Easy Spinach Bake
From Elizabeth S. Craig, aka Riley Adams
Hi everyone! I’m so glad to be back at Mystery Lovers’
Kitchen.
This is my favorite blog to
visit…especially around the holidays! I
lurked over here on Halloween week and am now excited that Thanksgiving and
Christmas treats are on the way.
If you’re like my family, we usually have
one person as the hostess for the holiday, and then the rest of us bring sides
or desserts or appetizers to complement the meal.
I’ll admit that I’m usually the broccoli,
or green bean, or sweet potato casserole volunteer. In fact, we don’t traditionally eat spinach
at our holiday gatherings.
But this is about to change, because I’ve
got a new favorite recipe for spinach.
There are a few things I really like about the recipe, but the biggest
is that it’s so incredibly easy. Y’all know how much I like simple recipes,
but this one really takes the cake.
That’s because it uses frozen spinach. That’s right—none of that defrosting the
spinach and getting your hands all green as you try to squeeze the excess
liquid out (that was never a fun task to put me in the holiday spirit!)
Also—I really want to eat more green leafy
vegetables and have my kids to eat more of them, too. This is an easy way to encourage them to eat
spinach. To lighten this up, I’ve used
light sour cream and substituted a smooth/buttery olive oil for some/all of the
margarine.
I liked this recipe so much that it’s
included in my next Southern Quilting mystery!
Quilt Trip
(written as Elizabeth Craig) launches
December 3rd.
Easy Spinach Bake
1 6- oz. package corn muffin mix
2 eggs, beaten
8 oz. sour cream
2 10--oz. packages of frozen chopped
spinach
½ cup melted margarine
½ cup grated cheddar or Monterrey Jack
cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover a 9-
by-13 casserole dish with cooking spray. Combine all the ingredients and bake
at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Now, this isn’t a gorgeous casserole, I’m
afraid, but if you put it in a pretty container on your sideboard, I’m sure
it’ll be dressed up nicely.
Hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving
this year!
Elizabeth
Find
Elizabeth’s contact information on her
website.
