manuela [Visitor]

polenta is not a typical dish of bologna.
manuela, Bologna, Italy

mishy [Visitor]

hi there my little girl is 13 and is mad about your cooking she has been woching you for a long time now and she would love to be a cook she keeps going on about her school dinners she is in belfairs school in ligh on sea essex but the food isnt nice thay have a lot of fatty food and she is trying to lose wait as all her frends call her ob but she said the
food even smells bad thank you so much for taking the time to read this it will mean a hole lot to her

HeHeMwah [Visitor]

Please can you put a childrens fun biscuit recipe on the site or even a kids cooking page !
Thanks Jamie

karen sexton [Visitor]

I'm trying to find a receipe for some fruit gums made from dried fruit, I'm sure it was a Jamie creation.

if it exists can you let me know

Thanks

ela g [Visitor]

manuela is right. polenta its a romanian traditional dish.

Marieta [Visitor]

Hi Jamie,

I'm looking for a easy carrotcake topping?
Thanks
Marieta

Marie Cregeen [Visitor]

I'm making something that needs Polenta and while l have looked this up on the internet l wonder what others think of it as an alternative to pasta or potatoes. I can't say the photos of plates containing Polenta appeal to me. Any advice?

Maja [Visitor]

Polenta/palenta is used in many cuisines, so I'm having a hard time to imagine that in Bologna there is not even one (typical) dish with polenta. Anyhow.... the recipe is wonderful. The cake is very tasty, I loooooove the figs and apples, and it's quite easy to make. Thanks a lot Jamie!

Pat Hill [Visitor]

Where do I buy Polenta (cornmeal), I have a recipe for American Pancakes, which I would like to make, but non of the Supermarkets or Health Shops sell Palenta or Cornmeal.

Pat

Jean [Visitor]

For KAREN SEXTON -

Jamie's recipe for Dried Fruitgums from his book "Happy Days with the Naked Chef"

A few of my friends feed their kids really nice dried apricots, plums, peaches, pineapple and apple as a treat instead of giving them boiled sugar sweets. Surprisingly, the kids absolutely love them. I actually think that a little paper bag of dried fruit is quite cool, but my friends fool their bambinies by cutting the fruit into shapes to look more like sweets.

When I cook these 'fruitgums' I normally do about 500gr or a kilo / 1 -2 lbs of dried fruit at a time. You can do simple types of fruit, or combos like mango and pineapple or peach and apricot. I simply whiz the dried fruit down to a very smooth puree in a food processor, then scoop it out on to some greased greaseproof paper. Using a palette knife, spread it out into a square, about 0.5cm / 1/4 inch thick, then slide it on to a baking tray. I normally heat the fruit puree in the electric oven at 70C/150F overnight, which is very convenient for me, or, if you're in a rush, heat it at 160C/300F/gas 2 for a couple of hours - the cooking time really depends on how moist the fruit was to start with.

When it's done, your layer of fruit should be soft but firm, a little bit like a winegum. Remove it from the oven to a chopping board, peel off the greaseproof paper and slice the fruit into small bite-sixed pieces. Make a variety of shapes - squares, triangles, circles, strips. These can be kept in an airtight jar until you need them. It's lovely to wrap them in little paper bags and put them in your kids' lunch-boxes. They'll love em.

Michelle [Visitor]

Actually, this dessert is from San Marino.

All the best,

Michelle
aka Baroness Tapuzina
baronesstapuzina.wordpress.com