Popeye the Liar

kyleekay10

Popeye lied to me.



Tried canned spinach for the first time yesterday... It was NOT good.

I like baby spinach salad mixes, but I really want to eat cooked spinach every now and again. I'm new to cooking, and need to know what type of spinach to buy to cook it, and HOW to cook it. Help please.

Lizzy622

It doesn't ever have as much iron as he tried to tell us. Cacao powder has way more.

skyekeeper

Depending on what you're cooking, I would use the fresh spinach (like for sauteeing with other foods) or use frozen spinach to add into more complex meals (like casseroles, etc.). Hope this helps. Don't care for the canned spinach at all myself!

kyleekay10

Is Fresh Spinach the stuff you find in the salad sections? If so, how do you cook that/when do you know it's done?

skyekeeper

You would find it in the produce section. You can buy it bagged or loose. You can saute it in a skillet with olive oil or butter (whichever you prefer) with other veggies and season as you please. It doesn't take long to cook and it will shrivel up. As far as when it is done, depends on the consistency you prefer. Hope this helps.

kyleekay10

It does help, thank you much!

Chief_Rocka

Did he even lift?

KANGOOJUMPS

works for me, love, love spinach

Cliffslosinit

It got him Olive Oyl

cwolfman13

Just use fresh spinach and wilt it in some olive oil in a saute pan...it takes like about a minute and is just about the easiest thing in the world. I like to dash a little red wine vinegar on it to finish.

JenSD6

I buy the frozen spinach nuggets, give a couple a quick nuke to defrost, and drop them into a whole lot of different dishes. It's an easy way to add an extra vegetable serving to a dish. I toss them into soups, sauces, scrambled eggs, all sorts of stuff.

lilRicki

I just throw it into what ever I'm cooking...last night I fried a potato, threw some onions, spaghetti squash, 2 eggs and mushrooms in, cooked it all up, when it was done i put 2 cups of spinach on top and put a lid on it, once the steam shrunk the spinach it was done.

Edit: Fresh spinach, nothing canned :sick:

Soapstone

Try this: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/basic_green_soup.html

It looks wierd, but it's freaking amazing. I just posted it on another thread.

Seriously, I made it at least a dozen times last winter, and am waiting for cool fall weather to make it again. Slow-cooking the onions to a perfect, buttery caramelization is the key, adn what gives it the amazing flavor it ends up with. You definitely need fresh spinach for it, though!