Ah, polenta. It’s creamy and comforting, but so often misunderstood. Stand over the pot, stirring, for hours on end? No thank you. Enter this hands-off method for creamy oven polenta from Sheela ...

Stacie’s dad often makes this easy baked polenta for dinner parties because it’s not only comforting, hearty and crowd-pleasing, it’s basically hands-off after you’ve seared the pork chops. Which ...

Baked polenta is super popular in Northern Italy, especially in areas like Piemonte, Lombardia, and Veneto. You know, ...

Izy Hossack, author of "Everyday Delicious: Super Tasty Breakfasts, Brunches, Mains, Desserts and Snacks" (Hardie Grant Books, $29.99), knows that her polenta fries are not going to replace regular ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A lot of people don't eat polenta because they think it's a laborious undertaking. But you can make a really good polenta with no more effort than it would take to bake a boxed cake. It's excellent ...

I’ve tried so many ways to cook chicken — fried, baked, crusted, with more things than you can imagine. Why? Because my kids are chicken lovers. Here is one of the methods I use to give them a healthy ...

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Heat a large pot of well-salted water to a boil over high heat. Add rigatoni; cook 6 minutes. Cut the broccoli stems into 1-inch pieces. Add stems to the pot with the ...

Slowly does it in this wintry world. That's why I like making polenta: stirring the pot is meditative and warming and allows the cornmeal to swell and fully cook, opening up the sweet corn flavor.

We call it cornmeal mush. The Italians call it polenta. And they’ve been making it since shortly after Columbus introduced corn to the Old World upon his return from America. At its most simple, ...

We call it cornmeal mush. The Italians call it polenta. And they’ve been making it since shortly after Columbus introduced corn to the Old World upon his return from America. At its most simple, ...