cooked spinach preparation?

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

This probably sounds like a dumb question, but how do I make cooked (boiled) chopped spinach from fresh spinach?  Just wash, hand-chop and boil?  (I don't have a food-processer). 

 

I've come to live on frozen spinach (boiled, of course) as a basis for most of my meals.  Now, suddenly my local grocery store's frozen spinach has been making me a little gassy and constipated (or so I was beginning to suspect), and then today I found several frozen pinto beans in the frozen spinach.  Obviously they're being mixed together in the packing house.  I'm pretty sure pinto beans are not legal?  I've already had the experience of getting sick from our other local grocery store's frozen spinach -- that time we traced it to corn starch used in the packing process.  So I may have to go all the way and figure out how to make my own!

 

Ann

[Guest guest]

i LOVE the organic baby spiach fresh in bags and I just add a lil olive oil to

the pan cover and simmer it shrinks down ALOT

eileen

23 months scd

>

> Hi all,

>

> This probably sounds like a dumb question, but how do I make cooked (boiled)

> chopped spinach from fresh spinach? Just wash, hand-chop and boil? (I

> don't have a food-processer).

>

> I've come to live on frozen spinach (boiled, of course) as a basis for most

> of my meals. Now, suddenly my local grocery store's frozen spinach has been

> making me a little gassy and constipated (or so I was beginning to suspect),

> and then today I found several frozen pinto beans in the frozen spinach.

> Obviously they're being mixed together in the packing house. I'm pretty

> sure pinto beans are not legal? I've already had the experience of getting

> sick from our other local grocery store's frozen spinach -- that time we

> traced it to corn starch used in the packing process. So I may have to go

> all the way and figure out how to make my own!

>

> Ann

>

[Guest guest]

At 07:50 PM 12/10/2009, you wrote:

This probably sounds like a dumb

question, but how do I make cooked (boiled) chopped spinach from fresh

spinach? Just wash, hand-chop and boil? (I don't have a

food-processer).

Not dumb at all... and you would hardly be the first SCDer to have

problems with " processing aids " in foods.

I would trim out the thickest veins (unless you're using baby leaf

spinach.), stack the pieces, and then slice diagonally across a stack of

leaves.

If using the baby spinach, I'd remove the stems, stack the leaves 15-20

in a stack, and slice diagnonally across the leaves multiple times.

Then cook as usual.

Food processor? We SCDers don't need no stinkin' food processor!

(I didn't have one until this year, when someone gifted me with one for

my birthday. There are some things it's a time saver for... but there are

other things, in fact a lot of things, for which I'd rather wash a single

knife than the whole processor. <g> I don't have a dishwasher,

either!)

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Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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