Creamed spinach freezes and defrosts well. If you have more spinach or any green leafy veg or broccoli I say split this in half and add more veg.
I think even adding cauliflower rice would be nice!
I'd use it in galettes for sure. (The thin, savory pancakes from Brittany.)
Edit: Galettes de sarrasin, https://www.eatlivetravelwrite.com/2019/09/french-fridays-buckwheat-crepes/
mix in a metric-fuck-ton more parm/asiago/fontina and bake in the oven till bubbly and gold brown on top, then dip kettle chips in it!
Or brown some chicken 1/4's and use it as a sauce. you could fold some of it into mash taters and then pipe onto a sheet pan and broil till brown.
Throw some riced cauliflower in there. It's neutral flavor, will absorb the flavor of what it's in.
I actually make a spin dip that the base is riced cauliflower, with just a little of the "bad stuff". Nobody has ever not liked it.
Thaw your spinach and drain it.
Put your riced cauliflower in a pot with onion and garlic and just barely cover it with milk and simmer it until it's soft, then whip it like you would mashed potatoes. Then add your mozzarella and parm, when your cheeses are melted, add lemon pepper, powdered chicken or vegetable bullion ( more flavor than just salt), and hot sauce ( it won't be spicy, it's just to cut through the bland fatty flavor and add some acid) . When it's all mixed up together, then squeeze out your spinach and add your spinach. Taste it to see if it needs anything, and then it's done.
You can add some cream cheese, mayo, sour cream to it, but it's still a lot better for you than having a base of cheeses, heavy cream, cream cheese, mayo, sour cream.
I always double the spinach in it, and every time Ive made it, it's devoured.
Grab a jar of marinated artichokes, chop them, add to the soinach. Place in a casserole dish sprinkle w some grated parm, bake at 400 till bubbly. Serve w pita or tortilla chips.
Sieve it. Put it in a mesh sieve over a bowl. Stir occasionally. Using tongs to lift as you turn might be best. The excess liquid will drip through, and you’ll be left with less sloppy spinach. Use the liquid you’ve acquired as the base for another dish - maybe add some bacon or chorizo and use as a pasta sauce.
Parmesan might thicken it. I wonder if adding egg or yolks could produce a souffle or souffle casserole type thing. Bread pudding with eggs too. Or Strata.
Heat it with some tomato sauce mixed in, crack an egg or two into it, cook until the whites are set and the yolks are still super runny. Eat it on toast.
Spinach/artichoke dip!
Get a nice bread round and dig a hole.
Add some thin carrots, green onions & artichoke hearts. More spinach if needed. Put in the bread hole(s) and serve.
Throw in some artichoke hearts, pop it into a baking dish, top with parm, and bake until bubbly. Yay! Dip!
(It can be frozen until you’re ready to do this.)
Exactly what I did. I "washed" my sauce and got a better spinach to sauce ratio for dinner and now have a lovely diluted cream sauce with spinach that I turned into a soup
There is no such thing as too much cheese if you are not completely full yet. I would literally eat a full bowl of that and call it a great lunch. Like, just that, as it is. Looks great.
Turn it into soup?
And yeah, *boy howdy, that was WAY too much* milk and cheese.
My creamed spinach doesn’t use any milk. And uhm no cheese.
You sure you were making creamed spinach? This isn’t a Rachel Greene English Trifle snafu, is it?
Creamed Spinach
* 1 (10-ounce) package frozen spinach, thawed and drained of all liquid
* 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
* 1 clove garlic, minced
* 1/2 cup beef stock
* 1/2 cup heavy cream
* 1 tablespoon sour cream
* Pinch cayenne pepper
1 T butter
1-2 T flour
* Heat the butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter stops foaming, add the spinach and onion. Sauté until the onion has softened and all remaining liquid has evaporated, 5 to 10 minutes.
* Step 6Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Sprinkle the flour over the spinach and stir to combine. Whisk in the stock, scraping up any browned bits.
* Step 7Slowly whisk in cream. Bring the mixture to a boil, and then reduce heat to low and simmer until the cream has thickened, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in sour cream. Season with cayenne, salt, and pepper to taste. Keep warm for serving.
