Category: Rice-Beans-Grains-Seeds

RECIPE: Pumpkin Sage Polenta With Roasted Vegetables

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If you’ve never cooked polenta, it’s a great comfort food—and gluten-free, too. We don’t know why Americans don’t eat more of it—and more parsnips, too, while we’re at it. (Parsnips [photo #2] are one of the delicious fall vegetables roasted for this recipe.) Fall and winter months beg for a dish of warm, creamy polenta.…
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RECIPE: Fried Eggs & Polenta For Brunch & Lunch

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[1] Comfort food: warm, creamy polenta topped with a fried egg and sautéed cherry tomatoes (photo © Good Eggs). [2] Cherry tomatoes are sauteed into a jammy sauce, called “burst tomatoes” (photo © Barilla). [3] Buy a box of polenta. You can use it at any meal of the day (photo © Delallo). [4] An…
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PRODUCT: 15-Minute Risotto & The History Of Risotto

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One of the most popular ways of cooking rice in Italy, risotto is a Northern Italian rice dish cooked with stock or broth*, stirring regularly until it reaches a creamy consistency. Risotto can be embellished in many ways, from saffron to mushrooms to lobster and beyond. While we love risotto, we don’t have patience to…
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RECIPE: Eggplant Parm Lasagna

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To many of us, it’s a decision between ordering lasagna, eggplant parm, or chicken parm. What if there were eggplant parm lasagna? And what if you added in some chicken parm? DeLallo has made the decision easy with this Eggplant Parm Lasagna recipe. If you want to make it a triple-play with chicken parm, add…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ancient Grains Are New Again

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September is National Whole Grains Month, an occasion to revisit some oldies but goodies. Thanks to King Arthur Baking (formerly King Arthur Flour) for this primer on eight* ancient grains. “Ancient grains” is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals, that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective…
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