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Where can I buy Medium Ground Cornmeal in Ottawa? (stone ground would be nice but not absolutely necessary). The stuff in the supermarkets look like its fine ground. I want to try making my own polenta at home!

I had good results with some I found at Bulk Barn. If you have access to Cooks Illustrated, try out their recipe for polenta with rapini, sun-dried tomato, and pine nuts (or just play with those ingredients by frying them up with some garlic and hot pepper flakes and a bit of broth.) Yum!

mountain path has stone ground.

al jazeerah has different coarses i think.

check herb and spice and maybe market organics.

you can make polenta with fine ground, i've done it before.

Go to any health food store that is of a decent size and get Bob's Red Mill stuff. They've got it in different grinds and probably stone ground.

one of the cheapest places to get a coarser cornmeal is at local Middle-Eastern stores like Sultan (Bank at Hunt Club) or Mid-East Food Center (St Laurent at Belfast), where I've bought Yellow Cornmeal #120 (maybe a bit bigger than most stone ground) to a very coarse corn grits, more like cracked corn, great for giving texture to yer grits but likely way large for a refined polenta. They do have smaller sizes there as well, like #240.

www.bobsredmill.com

Youncan get this at Farm Boy.

I use the Bob's Red Mill medium for cornbread--excellent taste and texture with some nice crunch to it. They also make an excellent coarse-ground one, which is my go-to polenta.

Thanks this is great, you guys! I will check out Farmboy and the Mid-East Food Center.