Perfect Polenta Patties

Go beyond bagels and bacon.

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

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I tend to like a rather loose polenta, so my leftover strategy is to blob the loose porridge onto a sheet pan and chill them – checking in the chilling to make the blobs into patties. Leave to chill. (Freeze, if you wish.)...

with Olive Oil, Parm-Reggiano was next, thinly sliced beets were so sweet and tasty.Entrees were Fennel Garlic Lamb patties with creamy polenta and roasted peppers. Pot Roast with roasted vegetables, and Sole with Cauliflower...

are similar but as you can imagine they have “Frenched-UP” the names of the entrees at West 3rd – you know, tomato concasse as opposed to “cooked down in tomato sauce”, "polenta" as opposed to...

I like to make a stack with polenta, salmon patty, goat cheese, eggplant, and arugula. I prefer the ratio of fried polenta-goat cheese-broiled salmon patty-goat cheese-arugula-eggplant with maybe a pinch of diced tomatoes on top.

My husband and I went to Farestart in Seattle for lunch today. I haven’t been there in a long time. Service was very friendly and efficient. I had the Founder’s Field Roast Sandwich – hazelnut-encrusted lentil...

at all. Coconut basmati rice was the perfect foil for grilled veggies, again, perfectly done. We also sampled the lamb patty, served open faced on garlic toast with pesto and I think feta. Lastly, the grilled polenta with...

of merlot, sangiovese and something else. they had a pretty extensive wine list, in my fairly uninformed opinion. anyway, i had baked mussels gratin, mozzerella in bread (enclosed like a jamaican patty), and grilled polenta with...

-season veggies (is egg dairy-heavy for you?) Do a breakfast for dinner one night Salmon Patties Polenta for dinner that you can fry up for breakfast (w/ maple syrup and butter) or for lunch (w/ marinara or pesto) Risotto at night,...

I have several grilled, medium rare, hamburger patties leftover. Just salt and pepper and garlic seasoning on them. I would like to do something with them other than reheat and put into hamburgers buns. Ideas?

of like Indian food meets soul food. I ordered off the menu, which is the same at lunch and dinner, with dishes between $9 and $13 or so. I had the curry tilapia fish with collard greens and a big ball of polenta-type cornmeal...

Campus Drive-In on the south end of Salinas offers day-of-the-week specials such as polenta or all-you-can-eat spaghetti. Yet, the parking lot seems the most packed on Mondays when it features the “dollar menu”. Dollar...