Simply polenta stew with LOTS of cheese! From Argentina
Do they do this in your countries?
by lovelypucca
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lovelypucca
Simply vegetables with tomato and polenta, and when serving, add lots of cheese! It’s delicious and inexpensive. Here in Argentina, we all make it when we’re in a tight spot, hehe, it’s great!
bitsy88
I like grits and polenta with cheddar cheese, chives, and a bunch of hot sauce. I also like to make extra, spread it on a plate, and refrigerate it so I can slice and fry it in butter the next day.
Edit: forgot to say I’m on the northwest coast of the US
sonofkeldar
What is it called in Argentina?
In English, it’d probably be called grits, porridge, or cereal, not stew. Grits are typically made from hominy like masa, but sometimes they’re yellow corn like polenta. People in the southern US sometimes call yellow grits “mush.” If you fry mush, you get corn pone or hoecakes. Porridge and cereal refer to any thick soup made from, well… cereal grains. Cereal is a pretty outdated term, though. Starting in the 50s, you’d hear people calling it hot-cereal to differentiate from the sugar-filled stuff that comes in a box, and today most people use the names of the specific grain, like oatmeal, for example. So, porridge in the 1850s, cereal around 1900, hot-cereal in the 1950s, and oatmeal today all refer to the same thing. Oats are more common in the northeast, rice porridge is popular along the East coast, and corn is king in the South.
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Simply vegetables with tomato and polenta, and when serving, add lots of cheese! It’s delicious and inexpensive. Here in Argentina, we all make it when we’re in a tight spot, hehe, it’s great!
I like grits and polenta with cheddar cheese, chives, and a bunch of hot sauce. I also like to make extra, spread it on a plate, and refrigerate it so I can slice and fry it in butter the next day.
Edit: forgot to say I’m on the northwest coast of the US
What is it called in Argentina?
In English, it’d probably be called grits, porridge, or cereal, not stew. Grits are typically made from hominy like masa, but sometimes they’re yellow corn like polenta. People in the southern US sometimes call yellow grits “mush.” If you fry mush, you get corn pone or hoecakes. Porridge and cereal refer to any thick soup made from, well… cereal grains. Cereal is a pretty outdated term, though. Starting in the 50s, you’d hear people calling it hot-cereal to differentiate from the sugar-filled stuff that comes in a box, and today most people use the names of the specific grain, like oatmeal, for example. So, porridge in the 1850s, cereal around 1900, hot-cereal in the 1950s, and oatmeal today all refer to the same thing. Oats are more common in the northeast, rice porridge is popular along the East coast, and corn is king in the South.