Polenta, vegetables and eggs – a happy triangle

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Polenta, vegetables and eggs - a happy triangle
If you’d say that polenta, ”mămăligă”, as we call it around here, is our national food, you’ll make no mistake. I don’t speak for the rest of the country, but here, in Transylvania, people eat a lot of polenta. Instead of bread in many cases.
My mother is one of these people and many times when she invites us over for lunch or dinner, she asks us ”Would you want me to make some polenta too?” Well, the answer, my answer on that question is usually a ”No”, because I’m not crazy about polenta. Anyway, with this…let’s call it side dish, is the same as with the lettuce soup. You either like it, or not.

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But I guess I am a weird one, because sometimes I love it, and other times I hate it, but my attitude depends on the dish I’m eating polenta with. For instance, the favorite Transylvanian way to eat polenta is with cheese and sour cream, especially that my county is known as some kind of a  ”cheese country”. There is an abundance of shepherds, sheep and sheep’s milk, so the cheese is fat, especially that we are making (well…not me exactly) ”telemea” – a kind of cheese very similar to feta, caș – a sweet matured cheese, and many types of cheeses. Sweet, salty, smoky, matured or not.
No, our cheese is not fine or sophisticated like others’. Transylvanian cheese is as simple as possible, almost as mother nature let it. So the taste is pure and simple. Sometimes sharp if the cheese is matured enough. But always tasty.

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Cheese, sour cream and polenta are not the only pairs made in heaven, because the best way around here to pairing this corn creation is with fried pork sausages (there is a wide variety of sausages around here), white sauce stews, or eggs.
The ”marriage” between the humble and fascinating egg  and polenta was the one that inspired our lunch today. A combination between polenta, eggs, honey glazed oven roasted vegetables and some parmesan (feta would have been fantastic). Incredible tasty, simple to be made and healthy too.     Polenta, vegetables and eggs - a happy triangle Sibiu/HermannstadtSibiu/HermannstadtSibiu/HermannstadtPolenta, vegetables and eggs - a happy triangle Sibiu/HermannstadtPS. Because I was talking so much about it, I’ve decided to add pictures with Sibiu, my snowy city. There are just a few shots, so the pictures don’t reveal too much, but I guess they’ re better than nothing :).

 

 

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