On Jan 9, 2:08*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:32:12 -0700, "gloria.p" >
> wrote:
>
> >John Kuthe wrote:
> >> But it's not 1/2 bad peppered up with some (a?) chopped shallot
> >> browned in EVOO and butter, and a little freshly ground black pepper
> >> and a dash of soy sauce on it, just like I do fresh spinach.
>
> >> My HGB was up last time I gave blood and I think eating spinach may
> >> have been the reason, so I'm keeping it up! (I hope!)
>
> >> John Kuthe...
>
> >1. both look the same after they are cooked
>
> This is true, plus I've never seen chopped fresh spinach offered for
> sale except for the garbage in those plastic pouches. *However whole
> leaf frozen spinach is also readily available. *Unless one is going to
> be eating spinach raw I don't see the point in buying fresh, not if
> you're going to cook it *And unless you have your own spinach patch to
> pick frozen is fresher than those dirty old leaves from the
> stupidmarket produce section... and even far worse is the bagged.
> Frozen costs less too, a lot less due to no waste. *Before I'll buy so
> called stupidmarket fresh I'll buy canned, works very well in soups.

I like buying those "dirty old leaves" from my local Farmer's Market,
but the season's over for that, so frozen it is now until Spring!

John Kuthe...