Spinach, spinach and more spinach

[louisacooks]

The garden is producing a glut of spinach right now and after making spinach soup, cheese and spinach empanadas and using it as a salad leaf and pizza topping I am running out of ideas- any suggestions?

 

[Chef00]

LOL lord you are gonna be sick of spinach before it's all over.

I like spinach in this in place of the Kale
http://www.copymethat.com/r/QBb835y/zuppa-toscana-copy-cat-olive-garden/

 

[Chef00]

http://www.copymethat.com/r/kq02YKI/orzo-with-caramelized-mushrooms-and-wilt/

http://www.copymethat.com/r/64JrdIp/spinach-cheese-and-prosciutto-stuffed-ch/

Making this for the second time today. YUM
http://www.copymethat.com/r/FfeOoOp/pork-tenderloin-stuffed-with-spinach-and/

http://www.copymethat.com/r/0WN9Peb/marys-stuffed-meatloaf/

 

[Morning Glory]

I know you are asking for recipes... but you could cook it in boiling water, drain and squeeze dry, chop it up and store in flat pack freezer bags. Just put spinach in the bag (mine are zip-lock) and flatten it out. This way they can be stored flat on the bottom of the freezer and don't take up valuable space.

 

[Chef00]

Morning glory you just reminded me. OMG you can dry it. lay the leaves on parchment and put into a warm oven say 200 or less, if you can go lower in temp do it. they just need to DRY OUT then you can crush and use a garnish on soups etc. like a seasoning.

 

[louisacooks]

Oooh not thought of drying it. The freezer is usually packed with the veg I don't like to can (peas carrots peppers etc etc) so other methods would be best.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Wilted, not cooked, served with a touch of oil and a good dash of soya sauce such as tamari. Beautiful.

 

[epicuric]

The garden is producing a glut of spinach right now and after making spinach soup, cheese and spinach empanadas and using it as a salad leaf and pizza topping I am running out of ideas- any suggestions?

I found a great book yesterday called "Fresh All The Year" by Gail Duff, 1976 Macmillan. It's devoted to making the most out of seasonal garden produce. The chapter on May features no less than ten recipes for spinach:
Creamed spinach
Spinach au gratin
Spinach soup
Spinach beurre noire
Spinach omlette
Spinach and eggs nicoise
Spinach and ham quiche
Spinach and cod salad
Raw spinach salad
Spinach pate

I don't have time to put them all up here but I'm sure a search engine will oblige. The spinach pate sounds really good, I will try it over the weekend and if it works I will put up the recipe.

 

[winterybella]

The garden is producing a glut of spinach right now and after making spinach soup, cheese and spinach empanadas and using it as a salad leaf and pizza topping I am running out of ideas- any suggestions?

Do some sort of stir fry using pasta and while you are at it you can enter said recipe in the Challenge which you can read all about here : https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/the-cookingbites-recipe-challenge.6160.
Of course that's just to get you interested in the Challenge. I refuse to Google this so as not to inundate you with recipes but speaking from experience I use spinach in several made up variations using rice, and chicken. There is no limit to the things you can play around with. Sorry for not being more specific. I am just saying create, create, create and share, share, share.