Spinach and a Blender: This Season's Perfect Couple

I added blended spinach to my Annies Mac and Cheese... stick with me.

I just got my wisdom teeth out, all four, no pain meds or sedation. My face looks like the bloated, obtuse jawed statues on Easter Island and I can only open my mouth wide enough to fit an espresso spoon. While the rite of passage experience would advise a diet of ice cream and jello pudding, I'm annoying and health conscious as fuck. It was within the quandary of adding vegetables to a mush oriented diet that I made an earth shattering discovery: the blender.

I have always been a large proponent of adding spinach to my meals, that shit cooks down from cups to tablespoons and seldom alters the flavor. But as much as I pretend to like it, the slimy stringy texture isn't always welcome. I'm accustomed to blending spinach in my smoothies but it hadn't occurred to my pea brain to apply that principle elsewhere until now. 

I will admit it was a humbling experience, pouring milk into a blender with all that green shit. Perhaps even more discomforting was how proud I was of my spilk. The blender technique had eliminated both slime and stringiness. The spinach, aside from its neon green pigment, was entirely undetectable in the dish. 

This revelation got my creative juices flowing, how many dishes had I previously been ruining that I can now supplement with this technique. Soups, sauces, eggs, I honestly can't think of a single savory dish that would be ruined by a bit of blended greens. 

For soup: Blend spinach with broth before adding other ingredients.

For Eggs: Blend spinach with raw eggs, salt, and pepper and pour mixture into pan. Dr. Seuss will be proud.

For sauce: Blend spinach with sauce before mixing with dish.

This tactic is the perfect and perhaps easiest example of my favorite piece of dietician advise: to add rather than subtract. Through my years battling disordered eating I've learned that restriction makes me miserable. Now instead of eliminating my favorite unhealthy foods I add nutrients to them. Spilk: the unexpected cure to a 4 year toxic relationship with food.