The first time I made this spirited, stand-around-the-kitchen appetizer we had friends visiting from San Francisco. The ...

Unlike appetizers that require dipping ... Pile the mixture onto crispy, fluffy cakes of fried polenta and you have the perfect hors d'oeuvre, which is altogether earthy, sweet, and tangy.

The first time I made this spirited, stand-around-the-kitchen appetizer we had friends visiting ... There were eight of us in total. The menu: fried polenta, vegetable lasagne from my cookbook ...