Oki, I couldn't resist to quote the Beastie Boys, but this is NOT your grandma's kugel.
Another one from Veganomicon - The Spinach Kugel
. The first time I made this I had to puree the spinach for my husband the 'spinach-phobe*' - the resulting filling was a grainy light green mess mixed through with rombi pasta, and also was the first *food-porn* I had ever made that made me ashamed.
*It has not been an easy task to undo the "Vege-trauma" inflicted on my husband by his mother - Whose Vege-assault is to boil and overcook any vegetable into a sad, tasteless, flaccid parody of its formerly nutritional self.
It's ok, we all have *faults* (one of my own being, that I will stall and do anything except download my pictures from my camera for two and a half days.... *sigh*)
Good News! Compromise is possible. Since cooked whole spinach leaves come too close to "something his mother would have made" - I roll (like grape leaves) and cut all our spinach into short small ribbons before cooking them. For some reason, this makes a more palatable texture in his mouth, we avoid the "Vege-trauma" and I get the spinach I love. Win!
It's ok, we all have *faults* (one of my own being, that I will stall and do anything except download my pictures from my camera for two and a half days.... *sigh*)
Good News! Compromise is possible. Since cooked whole spinach leaves come too close to "something his mother would have made" - I roll (like grape leaves) and cut all our spinach into short small ribbons before cooking them. For some reason, this makes a more palatable texture in his mouth, we avoid the "Vege-trauma" and I get the spinach I love. Win!
5 comments:
Oh that looks good!!
I'm with Sweets, that looks so tasty!
good lookin'! how come I haven't made this yet? thanks for adding me... I love you blog's design!
This looks fantastic as does your quiche.
No sleep till...spinach kugel!
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