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| prep time: 00:07 cook time: 00:25 serves: 5 cost: $3.25 vegetarian |
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Now you can be as strong as Popeye and get to eat heavy cream with your vegetables. |
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| 20 oz fresh or frozen spinach | If the spinach is fresh, pick off the larger stems and wash out the sand and dirt. In a pot sufficiently huge to hold all that spinach, bring 2 c water to a rapid boil. Add spinach. Simmer, covered, for about 20 minutes. Drain; blend or chop. That was the long part. Indeed, if you're using frozen spinach this is really quick. Just thaw it by setting the box in hot water for a few minutes.
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about 2-4 T chopped onion (optional) 1 T flour 1/2 c pine nuts 1/2 c cream 1 t sugar salt black pepper Heat oil over medium heat in skillet, add onion. Cook for 1 minute or until golden. Stir in flour. Add pine nuts. Slowly stir in cream and add sugar. Add spinach; stir and cook for 3 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. |
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| "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
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Noam Chomsky | |