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Like AliceBlue, I'm convinced. I love sliced polenta pan-fried, but never in a million years would I have thought you could do the same with CofW. Must admit, I bought it for a baby and have always considered it to be blander than bland baby cereal.

Of course, potatoes are bland, too. It's all about how you cook and what ingredients you add. Good lesson!

LOL holy crp this has 122 comments hahaha

No Kolachki anyone??? This year, running short on time...Lekvar, apricot and cherry Kolachki, russian tea cakes, hand dipped choc pretzels, spritz cookies (green trees w dragee "stars"), cranberry mini bread loaves. All this with the oven breaking the Tuesday before Christmas week... Eeeek!

Blech. No way.

HOLY F&@#$*! YES WAAAAAAY!.... but I like it with raisins and a little milk. And BTW, to all you grit eaters.... DON'T BE HATIN! IT IS JUST LIKE GRITS! Speaking from someone who has had a trillion bowls of each....

I like to make sugar cookies with sprinkles in festive colors and I also like to make chocolate peanut butter balls.I do alot of baking and stuff as well.Alot of times in my family I bake gifts for Christmas and buy decorative tins and I wrap bows around them.Julie Lowe

Way, way, way! My mom used to make it for us with maple syrup and cinnamon. I still love to eat it just like that. Maple syrup and cinnamon sugar is excellent too!!

Absolutely loved Cream of Wheat as a child, but now I'm all up for using it like the Indians use semolina (which is what galeogirl is describing.

When I was homeschooling my kids, we were studying the Aztec and Mayan cultures for a little while, and came across references to atole, the national food/drink. Found some recipes and substituted Cream of Wheat for cornmeal (money was tight). It turned out to be a sort of chocolate-hot-cereal just thin enough to drink. We liked it so much it was part of our regular breakfast rota for a long time.

I'm trying to take back Christmas – a long, dull story – and this might be another arrow in my quiver. Thanks for jogging my memory :-)

Cream of Wheat is not only delicious as a breakfast dish (cooked with milk, served with brown sugar), but it's also a crucial ingredient in Rote Gruetze, a fabulous German dish made with raspberries and served with heavy cream, and a "white polenta" from the Piemonte that's in essence Cream of Wheat with Parmesan topped with a sauce of leeks and cream. Recipes I haven't yet gotten around to trying are a 1940s wartime-rationing preparation called "Cheese Squares" (cheesy Cream of Wheat squares served with a cream sauce) and a bunch of German and Italian dishes that feature a ring of molded flavored farina (CoW) filled with various meat or vegetable sauces. There's a whole world of Cream of Wheat goodness out there for us to explore!

I love Molasses cookies!

My wife make thumbprint cookies with jam in the middle.

@rice..coconut ice. When I read that it triggered a long lost memory!! I used to make that in England as a kid!!! Thanks for the memory!!

WAY! The more lumps, the better!