I'll eat semolina (cream of wheat). I love it and oatmeal. No accounting for taste.
Yonnie On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oops... I forgot to add the link to that story. While it is in Russian, the > pictures describe tell the story well: > http://www.planetaskazok.ru/vdragunsky/deniskinyrasskazytajnoestanovitsjajavnym > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > >> >> >> What other list would give you culinary information about simple food from >> around the world?! >> >> On a serious note, I had never noted that polenta is made with corn. >> (You can tell, I am not a big fun of polenta.) >> I've heard of mamalyga (mamaliga) which is traditional for Moldavia, >> Romania and parts of Western Ukraine, but I am not sure if I ever tried it. >> >> In any case, it is nice to connect the dots: grits - polenta - mamaliga - >> [Jamaica-Rhode Island] Johnnycakes/Journey cakes ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake ) >> >> >> As for adding various things, - in the former Soviet Union, a frequent >> meal given to kids was a semolina porridge (I've heard it called "cream of >> wheat" in the US). Many kids hated it. (I still do!) >> So, there was a popular (pre-school) kids story about a boy who was told >> that in order to go to a tour he must eat a full plate of semolina-based >> porridge. To make it edible, he was sequentially adding salt, sugar, then >> horseradish, ... then he throws it away into the window (of a multistorey >> building), and that porridge ends up on the hat and head of a passerby >> below. >> >> >> Igor >> >> >> >> >> >> Bob W-PDML Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:29:57 -0700 >> >> In Romania their version of polenta is called mamaliga. I had some one >> evening at a restaurant in Bucarest and it was better than any polenta I've >> ever had, although I admit I've never had any in Florence. >> >> >> B >> >> >> >>> On 23 Mar 2015, at 22:18, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not fond of grits, but I love good polenta. As part of a private >>> tour of the Uffizi, my wife and I had dinner at what was said to be >>> one of the best neighborhood restaurants in Florence. Everything was >>> wonderful, but the polenta was simply spectacular. I have never been >>> able to find any up to that standard in the US, but I enjoy trying. >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> actually, I eat oatmeal the same way I eat grits... butter , salt pepper >>>> and >>>> bacon crumbled on it occasionally. would'nt dream of putting >>>> anything sweet on any porridge >>>> (My father was born in Atlanta GA) >>>> >>>> ann >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 3/23/2015 14:45, John wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Most southerners would be horrified at the idea, but you can always add >>>>> a bit of cream & sugar & eat them like oatmeal. >>>>> >>>>> On 3/23/2015 2:05 PM, Tom Reese wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> grits are okay if served infrequently in small quantities >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> An interesting discussion. I had never heard the term "grits" before. >>>>>>> Here, >>>>>>> mieliepap is the staple diet of the masses and a popular side dish >>>>>>> with >>>>>>> tomato relish at a braaivleis (barbeque to you Westerners!). >>>>>>> Commercial >>>>>>> maize meal is finely ground but the rural variety is hand ground & >>>>>>> quite >>>>>>> coarse by comparison - truly gritty! Oh, & our maize is the white >>>>>>> variety >>>>>>> although some yellow is imported, especially in drought years like >>>>>>> 2015. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Alan C >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
