What's the difference between polenta and porridge?
Polenta
Definition:
(n.) Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5 Pour the polenta on to two plates, arrange the grilled radicchio on top, then spoon the anchovy and rosemary sauce on top.
(2) Two hundred and fifty samples of five different foods: desserts, soups, mousses, pre-cooked "polenta" and mashed potatoes, were examined.
(3) Photograph: columbiahillen via GuardianWitness Growing up in Transylvania, one of the local delicacies was a dish called "blankets", made with polenta and cheese, as well as cream and bacon.
(4) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
(5) They may take some persuasion to eat ugali – a polenta-like dish – made from millet or cassava instead of maize.
(6) 4 Stir the butter and provolone through the polenta so they melt in, then season to taste.
(7) (Depending on the brand of polenta it could take up to 600ml water.)
(8) 2 In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, polenta, baking powder, salt, rosemary, crushed peppercorns and fennel.
(9) Down in the village, check out the Locanda Al Monastero di Rolle where a "tagliere" is served on Sunday evenings - the speciality Veneto wooden plate filled with hot polenta and cold cuts, grilled vegetables and cheeses.
(10) If anything, her blog is a colourful rebuke to the commenters who sneer that people on benefits should just make a cheap lentil stew to last them all week: "I do use lentils in my cooking – I make polenta bolognaise, I make burgers out of them – but I do get infuriated by people who say, 'Oh, just eat lentils.'
(11) Polenta and grilled radicchio with rosemary and anchovy sauce This would make a lovely meat-free main; the sauce will keep in the fridge for a couple of days, so you can make it ahead.
(12) Heat the milk in a medium saucepan over a high heat until it's just about to boil, then whisk in the polenta and turn the heat down to low.
(13) Now add the ground almonds, polenta, flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder.
(14) Lunchtime specialities are huge portions for two, such as the peito de boi com arroz e feijão manteiga (beef with rice and brown beans, £8.50), and the rabada com polenta, arroz e agrião (beef tail with polenta, rice and watercress, £9).
(15) The addition of a little polenta gives these cakes a light, fluffy texture.
(16) Brunch takes in carrot cake porridge, superfood granola, grilled grapefruit, herb-oil polenta (and there’s even scrambled eggs and “contraband croissants” for those who want it).
(17) Consistent positive associations were observed with more frequent consumption of bread (odds ratio, OR = 2.1 for colon and 2.2 for rectum for highest vs. lowest tertile), polenta (OR = 2.1 for colon, 1.9 for rectum), cheese (OR = 1.7 for colon, 1.8 for rectum) and eggs (2.5 for colon, 1.9 for rectum), whereas reduced ORs were observed in subjects reporting more frequent consumption of tomatoes (OR = 0.5 for colon and 0.4 for rectum).
(18) 13C in CO2 and plasma glucose, metabolites and insulin concentrations, carbohydrates, and lipid oxidation were measured after ingestion of 76 g glucose equivalent of crackers, pasta, or polenta.
(19) It appears everywhere on gastropub menus ("proper pork pie", "proper mash"), in one-up-from-McDonald's burger joints ("proper hamburgers", promises the London chain Byron), and in the mellifluously matey warbling of Jamie Oliver munching a Vietnamese banh minh in an East End market ("That is a proper, proper sandwich"), and his own dish names: "Proper Bloke's Sausage Fusilli", "Roast of Incredible Game Birds with Proper Polenta".
(20) When a single logistic model was fitted including all food items significant in univariate analysis, the 3 items remaining statistically significant were green vegetables (relative risk, RR = 0.27 for upper vs. lower tertile), polenta (RR = 2.32) and ham (RR = 1.60).
Porridge
Definition:
(n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(2) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(3) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
(4) 2 Crumble the blue cheese into the porridge and then cook on a medium heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until it thickens to your liking.
(5) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.
(6) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
(7) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
(8) Breakfast in the hub is disappointing – with porridge and drinks served in paper cups – and costs an extra £5.
(9) Lady Jenkin’s “let them eat porridge” outburst overshadowed the Church of England’s Feeding Britain report launch.
(10) Fine in the sense of plain porridge, or a grey day on which it neither rains, blows nor shines.
(11) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
(12) I drag myself out of bed about 7.30am, grab some porridge with honey and bananas for breakfast and – if I'm in university that day – walk to campus, which is about two minutes away.
(13) Porridge with blue cheese and honey-roasted walnuts Columbiahillen's porridge adapts a Transylvanian recipe, turning the decidedly non-traditional combination of blue cheese, walnuts and honey into a comforting lunch or breakfast.
(14) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
(15) In boiling tests with neutral porridge no migration of aluminium into the test matrix was observed from the pan.
(16) I had a large bowl of porridge today, which cost 4p.
(17) David Henderson, who lived to 107, gave credit to porridge, prunes, and never going to bed on a full stomach.
(18) But it doesn't stop there – shoppers are also stocking up on frozen salmon or cod fillets, ready-made frozen curries, chocolate-chip cookies and porridge oats.
(19) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
(20) For eight months we have lived on porridge and bread and smuggled yogurt,” says Nabil, a jovial clerk employed by a pharmaceutical company, who did not want his full name published for security reasons.