Meatless Monday or Tofu Tuesday?
Disclaimer - I eat nothing with
legs. Haven’t done for seven hundred years (yes, I am that old). Years ago, I thought it would be nice to have
a family dinner together where we all sat down to the same meal. I asked both
Clueless Wonders, and the Fake Gordon Ramsay as they sucked marrow out of a
chop bone, if they’d like Meatless Monday or Tofu Tuesday. The collective went
silent and I heard a whispered, “we just want cows.” “Well, tofu up boys,” I
cried, because I want a meal that we can all sit down, at the table, where Clueless
One and Two pretend they were beamed down from another planet and are here
patiently waiting extraction, because they can’t possibly be related to myself
or the Fake Gordon Ramsay.
So on honor of Meatless Monday or
Tofu Tuesday, I bring you my Meatless Monday. Gordon is traipsing through the
snow in Chicago and complaining). Sorry, good people of Chicago, Gordon does
not transition from 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 to my Celsius friends) here in
Southern California where this cannot
be called winter, to 27F and -3C respectively. To be fair you would hear me
complaining all the way to Fiji.
So today I bring you our favorite
Meatless Monday recipe – Green Pie. It’s easy and forgiving and if I can make it
anyone can.
Thaw out half a box of filo
pastry
Squish all the water out of one
box of spinach and throw into a food processor (spinach not box)
To the food processor add:
A tub of cottage cheese
A block of crumbled feta
Two dripping tablespoons of pesto
(more or less according to taste) – the Fake Gordon Ramsay makes a pesto that
would ward off vampires.
Crack in three eggs
Throw in a teaspoon of mustard
Salt and pepper
Whizz until smooth.
Spray a cake, pie or lasagna dish
with olive oil spray and line the dish with filo, spray then another sheet of
pastry until done. Spoon in filling and bake at 180 C or 350 F until it doesn’t
wobble in the middle (wish I could say that) - about 30 to 40 minutes depending
on the size of the dish. I serve with baked sweet potato or (kumara) where I’m
from and a large dollop of sour cream.
This is a forgiving dish. I once
forgot the feta and it worked. You can double the spinach and adjust the pesto
or add another egg if you like it firmer.
This looks yummy, but I'll tell you straight up, you lost me at "food processor." That's advanced equipment, my friend.
ReplyDeleteMy lovely, a food processor is the only equipment I can use, even then it takes me an hour to assemble it. :) Thanks for stopping by.
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