Tag: Spinach

  • Spinach and Ricotta Self-Crusting Mini-Quiches

    Spinach and Ricotta Self-Crusting Mini-Quiches

          Even spinach haters like these Spinach is one of those poor maligned vegetables that everyone loves to hate, but happily eats when it’s mixed in with other ingredients, such as eggs or cheese. Even my kids, who vow and declare that they detest spinach, gobble it up when it’s “hidden”. I put…

  • Sausage, Spinach and Beer Risotto

    Sausage, Spinach and Beer Risotto

        Risotto with a difference! This risotto with sausages and spinach has an extra special guest hitching along for the ride.  Instead of using the usual wine to make the risotto, you actually use beer.  It gives the risotto an extra depth of taste, especially if you pair it with good pork sausages. I…

  • Broccoli and Spinach Flan

    Broccoli and Spinach Flan

        Green makes you grow muscles This is a broccoli dish that even all those broccoli-haters out there love (well at least are prepared to eat under coercion).  I can attest to this through vigorous scientific “blind” taste tests….i.e.. not telling my broccoli-disparaging husband and kids what was in the flan. I only told…

  • Spinach Frittata

    Spinach Frittata

        What to give to people who hate spinach so that they will eat spinach So, what can you do to get people (especially the young kind!) to eat spinach.  Well, I’ll let you in on a secret: this frittata is it, and not only will they eat spinach when it’s hidden in an…