Obama Healthy Delicious Creamed Spinach
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 2 bunches spinach, washed well and spun dry
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 shallots, chopped fine
- 2 garlic cloves, minced fine
directions
- Cook spinach in water until limp [or better, steam in Oster Digital Food Steamer, cost $40 on amazon.com so you can "set it and forget it".
- Blend/puree cooked spinach.
- Gently fry shallots and garlic in olive oil and mix well with pureed spinach.
- Note, a slight touch of freshly grated nutmeg, a pinch of good quality curry or any favorite spice adds a lot to this dish -
- part of eating healthy, delicious and cheap!
- see recent NY Times piece on 12 foods costing less than $1 - oatmeal, garbanzo beans, tuna, kale, apples and bananas,etc -.
- it's time we gluttonous Americans stopped eating more than our fair share on a planet where billions are starving. It's conscionable -.
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Reviews
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I was looking for a healthy version of creamed spinach. This is not it. Even if you're not going to use cream, it has to, at the very least, LOOK like creamed spinach. This is just pureed spinach. And, as a side note, no one here needs to hear a lecture while cooking dinner. Carrie should put her thoughts on the American diet into her description rather than including it as a step in the directions, since they're not a component of the recipe.
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