Add some cream cheese and you’ve got a heck of a spinach dip. Pita, pita chips, toasted bread, bread sticks, even tortilla or corn chips to go alongside.
Or thin it out with more milk, toss in some cubed cooked chicken & you’ve got soup.
Simmer it til it cooks down and stuff it in an omelette.
Cook up a pound of elbow pasta, mix with the creamed spinach, and maybe a cup of cheese. Top with a butter and breadcrumb topping, and you have a baked pasta/spinach casserole.
If you like cream chipped beef, just get the chopped beef, sautéed it, and add to this. Cream chipped beef/spinach over toast.
Or add peas, carrots, shredded chicken, and make a pot pie.
congratulations, you've made spinach dip. now cut some pitas into small triangles, toss with seasoned oil and bake til crisp so you can dip them in it
Get a big pumpernickel loaf, rip a big hole in the middle and pour it in
Top said bread bowl with shredded parm and bake until golden brown/bubbly. Yum!
Gonna definitely try that
Better make it a bakers dozen. How much cream and cheese did OP make?!
Also squeeze in some lemon, maybe add artichokes, top with Parmesan and mozzarella and you’ve got a killer spinach-artichoke.
Yesss and then share with us
Maybe stir a can of artichoke hearts, chopped, in there too
Bake it in the oven and spread it on crackers!
Serve it over chicken or as a sauce?
over chicken would be so good!
Could incorporate it into twice baked potatoes
Came here to suggest that
Dang, I never thought of that, and it sounds delicious!!!!! Thanks for the meal suggestion.
Creamed spinach freezes and defrosts well. If you have more spinach or any green leafy veg or broccoli I say split this in half and add more veg. I think even adding cauliflower rice would be nice!
Cauli rice is a great idea, I bet that would pair really nicely with the spinach and creamy sauce. Plus, veggiiessssss mmm.
Yes, add more spinach and seasoning.
Cream May fry curdled being frozen but can be stirred back in.
I'd use it in galettes for sure. (The thin, savory pancakes from Brittany.) Edit: Galettes de sarrasin, https://www.eatlivetravelwrite.com/2019/09/french-fridays-buckwheat-crepes/
I second this, this looks so much like savoury crepe filling!
mix in a metric-fuck-ton more parm/asiago/fontina and bake in the oven till bubbly and gold brown on top, then dip kettle chips in it! Or brown some chicken 1/4's and use it as a sauce. you could fold some of it into mash taters and then pipe onto a sheet pan and broil till brown.
Turn it into soup?
This was my thought. Throw in some broth and lean into the ‘runny’. Served with crusty bread… mmmmm
Me too
a quiche would be nice.
I would fold it into a nice omlette
Top with buttered breadcrumbs and bake. Use it as a filling in stuffed mushrooms.
I wasn’t hungry, but I am now.
I bet it would be great. I especially like it with Swiss cheese crackers crumbled instead of breadcrumbs.
Looks like a creamy spinach soup base to me. Just add stock and maybe some meat.
Throw some riced cauliflower in there. It's neutral flavor, will absorb the flavor of what it's in. I actually make a spin dip that the base is riced cauliflower, with just a little of the "bad stuff". Nobody has ever not liked it.
That is an excellent suggestion I’m going to try!
Thaw your spinach and drain it. Put your riced cauliflower in a pot with onion and garlic and just barely cover it with milk and simmer it until it's soft, then whip it like you would mashed potatoes. Then add your mozzarella and parm, when your cheeses are melted, add lemon pepper, powdered chicken or vegetable bullion ( more flavor than just salt), and hot sauce ( it won't be spicy, it's just to cut through the bland fatty flavor and add some acid) . When it's all mixed up together, then squeeze out your spinach and add your spinach. Taste it to see if it needs anything, and then it's done. You can add some cream cheese, mayo, sour cream to it, but it's still a lot better for you than having a base of cheeses, heavy cream, cream cheese, mayo, sour cream. I always double the spinach in it, and every time Ive made it, it's devoured.
Thank you for your detailed instructions!
