amylsacks' photos with the keyword: spinach

I guess you sprinkle on the vitamins at the end, like croutons. (Originally posted to flickr on Feburary 3rd, 2011.)

"Broad Flanders and New Zealand"... weren't they supporting characters on The Muppet Show ?

The upper left and lower right images, in particular, make me wonder if directors like Roger Corman and Bill Rebane got routinely dragged to ladies' luncheons during their formative years. (Sweetbreads... bleah!)

Do take these lovely, flavorful greens and sink them deep in a sea of mega-sweetened bland neon goo from a bottle! What could be better?! (Okay. I actually do sometimes crave crappy "French" dressing from a bottle. But only on hunks of iceberg lettuce and maybe a few cement-like boxed croutons. What else would you do with iceberg lettuce, anyway?)

Love the herring illustration, but the recipe itself doesn't show up until "N," for "Norwegian." The ordering of the recipes in these books usually is a little wacky. In fact, some of the recipes mentioned in the verses (like Beans Vinaigrette a couple of pages back) don't appear at all. Oh, well. Other recipes: Ham Mousse, Holiday Molds, Ham and Cheese Salad, Ham Loaf, Individual Cream Cheese Balls, Jellied Cheese Ring, Jellied Pineapple and Carrot Mold, Jellied Salmon Mold, Jellied Tire Chains With OW-30 Sauce, Jiffy Luncheon Salad, Kitty's Mixed Salad (does not contain actual cat, thankfully), Lime Cucumber Salad, Lobster and Halibut, Lemon French Dressing, Lobster Salad, and Mayonnaise. (Okay, I may have made one or two of these up, just to see if you were still with me.) Then there's: Norwegian Chopped Herring (see comment above), Nancy's Pink Seafood, New Orleans Creole Dressing, New England Potato Salad, Orange and Black Olives Salad, Potato Salad, Potato-Bacon Salad, Potato And Hard-Boiled Egg, Pear-Cheese Salad, Piquante Dressing, Queen's Taste Mustard Cream Dressing, Relish Aspic, Ricotta Ring, Russian Dressing, Royal Danish Herring Salad (again with the poor displaced herring!) and Roe Salad.

Some of these dishes sound okay to me. I would absolutely attempt the croquettes if my kitchen was suited to deep frying. The mallow-sweet potato combo never did it for me, though. At childhood holiday dinners, I used to trail the person who only wanted the mallow part of the dish. After they'd done their discreet skimming, I'd move in and take what they'd left behind. Win-win.