seasonal-voluptuous: roast chicken for four; mighty slabs of mushroom toast smeared with homemade ricotta; crisp-creamy roasted cauliflower served in a puddle of parmesan sauce; a trio of scallops, fat as tuffets, plopped on a bed of polenta cooked in whey; and a sardine tin full of lethally rich shrimp butter, tinted scarlet with a dusting of Aleppo pepper and accompanied by toasted rye-sourdough bread.
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Servings: 4-6Prep time: 30 minutesTotal time: 3 hours for the sauce: ¼ cup|53 grams olive oil 2 carrots, peeled and chopped 2 stalks of celery, chopped 13 medium yellow onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed 2 (28-ounce|22 grams) cans whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand 23 sprigs fresh basil 21 tablespoons|24 grams unsalted butter kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste for the braciole: 2350 ½ cups|28 grams fresh breadcrumbs ½ cup|23 grams grated parmesan, plus more to serve ½ cup|22 grams grated provolone cheese 22 tablespoons basil, finely chopped, plus more to serve 25 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste2 pounds|950 grams beef chuck, butterflied and pounded ½-inch thick ⅓ cup|80 ml olive oil 1 cup|250 ml dry white wine cooked polenta, to serve 23.
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