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My mother used to make what I now know to be…polenta. There wasn’t a very large Italian population in South Dakota, probably still isn’t. So, we just didn’t know about things like polenta. So, unknowingly she made polenta, or cornmeal “mush”. Continue reading
Grits are Southern comfort food. I was never that enamoured with them, until I had grits with cream and cheese added. OH, yeah! So good and so versatile. You can eat them as is, with a nice plop of butter, melting and oozing into the grits, or use them as a side, instead of rice or mashed potatoes, or sprinkled with bacon.
Unless your roots lie in Italy, polenta may be pretty unfamiliar. It certainly was for The Goddess. But, she’s a convert. This is a great starting place, if you’ve never made polenta. You can do this and polenta with corn and cheese is just so delicious.