What to do with three pounds of spinach?
Sep. 12th, 2024 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe local grocery sometimes gets super cheap organic baby spinach. I do not know how this happens, but it happens. Normally this brand is $3.88 at Sams Club (I don't Sams Club but that's the price for it there, I just checked online.) but when the local grocery has it, it's a buck a box for unexpired very nice organic baby spinach.
That's... very inexpensive. This go-round, I bought three boxes. (They don't expire until tomorrow but nothing is wilted and they will probably last through the weekend.)
Well, I'm gonna eat it, for reals. But also here are some things that you can do with super cheap organic baby spinach, should you happen upon some and need to eat it up yum.
1. Add a handful to the breakfast smoothie (berries and banana and yogurt right now), makes it a weird color but is practically invisible as to taste.
2. Fry some bacon, wilt an embarrassing amount of spinach in there, add butter and salt, consume.
3. Make hummus. Cook a fairly big hunk of spinach, blend with stick blender, add to about a third of the hummus (reserve rest of hummus for later). This makes a green dip that tastes like hummus but now also has spinach in it. Very edible.
4. Omelet with wilted spinach.
5. On sandwich like it's lettuce.
6. Salad like it's lettuce only it's not.
7. Add in to curries.
I'm through the first two pounds. One pound to go. (I like spinach just fine, by the way. The problem isn't eating spinach, it's the volume of spinach involved here. Three pounds of spinach is a lot for a household of one.)
That's... very inexpensive. This go-round, I bought three boxes. (They don't expire until tomorrow but nothing is wilted and they will probably last through the weekend.)
Well, I'm gonna eat it, for reals. But also here are some things that you can do with super cheap organic baby spinach, should you happen upon some and need to eat it up yum.
1. Add a handful to the breakfast smoothie (berries and banana and yogurt right now), makes it a weird color but is practically invisible as to taste.
2. Fry some bacon, wilt an embarrassing amount of spinach in there, add butter and salt, consume.
3. Make hummus. Cook a fairly big hunk of spinach, blend with stick blender, add to about a third of the hummus (reserve rest of hummus for later). This makes a green dip that tastes like hummus but now also has spinach in it. Very edible.
4. Omelet with wilted spinach.
5. On sandwich like it's lettuce.
6. Salad like it's lettuce only it's not.
7. Add in to curries.
I'm through the first two pounds. One pound to go. (I like spinach just fine, by the way. The problem isn't eating spinach, it's the volume of spinach involved here. Three pounds of spinach is a lot for a household of one.)
