Spinach Casserole: A Break from the Usual

For the most part, this blog is about tech, either the latest and greatest or how it integrates with and involves people's lives. However, man cannot live on tech alone and he needs to eat once in a while. Using some leftover and frozen items, I concocted this amazingly tasty dish, modified from a recipe I found at about.com.

Because of my time using The Grocery Game to purchase groceries, in my freezer, I have a lot of different items I am trying to get through, so it is always a fun exercise to pull out a couple random items from the freezer and create something to eat.

Ingredients

• 1 package frozen spinach
• 3 strips of bacon, chopped
  
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan
• 1/3 cup grated Pecorino Romano
  
• 3 eggs, hard boiled, sliced
• 1.5 cups milk
• 3 tbsp. butter
• 3 tbsp. flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. paprika
• ground pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Thaw the spinach in a colander in the sink, making sure to get as much of the water out of it as possible. In a saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons butter; blend in 3 tablespoons flour. Add salt, pepper, and paprika. Gradually stir in milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce is thick. Add the grated cheeses until melted and remove from the heat as it starts to thicken.

Evenly, place the spinach in a lightly greased 9x9 casserole pan, top with the sliced eggs. Cover this with the sauce mixture, and then spread the chopped bacon on the top.

Bake at 350 for 30minutes.

Garlic bread makes a great accompaniment. If that is too much butter for you, just a plain baguette would also be good.