Food You Can Eat: Spinach Balls

More like spinach globs but still pretty decent

No, I did not eat all of these. I gave away as many as I could.

First things first:  This recipe comes courtesy of my first cousin, once removed (yes, I had to look it up), who got horrendously screwed by this country’s legal system.  She was in an abusive relationship with a drug dealer who got busted and dragged her down with him.  She spent something like 20 years in prison because Gray Davis is a fucking chickenshit.  So, she had to rely on Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her instead, which was one of the only useful things he did in his life.

A caveat before we get started:  I used Romano cheese, because we recently bought an entire wheel of it wholesale from an Italian grocery store.  It’s something like 100 pounds of cheese—what I think of as a conversational amount of cheese—so I need to find as many ways as possible to burn through it.

Here’s what you’ll need:

2 Cups Stuffing Mix

2 Pkgs. Frozen Cooked Spinach, drained

1 Cup Parmesan Cheese

6 Eggs, beaten

¾ Cup Softened Butter

Salt and Pepper

Mix all ingredients together. 

There’s no folding here. Just mix that shit together.

Refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.  Drop from spoons like cookie dough. 

I suppose you could roll them with your hands, but if you’re going to do that, wear gloves.

Freeze.  Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 20 minutes.  Serve warm.

After plating the spinach balls, I carefully picked up the parchment and poured the melted butter over them. Solid strategy.

These were…pretty good.  I think the stuffing mix is a little overpowering.  If I were to make these again, I would probably just use regular breadcrumbs—maybe a cup at most.

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    • Mrs. Butcher has dreamed of buying an entire wheel of Romano for as long as I’ve known her.  This was the year when we could finally afford to do it.  Interestingly enough, we don’t get it as a whole wheel, but as four quarters which have been sealed in shrinkwrap.  So, we only really have to concern ourselves with each quarter as its opened.  However, the per pound price of buying a whole wheel is essentially half of what buying just a single quarter would be.  We have one of these really large rotary graters that gets attached to a table top, then we grate the cheese and store it in containers and put those containers in the freezer.

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