"Polenta with sausage." Polenta cooked, chilled and sliced and layered with sausage.

"Polenta with songbirds." Polenta made with Fontina, Toma, melted butter and Parmesan cheese and served with spit-roasted song birds such as thrushes and larks.

Polenta cooked, chilled and sliced, warmed and mixed with and cheese. cream sauce and grated Parmesan cheese.

Polenta cooked, chilled and sliced and then fried.

Polenta fried with herbs and mushrooms.

Polenta made with buckwheat rather than the traditional coarse cornmeal, cooled, sliced and baked with anchovies and garlic.

"Fat polenta." Polenta mixed with butter and a good melting cheese like Fontina.

"Fat polenta."Polenta mixed with butter and a good melting cheese like Fontina as it cooks.

"Chained polenta." A dish from Liguria of polenta cooked with haricot beans (US: navy beans) and kale or cabbage.

A type of polenta from Lombardy made with milk.