Spinach pie: possible update on an older recipe!

Spinach pie

Marie Callender deep dish frozen pie crust--they sell them two in a package at Publix in Florida and Fresh Market in Utah

Poke with a fork all over--don't need weights! and bake high 400 for 10 minutes about

(You can make your own, but it's added work and time!)

Fresh spinach (at least a lb!) sauteed with garlic, hot pepper and olive oil. 

When the spinach wilts, toss garlic and pepper and remove spinach from the water it kicks out and squeeze as much juice as possible out of it--I use paper towels and a sieve.

Chop afterward...you can use frozen, too, sometimes I use both.

ricotta 

two eggs

mozzarella

cheddar 

grated and/or shaved parmigiano cheese 

pine nuts 

a tablespoon or less of sugar (sometimes two packets of Splenda or a little Stevia)

seasonings: black pepper, nutmeg,

no salt because the parmigiano cheese is salty enough 

Top with seasoned breadcrumbs and dabs of butter

Bake high at 400 for 10 minutes and then at 375 for another 20-25 

I can't give you ingredient amounts because I do it all by eye and feel and usually make more than one. Sorry!

The other two I made that day I added cut up ham and salami and froze them for New Year's for Nico and my sister-in-law Donna.

Enjoy!

Rolled stuffed fresh flounder with scallops

I made rolled stuffed fillet of flounder tonight--I change it up every time. 

Tonight's was a stuffing made of:

olive oil 
capers 
black olives ct-up
pine nuts
chopped parsley 
seasoned bread crumbs 
cut-up scallops.  

Brown the fat rolls slightly in olive and herb, garlic butter--flatten them with the spatula a little.  Then fling in some vino, and when the alcohol burns off I add tomato sauce I have at the ready.  High heat, then low. Simmer till done.  Doesn't need much cooking if, beforehand, you toss the ingredients for the stuffing with a little butter in the microwave oven for one minute, stirring after 30 seconds.