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Sep 19, 2020
2 min

What to Make for Sunday Breakfast? How About a Cheesy-Spinach Bake?

This is a favorite breakfast bake and will keep you and your household fueled with no meat needed. The dish has a significant amount of protein in it from eggs, cottage cheese, and milk! Nonetheless, it isn't heavy or greasy, just good! The easy to make bake (besides rhyming) puffs up nicely as it cooks to golden brown goodness and powers you through the hours in a way that oatmeal just cannot do. Feel free to vary the cheese, if you'd like. Sharp cheddar and Swiss (Gruy

Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Cheesy Spinach Muffins--Air Fryer or Oven?

You can make these savory muffins in the air fryer or oven--you choose! The muffins are full of cheese--cheddar and Parmesan--and a little spinach adds interest as well as flavor that complements the sharp cheddar and nutty-salty Parmesan. The addition of Italian herbs makes the muffins smell wonderful as they cook. The muffins are great with any meal of the day or for a simple snack, perhaps with a piece of cheese alongside. I use white whole-wheat flour in the muffins f

Jun 27, 2019
3 min

Cheap Gourmet: Tuna and Spinach Crepes

There is something about crepes that makes them seem "gourmet," although, quite frankly, they're simple to do. When you combine the crepes with canned tuna, frozen spinach, onions, and a mornay--also know as "cheese"--sauce, you've got a simple gourmet dinner. In this case, it's also cheap. Nonetheless, "cheap" doesn't mean poor. The tuna and spinach crepes are full of flavor as well as nutrition. After filling the crepes, you bake them briefly in the oven, which gives t

Jun 5, 2019
3 min

Cheap and Good: Spinach-Stuffed Meatloaf with Mushroom Sauce

Sometimes coming up with dinner options that don’t take too long, aren’t too expensive, and that appeal to multiple people with different tastes isn’t that easy. Over the years, I’ve found that ground beef or turkey are my go-to meats, particularly because both are readily available at most markets and either can be turned into something good relatively quickly. But what to cook that might be a little different from “hamburger helper”? My husband, who is a meatloaf lover,

Jan 29, 2019
2 min

Air Fryer Pear, Spinach, and Goat Cheese Salad

The air fryer is quite handy for roasting vegetables and fruits, like pears for this Pear, Spinach, and Goat Cheese Salad. The pears caramelize on the edges during their stint in the air fryer and come out soft, warm, and sweet. A scattering of earthy, nutty goat cheese provides contrast and toasts up to warm creaminess on top of the pears. The pears nestle in a bed of fresh baby spinach scattered with bright carrots and sliced green onions. While the pears "air fry," you

Dec 24, 2018
6 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 24

Spinach-Pomegranate Salad Italian Wedding Soup Sweet Potato Scones Amaretti Cake with Raspberry Sherbet Many of you probably have foods that you “must have” on Christmas Eve. Making Italian wedding soup is a tradition in my house, but it isn’t a family practice. My mom always fixed oyster stew for Christmas Eve. I hated it. The stew featured strange-looking alien things (the oysters) submerged in milk with butter blobs and crumbled saltines on top (apparently to hide the

Dec 20, 2018
4 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 19

Butternut Soup Sweet Potato-Chickpea Patties Cauliflower Mash Spinach Orange-Almond Cake Tonight is a good evening for a meatless supper. A simple butternut soup will warm you up and not plump you out. The soup is made with frozen squash puree and can be ready in less than 20 minutes. After the soup, try sweet potato-chickpea patties. The ingredients mix quickly in a food processor, and the patties—rich with fiber and protein and nicely warmed with spices—cook in less tha

Dec 18, 2018
4 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 18

Fresh Carrots with Red Pepper Hummus Chicken and Chickpea Skillet Supper Fresh Fruit or Greek Yogurt Cake with Honey-Apple-Nut Sauce Tonight we have a one-dish supper—simple, quick, nutritious, and delicious! The chicken and chickpea dish includes warm spices, spinach, and feta, with a bit of lemon to freshen it. It would go well with some little carrots to dip in creamy red pepper hummus. Fresh fruit—perhaps some oranges—would be an easy and healthy dessert. Nonetheless,

Dec 16, 2018
6 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- Third Sunday

Caprese Salad Parmesan Popovers Meatballs in Florentine Sauce Fettuccine Steamed Green Beans Tiramisu or Minty Brownies Celebrate the third Sunday of Advent with a dinner that incorporates the colors of the season. Start with a caprese salad, bursting with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, and fresh basil. Some Parmesan popovers would go nicely with the salad as well as the main dish, meatballs in Florentine sauce. The low-fat meatballs simmer in a simple tomato sauce, and you

Dec 9, 2018
4 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 9

Spinach-Avocado Salad Garlic Baked Tilapia Orzo with Tomatoes and Feta Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Truffles It’s time to look after your body with a healthy heart dinner! To start, a spinach salad with avocado, onion, orange slices, and chopped walnuts gives you a great dose of important vitamins and heart-aiding fats. The baked tilapia doesn’t taste too “fishy” and instead sends out a wonderful garlicky aroma as it bakes with crispy, cheesy whole-wheat breadcrumbs on

Dec 5, 2018
2 min

One-Pan Vegetable Dish: Delicata Squash and Spinach

Today's offering is a simple vegetable dish that bakes in the oven alongside the meat (or other dish) of your choice. Mellow, nutty delicata squash combines with onions and spices and turns into an incredibly tasty sweet, savory side dish. You don't need to peel the delicata. It's one of the few winter squashes that has easily edible skin. Nonetheless, I generally pre-cook the squash in the microwave to give it a head start and to make it easier to cut and seed. The pre-

