*After spending hours making a family favorite, decide to be selfish and cook something only you would dare to eat. Something that has spinach in it, which Josh hates. And cheese, even though Jess is allergic.
*Chop the onions. Cry. Resolve for the billionth time to look up how to avoid crying over chopped onions.
*Wash and drain the spinach until it is as dry as you can get it. By which I mean, wash the spinach, put it in a tupperware container, drive it out to the Mojave Desert, and leave it sitting there for about six months.
Alternatively, wrap the wet spinach in a towel and beat it with a baseball bat until you scare all the water out.
Seriously. You won't think I'm being funny if you've ever tried to dry this shit by hand.
*Put the onions in a pan with just a little bit of oil, garlic, and a variety of spices and herbs. When the onions are soft, add the spinach and cook. Wax poetic about how it smells so much like the spanakopita your mother used to make, and how it was your favorite food as a kid even though you only ever got it twice a year if you were lucky, and then you had to walk uphill both ways in the snow backward to get any, and maybe it's time for another therapist appointment.
*Take out your aggression on a few eggs. Add cheese, and spinach. Bake in a loaf pan because your 8x8 baking pan is dirty.
*Make a romantic sigh of relief. Look around. Realize that the kitchen is a wasteland.
*Go visit your husband in the next room instead of cleaning up.
*Thirty odd minutes later, pull the pan from the oven and serve.
*Hate it. Eat it with great hostility for breakfast for the next 5 days.
*Rinse, lather, repeat at least six times before finally, finally getting down the right combination and making something delicious. That only you will eat.
Spanako2 10 oz packages of frozen spinach, defrosted and well drained
Roughly 2 Tbsp of olive oil
1 cup chopped white onions
3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
1 Tbsp dill
1/2 tsp nutmeg
pepper and salt, to taste
4 eggs, beaten
8 oz feta, crumbled
just over 1/2 cup shredded parmesan
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
*Mix eggs and cheeses in a large bowl and set aside.
*Put oil, onions, garlic, basil, dill, nutmeg, pepper and salt in a skillet. Heat on medium, stirring until the onions are soft -- about a minute or two.
*Add the spinach to the skillet and stir until warm. Add a little oil if it dries out too much.
*Combine the spinach mixture with the eggs and cheese.
*Bake in a lightly greased dish for about 30-40 minutes. It's best to wait ten minutes before serving.
Tip: If you do not own a baseball bat or you don't live close enough to the Mojave to properly dry your spinach, try one of these instead:
It's a potato ricer. It cost me about $8, and while I never ever eat potatoes unless I can help it, I'd say this was well worth the cost.
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