The Spinach!!!!!!!!!!!! And Memories Of Spinach!!!!!!!! Thread

[Detroit City]

Yes, saag bhaji is a Must Have at any Indian meal I'm eating!

ahh yes...how delicious. I prefer saag paneer myself. Few people know how to make spinach correctly for it cannot be served up bland.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I love saag aloo - spinach and potatoes. Hmmm, I have spare potatoes I need to use up ... nom nom nom ( <---- new catchphrase).

ATOMIC SUPLEX: there really is no faff involved with fresh spinach at all. It doesn't even need cooking. Buy the stuff ready washed and you don't even have to do that. You don't have to worry about draining, getting it un-soggy, it clogging your colander, or anything like that. If you're cooking a curry or whatever you just bung in handfuls of fresh leaves and leave them to wilt in the sauce. I find the tinned stuff far more cumbersome.

And the frozen stuff is just plain weird.

Fresh spinach ftw

 

[ymu]

^^ Yep. (Frankly Stephen, I'm shocked at your promotion of the frozen variety)

I mostly use it fresh as a salad leaf - fantastic for a hot salad as the leaves take the heat well and just wilt a little.

Boil some new/small potatoes. Fry gently in a small amount of oil. Add fresh finely chopped ginger and chilli. Finish with shed loads of honey. Pour over fresh spinach leaves. Great served with fish - or add chicken as well as potatoes to the honey dish. For veggie version, add green beans, peppers, whole tomatoes etc etc.

Yum.

 

[pembrokestephen]

^^ Yep. (Frankly Stephen, I'm shocked at your promotion of the frozen variety)

I knew no better then. Nowadays, I use fresh by preference, but it doesn't keep well, and I do always have a couple of bags of those frozen little nuggets. The old Findus stuff was rank by comparison: chopped to mush, but the frozen stuff is a more-than-adequate backup for cooking with.

I mostly use it fresh as a salad leaf - fantastic for a hot salad as the leaves take the heat well and just wilt a little.

Yes, definitely. Sometimes if I make pasta, you can't actually SEE the pasta for the wilted spinach and rocket leaves. Damn, but I can be so Islington sometimes, especially when I shave Gran Padano onto it. Though getting the bits out of the razor afterwards is tricky...

Boil some new/small potatoes. Fry gently in a small amount of oil. Add fresh finely chopped ginger and chilli. Finish with shed loads of honey. Pour over fresh spinach leaves. Great served with fish - or add chicken as well as potatoes to the honey dish. For veggie version, add green beans, peppers, whole tomatoes etc etc.

Yum.

Ditto.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I didb't have any lunch made for today so I emptyed a can of spinich into my lunchbox and added some tofu.

Yum.

 

[Detroit City]

I love saag aloo - spinach and potatoes. Hmmm, I have spare potatoes I need to use up ... nom nom nom ( <---- new catchphrase).

mmm yes....especially with those small little potatoes. Some people add cream to saag also to make it "makhni". Yum

 

[Maggot]

I can't believe that no-one has mentioned the divine combination which is spinach and ricotta.

I knew no better then. Nowadays, I use fresh by preference, but it doesn't keep well, and I do always have a couple of bags of those frozen little nuggets. The old Findus stuff was rank by comparison: chopped to mush, but the frozen stuff is a more-than-adequate backup for cooking with.

Too right, I'll use fresh stuff if I have it, but have a bag of frozen which can be added to stews, curries, sauces etc.

 

[Poot]

Only this evening I tried to feed it to my toddler.

He looked terrified!