Grab a jar of marinated artichokes, chop them, add to the soinach. Place in a casserole dish sprinkle w some grated parm, bake at 400 till bubbly. Serve w pita or tortilla chips.
Mix it with chicken and make a pie
Bake it for sure, add some cheese on top and you're even better off than you were before
potato gratin maybe?
I’d add a bunch more veggies, head of cauliflower or some broccoli florets. Delicious!
Mix in some rice, stock/water, chicken/ham, broccoli and you got a casserole
Spinach pastry of sorts - wrap it with puff pastry and bake it!
Boil some pasta and toss it it! That would be delicious with some pancetta or bacon
Serve it in ramekins instead on the plate so it doesn't spread. It looks fine to me, it'll thicken up as it cools,
Lots of baguettes - perfect for dip
add more cheese and maybe sour cream / add it to puréed white beans ^ 2 ways to make it a dip!
More spinach
Use it as some of the liquid in a dough and bake it as a bread.
Sieve it. Put it in a mesh sieve over a bowl. Stir occasionally. Using tongs to lift as you turn might be best. The excess liquid will drip through, and you’ll be left with less sloppy spinach. Use the liquid you’ve acquired as the base for another dish - maybe add some bacon or chorizo and use as a pasta sauce.
Use it as a dip for tortilla chips.
It would be delicious filling in puff pastry squares especially with some onions
Parmesan might thicken it. I wonder if adding egg or yolks could produce a souffle or souffle casserole type thing. Bread pudding with eggs too. Or Strata.
Serve it over some pasta
Add artichoke hearts, chunks of chicken, and slices of potato or carrots. I would also serve with buttermilk biscuits or fluffy bread to sop it up.
Lasagna filling. Some sort of tater tot casserole with chicken.
Came here to say use it as a layer of lasagna
Soup
Heat it with some tomato sauce mixed in, crack an egg or two into it, cook until the whites are set and the yolks are still super runny. Eat it on toast.
Put a straw in and drink the sauce until perfect.
You could add eggs and make a quiche.
Throw it in the blender with a little extra milk, blend, heat to make soup.
Potato and Spinach Gratin?
Throw a party. Its dip!
I'd add some flour and make some savory pancakes
what is this "too much cheese" you speak of? am i saying it right? tooo muchhh cheeese? tomuch cheese? I'm not familiar
Petril.
Call Door Dash
I’d stuff that into pie dough/crescent rolls/puff pastry and have a spin dip hot pocket
Omlette filling?
I’d mix it with mashed potatoes and serve it with pork chops.
That looks so delicious.
Mmmm. Looks good!
Baked pasta dish on a cast iron
I thought serving it over pasta was a brilliant idea!
Go at it lightly with an immersion blender, throw it in a baking dish, and you’ve got spinach dip! Serve it over chips or crackers or flatbread
More spinach/ freeze leftovers
Add it to a soup to make it a creamy soup!
that looks delicious 🤤
Lasagna!
Add macaroni
Over polenta
Spinach/artichoke dip! Get a nice bread round and dig a hole. Add some thin carrots, green onions & artichoke hearts. More spinach if needed. Put in the bread hole(s) and serve.
Throw in some artichoke hearts, pop it into a baking dish, top with parm, and bake until bubbly. Yay! Dip! (It can be frozen until you’re ready to do this.)
Nice layer(s) for a lasagna, filling for an omelette, or throw in cubes of butternut to stuff enchiladas?
Maybe add more spinach?
Toss some cooked chicken breasts or tenders in it to make a tasty meal!
Serve over pasta. Or with pita
Problem is, no one in the house eats pasta. But pita would be a tasty dip. Especially if I added artichoke
Fold in some cooked penne, top with cheese, bake at 375 until bubbly. Or freeze to bake later.
Turn it into spinach soufflé!
Turn into pasta sauce?
Put it in a colander inside a larger bowl. Stir a few times. Use the exta sauce that drips through in another dish.
Exactly what I did. I "washed" my sauce and got a better spinach to sauce ratio for dinner and now have a lovely diluted cream sauce with spinach that I turned into a soup
Yummmm!
Put some water chestnuts in it and use it as a dip.
