Creamy Beans and Spinach #Recipe Peg Cochran/Margaret Loudon

 

One night I was looking for a recipe for a side dish.  I had a can of cannellini beans and I also had some spinach I wanted to use up. Some online surfing brought me to this recipe from Family Style Food.  It was quick, easy and tasty and there was the added bonus that I didn't have to go to the grocery store. I didn't make very many changes other than cutting the recipe in half since it was just for the two of us.  I did use "jarlic" or chopped garlic from a jar.  And rather than cut a quarter cup of the liquids in half, I used the full quarter cup.  It turned out just fine.  Have you ever gone searching for a recipe to use up leftovers in the fridge or whatever you have on hand?

2 TBL Olive oil

1 sliced shallot or half a small onion

2 15-ounce cans cannellini beans

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

1 TBL fresh herbs of choice or 1 tsp. dried

Salt to taste

½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes or to taste

¼ cup chicken broth or more if needed

¼ cup heavy cream

3 cups torn leafy greens like kale or spinach

1/3 cup grated Parmesan

 

Heat oil in a skillet and add onions or shallot.  Saute until soft.

Add the beans, garlic, herbs, pepper flakes and salt to taste.  Stir and cook until garlic becomes fragrant.

 

Add broth and cream, stir, and cook for 5 minutes.

 

Stir in greens until they begin to wilt.

 

Remove from heat and sprinkle Parmesan on top.

 

 A Berry Suspicious Death is now out!

 

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Weddings are murder in the new Cranberry Cove Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Peg Cochran!

The cranberry bogs at Sassamanash Farms have never looked more festive than when Monica’s half-brother celebrates his wedding there. It’s a genuinely joyous occasion, and even greeting a strange assortment of guests and witnessing a heated argument can’t spoil Monica’s mood. But that all changes when one of the guests is found murdered at the reception—and then one of Monica’s employees is accused of doing the deed to get his hands on the dead woman’s money.

It doesn’t take long for Monica to discover that the victim had amassed her fortune by marrying a very wealthy—and very ill—older man. What’s more, the old man’s daughters despised the scheming, gold-digging woman, and thought the inheritance money should have been theirs. That seems like motive enough for murder, but Monica suspects there’s more to this case than simple greed. With her employee in hot water and time running out, Monica will have to act fast to catch the killer, before a case that started with a family wedding ends with her own funeral . ..

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Peg Cochran is the author of the Open Book Series (writing as Margaret Loudon), the Cranberry Cove Series, the Murder, She Repored series, the Farmer's Daughter Series, the Lucille series and the Sweet Nothings Lingerie Series (writing as Meg London.)