In celebration of baby spinach

Hei hei,

For my first post, three meals i have recently cooked using a massive bag of baby spinach i recently purchased from Meny in Ruselokka. A long way for an Anker girl to go for baby spinach, but well worth it. I still have heaps left and will be using the remainder, I expect, in a pasta sauce and a curry. I can't wait.

Incidentally, the brighter food is, the better it is for you. I learnt this on Oprah. Baby spinach is therefore excellent, as are blueberries and dark chocolate. Green leafies are very good especially for vegos [though remember to consume with orange juice! argh! rules!], and after discovering a small caterpillar in a bunch of brocolli for the SECOND time in a year [yes Nicolle, it happened AGAIN!] that is off the menu for me, and i advise you all to stop eating it, especially if you are a vegetarian and don't want to accidentally consume meat.

So enough ranting, I will now experiment with 'uploading' photos to illustrate. Hmm... how to do that... aha! That works well.

1. Tortellini with spinach
Dried tortellini (also from Meny - they should be paying me) - can't remember the brand but it's excellent (although 3-4 servings? Entree sized maybe!). Metlt butter, fry garlic and onion. Mix through cooked pasta, add spinach, cherry tomatos and fetta for good luck

2. Baguette (Meny, 7kr, highly recommended), with cheese, tomato and baby spinach. I also invested in some Dijonaise which really completes the ensemble and was money well spent. Serve with blueberries for extra antioxidants and a more attractive aesthetic quality

3. Warm salad
I never thought salad was particularly good as a main meal, until i discovered you could add oil and cheese. It's now a staple of mine, although usually i would roast sweet potato as per Nicolle's recipe! However without an oven i am forced to fry my vegetables - here i have used eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, with fresh spinach and capsicum and fetta. Serve with a gollop of dressing (i used a low-fat italian dressing, which i recommend).

And that's it for my celebration of baby spinach! I think i'll cook me another baguette for lunch. Stay tuned for upcoming posts - "Introduction to Vegemite for prospective Australian residents"; "An overview of Scandinavian chocolate", "How do do a Tim Tam Slam" and "Experimental Norwegian cooking: Risen-Grot"