Dec 5, 2018
5 min

In the Advent Kitchen -- December 5

Tomato-Basil Salad Polenta Casserole Spinach Lemon-Rosemary Bars with Sherbet Tonight’s dinner is rich but meatless. Let’s start with Tomato-Basil Salad. Then, keeping with an Italian theme, follow with Polenta Casserole. This is a dish your children (or spouse, significant friend, or just about anyone else) can do. It requires only layering and baking—not hard—and it’s full of lovely, warm, gooey melted cheese. Frozen spinach zapped in the microwave adds a nice green to

Nov 5, 2018
3 min

Chicken in Red Pepper and Spinach Sauce: No Blender Needed

Chicken in Red Pepper and Spinach Sauce is the result of my efforts to create a main dish that would complement pasta but that doesn't focus on tomatoes. I also wanted something that's a bit different from the usual Alfredo sauce. On the internet, I found multiple versions of red pepper sauce, most of which required whirring the hot sauce in the blender. That isn't going to happen. The technique risks splattering hot sauce all over the kitchen--yes, even with the lid on--

Aug 24, 2018
1 min

Crustless Spinach-Swiss Quiche

You won't miss the crust in this quiche, and it's a great way to use up leftover spinach. The quiche makes a nice, filling but not-too-heavy, breakfast or brunch dish, or you can serve it for an easy supper with a salad and bread (sourdough!). The quiche includes no flours, so if you have gluten-sensitive people to feed, it's a good alternative. Best of all, the quiche tastes great with minimum work! Mildly flavored with plenty of cheesy goodness! Yum, yum. Crustless Spi

Jul 6, 2018
2 min

Quick and Simple Supper: Chicken in Spinach Pesto Sauce

For a quick, easy Friday supper that is better for you and more economical than take-out pizza, how about Chicken in Spinach Pesto Sauce? It's a simple skillet dish that cooks in about 20 minutes and includes plenty of good-for-you vegetables as well as low-fat chicken breasts. You probably have most of the ingredients for the dish on hand, or you can find them easily at the market. Pesto sauce keeps the chicken tender and moist and provides incredible flavor to the accomp

Jun 11, 2018
2 min

Need a Brunch Dish for Father's Day? Try a Spinach Egg Roll

In search of something different yet not too weird for a special breakfast/brunch, I came up with this spinach egg roll after a thorough search through many internet sites and a lot of tinkering and adjusting in the kitchen. The egg roll is really just a baked omelet with stuff in it--easy and quick to do. Nonetheless, the egg roll looks good dressed up on a fancy plate for brunch, and it slices nicely to serve multiple people. With a little onion powder and grainy Dijon m

Jun 8, 2018
2 min

Ditch the Sugar: Savory Spinach-Cheese Muffins

These muffins are great alongside the stuffed eggplant and zucchini recipe I posted on the website, and the muffins also are good with salads and breakfast eggs. Try them for something a little different from the usual sweet muffin. You only need a little cooked spinach, so if you have some loitering in your refrigerator, you're in luck! The Parmesan cheese lends a bit of smoky-salty flavor, and Italian herbs make the muffins smell and taste wonderful. I use white whole-w

Jun 5, 2018
2 min

Quicky Supper: Spinach Pesto Parmesan Pasta

Some nights you need something quick, easy, and that even picky eaters will eat. Spinach Pesto Parmesan Pasta is it. You can have it ready in only a few minutes after your noodles boil--about the time you need to brown some chicken sausages to go with the pasta, if you'd like. I use whatever pasta I have on hand, in this case it was radiatori, which is good for catching the pesto sauce. Homemade pesto sauce is great, but, if you don't have any, no problem. Use the commer

May 22, 2018
2 min

Bunny Food: Thyme-Roasted Cauliflower and Spinach with Cranberries

Okay, I don't know how the bunnies feel about thyme-roasted cauliflower, but they do like spinach. And my tulips, lillies, hostas, impatiens, and anything else that I've just planted. The deer got to my tomato plants first, but I'm sure Nibbles the Bunny would have liked those, too, if Bambi hadn't eaten them. I live in Fairfax County, one of the most developed areas in Virginia. Nonetheless, we have plenty of critters wandering through our yard, probably because we have

Jan 29, 2018
2 min

Colorful Tumeric Cauliflower: A Dish Your Kids Will Eat

Face it. Cauliflower is kind of boring. It needs dressing up. So do it. Opt for Tumeric Roasted Cauliflower with Spinach. It's anything but boring. The cauliflower, seasoned with bright yellow tumeric (curcumin, the compound in turmeric responsible for tumeric's bright color, has been associated with a host of health benefits, particularly anti-inflammatory and antioxidant powers) and plenty of onion and garlic powder, becomes sweet after roasting. Fresh spinach adds m

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The write-ups are short and so are the recipes! Thenfeedthem.com focuses on providing tasty, easy, simple recipes for time-crunched, hungry, frugal, cash-poor people. Or just about everyone at some point or another.

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No, there's not a lot about me here. I'm a writer, cook, and normal person, most of the time. I'll tell you a little about my life in my posts but not much (I'm kind of boring).

The filler is the food, not my life story! And, after all, "food is love." I hope you are filled to capacity. And cook to fill others, too!