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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Sunday, June 17, 2007 More food Knitters all seem to be great foodies too, so I thought I'd get into the act. I hate the pressure of having to come up with something interesting every single day. But in spite of that, I do like to cook, and I have to say that one of Clarence's few really good points is that he'll eat whatever I put in front of him without complaint. So he gets some classic good home-cooked meals, and then sometimes he gets a sandwich and a salad. It's a good thing he doesn't complain, because there are times when even a sandwich and a salad are almost beyond me. But today I felt like cooking. After I posted the Eggplant Parmigiana recipe, my daughter sent me one of her favorites, and tonight I made a version of it. The original is made with ground beef and some generic supermarket ingredients, but Kay created a new version with chicken. I actually made the ground beef version, but substituted all the other things she recommended in place of what the original recipe called for.Kay's Spinach Cheese Bake1/2 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast, chopped into 1/2" cubes (or about the same amount of ground beef)1/2 medium onion, chopped1 package (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained1 can (4 oz) mushroom stems and pieces, drained1 tablespoon garlic granules or 3-4 cloves fresh garlic 2-3 tablespoons dried basil1/4 cup butter1/4 cup all purpose flourCouple spins of fresh ground sea salt2 cups whole milk1 cup (4 oz) freshly shredded mozzarella cheeseIn an ovenproof skillet, cook chicken and onion until no longer pink; drain. Add the spinach, mushrooms, garlic and basil and a couple of spins of fresh ground sea salt. Cover and cook on very low heat until sauce is done. While chicken and onion are first cooking, set butter over very low heat in a small saucepan. Once chicken is covered, stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Gradually add milk and slowly bring to boil, simmer two minutes, stirring continuously, or until thickened. Pour over meat mixture; mix well. Shred cheese over mixture. Bake uncovered at 320 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until cheese turns golden (like pizza). Serve over pasta. Yield: 4-6 servings.Kay says to make sure you squeeze the excess moisture out of the spinach before adding it to the meat mixture. Since it came out a bit soupy even with doing that, I'm glad she mentioned it. She also says it's a great pasta sauce, so I cooked some rotini to serve it on, and it is indeed very good over pasta.Clarence gobbled it up and asked for seconds. posted by Liz @ 8:28 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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Knitters all seem to be great foodies too, so I thought I'd get into the act. I hate the pressure of having to come up with something interesting every single day. But in spite of that, I do like to cook, and I have to say that one of Clarence's few really good points is that he'll eat whatever I put in front of him without complaint. So he gets some classic good home-cooked meals, and then sometimes he gets a sandwich and a salad. It's a good thing he doesn't complain, because there are times when even a sandwich and a salad are almost beyond me. But today I felt like cooking. After I posted the Eggplant Parmigiana recipe, my daughter sent me one of her favorites, and tonight I made a version of it. The original is made with ground beef and some generic supermarket ingredients, but Kay created a new version with chicken. I actually made the ground beef version, but substituted all the other things she recommended in place of what the original recipe called for.Kay's Spinach Cheese Bake1/2 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast, chopped into 1/2" cubes (or about the same amount of ground beef)1/2 medium onion, chopped1 package (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained1 can (4 oz) mushroom stems and pieces, drained1 tablespoon garlic granules or 3-4 cloves fresh garlic 2-3 tablespoons dried basil1/4 cup butter1/4 cup all purpose flourCouple spins of fresh ground sea salt2 cups whole milk1 cup (4 oz) freshly shredded mozzarella cheeseIn an ovenproof skillet, cook chicken and onion until no longer pink; drain. Add the spinach, mushrooms, garlic and basil and a couple of spins of fresh ground sea salt. Cover and cook on very low heat until sauce is done. While chicken and onion are first cooking, set butter over very low heat in a small saucepan. Once chicken is covered, stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Gradually add milk and slowly bring to boil, simmer two minutes, stirring continuously, or until thickened. Pour over meat mixture; mix well. Shred cheese over mixture. Bake uncovered at 320 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until cheese turns golden (like pizza). Serve over pasta. Yield: 4-6 servings.Kay says to make sure you squeeze the excess moisture out of the spinach before adding it to the meat mixture. Since it came out a bit soupy even with doing that, I'm glad she mentioned it. She also says it's a great pasta sauce, so I cooked some rotini to serve it on, and it is indeed very good over pasta.Clarence gobbled it up and asked for seconds.
Kay's Spinach Cheese Bake1/2 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast, chopped into 1/2" cubes (or about the same amount of ground beef)1/2 medium onion, chopped1 package (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained1 can (4 oz) mushroom stems and pieces, drained1 tablespoon garlic granules or 3-4 cloves fresh garlic 2-3 tablespoons dried basil1/4 cup butter1/4 cup all purpose flourCouple spins of fresh ground sea salt2 cups whole milk1 cup (4 oz) freshly shredded mozzarella cheeseIn an ovenproof skillet, cook chicken and onion until no longer pink; drain. Add the spinach, mushrooms, garlic and basil and a couple of spins of fresh ground sea salt. Cover and cook on very low heat until sauce is done. While chicken and onion are first cooking, set butter over very low heat in a small saucepan. Once chicken is covered, stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Gradually add milk and slowly bring to boil, simmer two minutes, stirring continuously, or until thickened. Pour over meat mixture; mix well. Shred cheese over mixture. Bake uncovered at 320 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until cheese turns golden (like pizza). Serve over pasta. Yield: 4-6 servings.
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