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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trade the usual spaghetti for polenta and you’re left with a meal that’s elegant enough to serve to company, yet still ...

SAN DIEGO — While traveling in the Swiss and Italian Alps skiing, I found all the ski areas have some version of polenta. Whether it be creamy served with a ragu or wild mushrooms. Or fried and topped ...

We asked Kevin Gentile, chef-owner of the “eclectic Italian” Gentile’s restaurant in Syracuse, to come up with some interesting ways to serve polenta. He offered two — polenta croutons that he used ...

The maxim “no pain, no gain” doesn’t resound in the kitchen the way that it does in the gym. Except maybe when it comes to stinging nettles, a common weed that looks like mint, cooks up like spinach, ...

I look at shelf-stable tubes of polenta and only see the paths not taken toward deliciousness. They showcase the exact opposite of what usually goes into great polenta: coarsely ground cornmeal for ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. cornmeal bowl with corn - Fcafotodigital/Getty Images Have you ever wondered about the difference between polenta and cornmeal ...

Polenta, that mild-in-flavor cornmeal that hails from Italy, hasn’t yet experienced the universal acceptance of other starchy sides such as mashed potatoes. So if you’re wondering if you should just ...