What’s big, green, and scary?
You know how sometimes a recipe will call for, say, a pound of spinach, and it will be listed like this?
1 pound spinach (about 16 cups)
Whenever I see that, I get this image of myself trying to measure out sixteen cups of spinach leaves with a one-cup measure, and the spinach is falling all over the floor and I’m saying, “Wait, was that 13 or 14? Crap.” This is thoroughly irrational, because I have a scale, and no recipe depends on using precisely the right amount of spinach anyway. Also, sixteen cups of spinach cooks down to about one cup ten seconds after it hits the pan.
Still, when I see a recipe like that, I tend to make something else. Tonight, though, I’m making salmon with creamy spinach-poblano sauce. It involves ten cups of spinach. This may end in tears.
Comment by mitchell
so, did you measure one cup, find the weight and then weigh out the rest?
Posted on May 1, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Comment by mamster
Nah, I just threw in a bunch of spinach.
Posted on May 1, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Comment by stacy
that sounds really good. where;s the recipe from?
Posted on May 2, 2006 at 6:59 am
Comment by mamster
Once again, it’s from Rick Bayless’s Mexican Everyday. It didn’t actually turn out that great. It’s basically salmon with creamed spinach, and the creamed spinach wasn’t poblano-y enough. I wouldn’t make it again.
Posted on May 2, 2006 at 8:50 am