A place to keep my notes! Spinach Pie.

I find I collect interesting titbits and recipes . Usually I just can't find something when I need it. There had to be a way to sort and make accessible this information. This was when I realised that tags on blogs make retrieval easy. Hence this blog.

Yesterday's dinner was a Spinach tart - I had no cream to make the usual quiche but had bought some ricotta and feta for a cheese and spinach pie. Well I skimmed some recipe books and found some proportions for the ricotta and feta - 250g and 200g respectively - with 2 eggs (I eventually used 3). I added about 2 dessertspoons of rinsed capers and a sprinkle of nutmeg and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. This was all with about 200g of defrosted spinach. I had also intended to include some pinenuts, and I think that would have been good. All this went into the processor before I poured it into a cooled precooked pastry shell (that worked well too!) and put into a 160 degree oven for about 40 minutes. Then I reheated it at 150 for as long as it took to cook the vegetables.

I was a bit worried it wouldn't taste all that wonderful but it really worked. More than could be said for Rosemary Stanton's Spinach and Ricotta Lasagne that I made a few days ago. It was much too dry - the spinach and ricotta filling was lovely but the lasagna just didn't get enough moisture to soften it. I won't keep that recipe.