Spinach?

[divamumplus]

What is the bestway to eat spinach. Im pg and cant get myself eating this. Any ideas? Bought big bag last week ate once steamed with pork chop dinner. and rest went in the bin. Now another bag full of waiting to go off date in the fridge.
Cheers,

Stir-fry it gently with some garlic, salt and pepper and nutmeg. Add a little cream too if you like. Have it in a salad instead of lettuce. Throw a couple of handfuls into a curry five minutes before serving.

Nice on sandwiches too instead of lettuce.

ooh was just talking about spinach in the teashop! make soup - recipe in the shop...

Add it to curries or make a fish or chicken florentine with cheese sauce.

For florentine, poach fish for few minutes in milk or grill chicken breast of chicken (brush with oil first) for a few minutes. Cut into strips.

Make cheese sauce and add dash of grainy mustard. Steam spinach until wilted. Put spinach in bottom of ovenproof dish, place fish or chicken on top, add cheese sauce, bake for about 40 minutes at 180C.

salads

I fry bacon bits/pieces chopped small and some spring onion in a frying pan. Whilst thats cooking bake a few large jacket potatoes. When the potato is cooked through, cut off the top and scoop out the inside. Mash the bacon, potato, onion and raw spinach (about a handful per potato, washed and torn up) all together with some cream and then put the mixture back into the jacket potato 'case' and sprinkle with cheese and paprika, then put under the grill for 10 mins until melted. the spinach will cook and you will hardly notice it in the potato.

the sauce that Jamie Oliver does in the sainsburys ad is nice....must say it's even nicer with adding some chopped springonion and bacon

Or add some spinach into Tomatoe soup

I make green cheese sauce with mine for dd.

Easy-make a cheese sauce,cook spinach,whizz it up into a puree then add to the cheese sauce.

Pasta with chicken, spinach, white wine and cream sauce... mmm, I'm starving!!

Why do you need to eat it anyway? Dried apricots have more iron in them and if you pay for the good plump ones (in foil packs not plastic) they're very moreish. And prunes are nice dipped in melted chocolate, left to cool and eaten like a box of chocs.
Think Broccoli has more folic acid too.

frozen spinach IS the way of the future - nuggets of purist green
If you don't like the taste, then just chuck one into anything you're cooking ... if you do, esp god in white/cheese sauces (with pasta/fish) or risottos - chicken/bacon and spinach esp yummy...

Bags of baby leaf spinach instead of lettuce - preferably with feta cheese, olives and toasted pine nuts! YUM

make a spanakopita

filo pastry improves everything imo

No, feta cheese improves everything LOL.

I have started making a pesto pasta thing with spinach and pine nuts.

Just cook pasta, then in another pan, warm through the pine nuts and wilt the spinach, tip the cooked past on top with a few dollops of pesto.

That said - you dont have to cook the spinach or pine nuts at all, just lob into the cooked pasta once drained.

It does need to be baby leaf spinach though.

Its blardy gorgeous it is.

try this website

And any minute now the new season's purple sprouting broccoli will be in the shops - a million miles away from the tasteless green stuff you usually get.

wilt it in some butter then mix in some grated cheese = have it on toast. Takles 5 mins and tasted heavenly!

Eat it raw as salad with toasted pinenuts sprinkled on it.

I like it wilted in butter with chicken liver & bacon - but being pregnant you can't have the liver!

soup. 2 cubed raw potatoes, one chopped onion, soften in butter. Add large quantities of chopped spinach, veg stock cube, lots of pepper and some salt and some nutmeg. Simmer 20 mins, blend, add lovely dollop of cream (or creme fraiche)
Et voila.