Baked polenta, Southwestern style

[Nancy]

Ingredients: This is a low sodium version


6 cups boiling water
1 1/3 cups cornmeal
3 eggs
3/4 cup margarine or butter, no salt
4 slices Lorraine cheese cut up (if you like this cheese, you could add 2 more slices, it has 1 percent sodium per slice)
3 jalapenas diced
1/2 teas. no salt chili powder
a little cayenne pepper if you like


Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large pot, bring water to a rolling boil before adding the cornmeal. Reduce the heat to low and stir while they thicken.
When the mixture is thick, stir in the eggs followed by margarine, cheese, and jalapenas and spices. Stir until the cheese has melted. Pour mixture into a greased 9x13 inch baking dish.
4 Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes. Cut the polenta into squares and serve.

I cut it up and saute it in a little butter or oil and serve with some no salt, homemade salsa.

 

[hensylee]

Oh, My, My, My.......Bonnie, you better jump right in here and help Nancy. Ain't no way this would pass muster in Georgia.

We just boil up them grits in water, add a little salt. Pour over a few hunks of cheese (any kind that's on sale) and serve hot as you can stand it! Add some fried ham, sunny side up eggs, a couple biscuits w/butter, maybe a little redeye gravy. Course this won't help your heart any, but it's southern ice cream at its best!

 

[Nancy]

I knew I'd get caught by one of you "Southern Belles",LOL.

I'll call it Baked polenta, Southwestern style, instead. It's all low salt, so boiling it up with salted water won't work.

Actually my daughter in Tampa does it your way. She's a transplanted "Sounthern Belle".

 

[Granbonny]

Thanks Ann..

Thanks Ann..

I put duct tape over my hands so I cannot type when I read Nancy's Healthy Heart Recipes... Now, that you came first..she should put some cracklin's in that above cornmeal recipe.(for you Northerner's. Cracklin's is hog hide with the fat on it..fried down to a crisp..We make Cracklin' corn bread My recipe only calls for 1/2 teaspoon of salt...We need to go and kidnap Joe one night. Put a sheet over his head and bring him South. Fatten up that boy... Bonnie

 

[Nancy]

1/2 teas. salt would put into CHF. He'd like nothing better than to have a pepperoni and sausage pizza with double cheese and good salty sauce. But staying a month in the hospital and almost dying from CHF and PH, and surviving by the skin of his teeth, makes him "lust in his heart" only, to quote one of our Presidents.

I told Joe what you said, he got a chuckle out of it , but he said you're trying to kill him.

Is Joe the only person on this board who has to stay low sodium, or do a lot of you "cheat"?

Come on, you low sodium people, help me out here. Bonnie thinks I'm being a meany.

 

[LUVMyBirman]

Actually Nancy.....it's the opposite for me. My cardio wants a higher sodium diet to increase my blood pressue.
It's working great too. Perfect. Not lightheaded.

Sorry Joe has to watch it. Were all watching so much taking something else away on top is tough.

 

[ccrawford]

Nancy- I'm really supposed to be on a low sodium diet. However, located as I am, near the Mason Dixon line, close to all of those lovely southern Belles with all of their charms and their lucious recipes, I sometimes stray from my appointed path. When I hear them talk of their recipes inherited from their great grannies CA Gone from the wind, then my self resolve seems to go poof, and my cardiologists blood pressure goes zoom. What's a guy to do. At least, we're makeing the recipe section a popular place to be, now we gotta be good boys (and girls), and help everybody get skinny. Is that the first step in skinny dippin ?

 

[hensylee]

um....um...um...cracklin bread. Mother used to make her own cracklins. Some local suthen stores still sell them.

Gooder'n snuff and not half as dusty.

 

[Granbonny]

Cracklin's

Cracklin's

Taste like pork skins. Yummy only harder. bonnie Have we ruined yall's thread. Nancy and Chris..LOL Yall know fish oil is good for us Valvers so run down to the store and buy a can of sardines and put them on some good soda crackers.

 

[ccrawford]

Bonnie - my dear, how could you ruin anything. I'm glad we're getting a few more posts way down here in recipies. It's hard to get people to break their old cooking and eating habits (myself included) and the first step is to get people thinking about it, then experimenting with some of the recipies that are a little more healthy. I really am a sucker for southern cooking as I spent a number of years on the other side of the Mason Dixon. Hensylee's post almost made me start to drool.

 

[Nancy]

You know what, I'm going to make some salt-free cracklings. I've got a little smoke flavoring. It might taste a little like bacon, and maybe Joe could have a BLT.

Pork tomorrow night for supper. I'll cut off the fat and make some.

I made them once with the skin from the Christmas goose. It was pretty good.