This is more or less what’s inside the traditional Greek spanikopita, minus the phyllo dough layers. It’s best made with fresh spinach that’s been plunged briefly into boiling water—but frozen spinach works perfectly well too, so that’s what the recipe calls for.
Also going to attempt making this in the near future because if I’m buying a ton of feta cheese for one recipe, I might as well make another recipe that uses it.
So I’m gathering the ingredients to try this recipe tomorrow night, because 1) I need to start cooking more instead of eating out, 2) I need to start eating healthier foods again, and 3) this sounds delicious.
Winter Squash Soup with Gruyere Croutons
Another Smitten Kitchen recipe (seriously, if you haven’t checked out Deb’s site yet, everything I’ve made so far has been delicious). So many squash soups add cinnamon, other pie spices, and a little sugar. This one goes with onions, garlic, sage, and thyme instead. ♥
Again, you can mess with the dairy. I’ve also found (thanks to Anna Thomas) that a small amount of Arborio rice can sometimes be subbed in to add creaminess, but I haven’t tried that with this recipe yet.
guh that looks delicious
I am going to pretend that yesterday’s absolutely awful drive-thru eating didn’t happen, because I am starting the day off right with a chef salad and I REFUSE to eat unhealthy crap at work tonight.
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I can’t jog on the treadmill like I usually do, so I might just walk for a bit and then concentrate on arms and thighs/calves today.
Portobella mushrooms with mozzarella cheese and grape tomatoes. :3
I don’t even want to weigh myself tomorrow. :\
1. I bought a bathroom scale for my dorm room today. Previously I’d only been able to weigh myself at my house once a week, if that, so I would tend to eat really badly up until the day or two before weigh-in and then hope for the best. I know it’s not ideal to weigh yourself every day, but at least this way I can do it every two or three days to make sure I’m still on track even if I don’t go home. What sucks though is that according to this scale I gained a pound since yesterday, even though I ate really well. I know that it’s just because the scales are calibrated differently, but it was still a :( moment this morning.
2. Going to buy ingredients to make these tonight at the grocery store. I’m going to try and set a goal to make one or two “new” recipes a week that are relatively inexpensive and/or easy to make. One problem I have is that I get really tired of boneless, skinless chicken breasts REALLY quickly, regardless of what I marinate them in. Hopefully by expanding the amount of low-carb foods that I make, I’ll be able to stick to the regimen longer.
