{"id":339378,"date":"2010-02-19T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2010-02-19T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:00:28","slug":"polenta-lasagna-a-recipe-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339378","title":{"rendered":"Polenta Lasagna: A recipe in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2534\" title=\"photo 3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/81-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>My family can be a tough crowd.<\/p>\n<p>I prepared this polenta lasagna, pictured at left, for dinner on a recent night. It filled the kitchen with that appealing Italian restaurant smell. When it came out of the oven, none of us could resist its burbly, cheesy, tomatoey, come-hither appeal as it rested on the counter. We gathered around in anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed my serving quite a lot. I thought the whole package came together &#8212; the gooey pockets of mozzarella, the buttery flavor of fresh spinach tucked inside, the bright marinara sauce, the warming familiarity of the flavors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s wrong with it,&#8221; said my wife. &#8220;Maybe the tomato sauce is off. The polenta itself is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spinach is gross,&#8221; piped in my 12-year-old. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t cook it right, did you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really like it,&#8221; said my 14-year-old, taking a second bite and then cocking her head. &#8220;But it could use more cheese. Or maybe a different cheese. Would cheddar be good?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recipe came out of my head rather than &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family can be a tough crowd. I prepared this polenta lasagna, pictured at left, for dinner on a recent night. It filled the kitchen with that appealing Italian restaurant smell. When it came out of the oven, none of us could resist its burbly, cheesy, tomatoey, come-hither appeal as it rested on the counter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}