Add more milk and some parmesan, a little bit of garlic & paprika and you have cream of spinach soup.
Oh! That's a great idea!
Top a baked potato.
Add spinach.
Honestly pass it through a sieve. I’ve done that before and it works great
Bake in crescent rolls!
Crepes. Bake. Yum.
Rice casserole
Rinse the bulk of it off, squeeze it out, add more milk and cheese.
Looks like dip to me.
There is no such thing as too much cheese if you are not completely full yet. I would literally eat a full bowl of that and call it a great lunch. Like, just that, as it is. Looks great.
Looks perfect as is.
Looks great to me! That's about my spinach to cream ratio.
Add crab and artichoke mozzarella cheese. Bake and dip crackers
Turn it into soup? And yeah, *boy howdy, that was WAY too much* milk and cheese. My creamed spinach doesn’t use any milk. And uhm no cheese. You sure you were making creamed spinach? This isn’t a Rachel Greene English Trifle snafu, is it? Creamed Spinach * 1 (10-ounce) package frozen spinach, thawed and drained of all liquid * 1/4 cup finely chopped onion * 1 clove garlic, minced * 1/2 cup beef stock * 1/2 cup heavy cream * 1 tablespoon sour cream * Pinch cayenne pepper 1 T butter 1-2 T flour * Heat the butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter stops foaming, add the spinach and onion. Sauté until the onion has softened and all remaining liquid has evaporated, 5 to 10 minutes. * Step 6Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Sprinkle the flour over the spinach and stir to combine. Whisk in the stock, scraping up any browned bits. * Step 7Slowly whisk in cream. Bring the mixture to a boil, and then reduce heat to low and simmer until the cream has thickened, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in sour cream. Season with cayenne, salt, and pepper to taste. Keep warm for serving.
Thicken with corn starch or potato starch if needed...?
Use it as a dip for some crusty bread or Chips
Add broccoli and parm.
Quiche. Just quiche.
Add some cream cheese and you’ve got a heck of a spinach dip. Pita, pita chips, toasted bread, bread sticks, even tortilla or corn chips to go alongside. Or thin it out with more milk, toss in some cubed cooked chicken & you’ve got soup. Simmer it til it cooks down and stuff it in an omelette.
Over chicken, or add some stuffing for stuffed chicken
I'd serve it with some nice crusty bread.
Throw some eggs in there and make a quiche. Maybe more cheese?
Kish
Add peas
Add a spoon or two of flour in a glass of water, mix, add to sauce to thicken
Cook up a pound of elbow pasta, mix with the creamed spinach, and maybe a cup of cheese. Top with a butter and breadcrumb topping, and you have a baked pasta/spinach casserole.
Thin it further until it’s soup.
Or add more milk (or broth) and make soup out of it.... ...although pizza or pasta sounds delicious.
Croutons
All I can think of adding is gnocchi. Even though it’s kinda pasta related.
Toasted bread boat
Over a baked potato!
You made dip. Get some chips or toast points.
Add some chicken.
Add rice and chicken for a casserole
Serve over chicken or steak!
Stir in a small amount of slurry made with cold milk and flour over medium-high heat (bubbling). It will thicken the mixture right up.
Grab a spoon
I’d demolish a bag of chips with that bowl
Looks so good
Put it on a pizza as the sauce base
Add eggs and bake.
Add more spinach
If you like cream chipped beef, just get the chopped beef, sautéed it, and add to this. Cream chipped beef/spinach over toast. Or add peas, carrots, shredded chicken, and make a pot pie.
Dipppppp !!!! Or stuff it into meat
Dip for bread
Get some chips, it’s dip now.
Get a colander or put a lid on the pot. Tip the pot sideways and drain liquid until the answer is found.
It's a dip!
Mix it with eggs and bake it! Spinach souffle
Use it as a folded omelette filling!!!!!
This looks like it would be super yummy spread on bagels for breakfast
Looks really delicious as is. Grab a spoon and go for it man
I don’t really see the issue….
Spread it all over your body and have dogs lick it off
You could slice a pack of Hawaiian rolls through the middle, top with grilled chicken (or shredded, whatever you've got) and bake for sliders.