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SPINACH RECIPES These spinach recipes use mostly readily available and nutritious ingredients. The taste of fruits and vegetables are their most prominent flavors. Sugar and salt are usually added, but very few other spices and non garden grown ingredients are used. Most of the recipes do not use any animal products. Some can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, some take an hour. Almost all are for sinlge servings. A few typical recipes are given below. Under those few recipes is a PayPal emblem that you can use to purchase 50 more Spinach recipes for $2, if you choose to do so. The 50 recipes are in a text file that can be viewed in just about any word processing program including Notepad. That way it is easy to make changes to get the recipes to suit your taste or change a recipe if you get tired of it. You can add recipes, add notes - whatever. If you have a computer in your kitchen, save the file on that computer and fire up the computer when you want to make a meal using spinach and nutritious whole foods such as grains, nuts, seeds, beans, and other fruits and vegetables. |
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To go to a recipe, click on a title or scroll down. CONTENTS: Recipes For Garden Flavors - Spinach Spinach grain seed peanut -- All ingredients are blended into a batter then heated in a microwave oven to a pudding consistency. Definitely bitter/sweet with more sweetness than bitterness; moderate: starchiness, sunflower seed flavor; slightly spinach flavored and tangy; chewy at edge, soft pudding-like at center. 20090716d
Spinach grain -- Process fresh spinach into a slaw or finely chop, crush a quarter of a cup of cornflakes, add a teaspoon of canola oil to the slaw, mix. Spinach nut bean -- Process fresh spinach and California walnuts into a slaw/crumb, add 1 eighth cup canned kidney beans and mix. Spinach grain seed peanut 2 -- Blend spinach, sunflower seeds, 1 tablespoon whole grain flour, peanuts, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 eighth teaspoon salt, and 1 quarter cup water; heat to boiling in a microwave oven. Makes a hot drink that is mildly: spinach flavored, sweet, starchy, salty. 20091226a
Spinach grain seed peanut: 20090716d
1 ounce spinach
1 eighth cup (.75 ounces) blanched skinless peanuts
or 1 and 1 half tablespoon non roasted 50 percent oil peanut butter,
see title: non roasted peanut butter
or 2 tablespoons dried beans, boiled until soft and mild, drained
or 1 quarer cup canned beans
1 tablespoon (.3 ounce) whole wheat flour
or 1 tablespoon any other grain flour
2 tablespoons (.7 ounce) non roasted sunflower seeds
or 1 tablespoon (.5 ounce) nut or seed butter such as tahini
1 teaspoon (.2 ounce) honey plus 1 tablespoon (.3 ounce) sugar
or 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon sugar
2 pinches salt
1 eighth cup water
Cut the spinach into 1 half inch pieces.
Put into a 1 cup high speed blender all ingredients except flour. Run until smooth. Put the blender's contents into a mixing bowl. Add the grain flour and mix. Heat until thickened, 2 minutes 40 seconds in a 1000 watt microwave oven. -------------------------- Math: Add 5 seconds for oven to begin heating. Plus 12 seconds to heat container. To raise to boiling: 4.25 ounces times 20 seconds per ounce = 85 seconds. To remove 1 ounce water: 46 seconds per ounce times 1 ounce = 46 seconds. Plus to replace heat lost to air during heating: 12 seconds per minute times 46/60 minutes = 9 seconds plus 9/60 X 12 = 2 for a total of 11 seconds. -------------------------- Definitely bitter/sweet with more sweetness than bitterness, moderate: starchy, sunflower seed flavor; slightly spinach flavored and tangy; chewy at edge, soft pudding-like at center. back to CONTENTS Spinach grain:
1 cup (1 ounce) spinach leafs or 1/3 cup spinach slaw 1 teaspoon canola oil 1/4 cup cornflakes crushed to about 1/8 cup (cornflakes dominate flavor) or 1/8 cup cornflakes crushed to 1 tablespoon for more spinach flavorProcess the spinach leafs in a small processor. Combine all ingredients in a portion bowl and toss back to CONTENTS Spinach nut bean: 1 cup (1 to 2 ounces) spinach leaves 1/8 cup California walnuts 1 tablespoon dried kidney beans, boiled until soft and mild or 1/8 cup canned kidney beansProcess the spinach leafs in a small processor. Add the nuts and process until as fine as desired or nuts are stuck on processor bowl. Combine all ingredients in a portion bowl and toss. Good if you like spinach. back to CONTENTS Spinach grain seed peanut 2: 20091226a
1 half ounce fresh spinach
(about 1 quarter cup chopped every 1 quarter inch, loose)
or (1 tablespoon dried spinach shreds/slaw, very coarse)
or 1 half ounce fresh broccoli
(about 1 quarter cup chopped every 1 quarter inch,loose)
or 1 quarter ounce fresh arugula
(about 1 eighth cup chopped every 1 quarter inch,loose)
or 1 quarter ounce fresh parsley
(about 1 eighth cup chopped every 1 quarter inch, loose)
1 tablespoon (.4 ounce) skinless blanched (buff) peanuts
or 1 tablespoon dried beans, boiled until soft and mild, drained
or 2 tablespoons canned beans
1 tablespoon (.5 ounce) sugar plus 3 packets aspartame sweetner or to taste
1 tablespoon sunflower seed (.3 ounce) non roasted sunflower seeds
or 1 half tablespoon nut or seed butter such as tahini
or 1 teaspoon canola oil plus 2 teaspoons grain or grain flour
1 tablespoon grain flour
1 eighth teaspoon salt
1 quarter cup (2 ounces) water
total: 5.25 ounces, 2.45 ounces water
Cut the greens into 1 half inch pieces.
Put into a 1 cup or larger blender: 1 half ounce spinach, 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds, 1 tablespoon peanuts, 1 tablespoon sugar, 3 packets aspartame sweetner or to taste, 1 eighth teaspoon salt, and 1 quarter cup water. Run until smooth, 3 to 4 minutes. Add to the blender: 1 tablespoon grain flour, and 1 half cup water. Run to thoroughly mix and further pulverize and smooth, about 2 minutes. Put the slurry into a 3 cup or larger bowl. Add enoungh water to make about 8 ounces. Heat to boiling temperature in a microwave oven, 3 minutes in a 1000 watt microwave oven, 5 minutes in a 600 watt oven, watch for boil over last 30 seconds. ------------------------------------------------- Math: Plus 5 seconds for oven to begin heating. Plus 12 seconds to heat dishes. To heat to hot serving temp: 8 ounces X 20 seconds per ounce equals 160 seconds. ------------------------------------------------ Pour the liquid into a mug to serve. Heating to boiling is to reduce the strong/bittter flavor of spinach. Mildly: spinach flavored, sweet, starchy, salty. back to CONTENTS
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