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Obama Healthy Delicious Creamed Spinach
 
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 0 Minutes
Ready In: 15 Minutes
Servings: 6
Michele Obama's new favorite - as good as any creamed spinach anywhere
Ingredients:
2 bunches spinach, washed well and spun dry
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 shallots, chopped fine
2 garlic cloves, minced fine
Directions:
1. Cook spinach in water until limp [or better, steam in Oster Digital Food Steamer, cost $40 on so you can set it and forget it .
2. Blend/puree cooked spinach.
3. Gently fry shallots and garlic in olive oil and mix well with pureed spinach.
4. Note, a slight touch of freshly grated nutmeg, a pinch of good quality curry or any favorite spice adds a lot to this dish -
5. part of eating healthy, delicious and cheap!
6. see recent NY Times piece on 12 foods costing less than $1 - oatmeal, garbanzo beans, tuna, kale, apples and bananas,etc -.
7. it's time we gluttonous Americans stopped eating more than our fair share on a planet where billions are starving. It's conscionable -.
By RecipeOfHealth.com