Lately I haven’t been able to eat eggs without gagging, and most proteins make me lose any appetite I might have. So I really needed to sneak some in, but didn’t want to choke down a protein shake. So I thought maybe if I made something that was mostly NOT eggs, with eggs to hold it together (so I couldn’t taste/feel the eggs)… just maybe that would trick me into eating eggs!

And it worked. And it was delicious.

I give you:

The Spinach Frittata Thing

Sorry for the crap phone pictures… I didn’t exactly “style” anything either. Just took a couple snaps of my SECOND piece after I realized the first piece was so good.

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit

Ingredients:

• Spinach – either fresh and cooked, or thawed frozen spinach, drained. About 1.5 cups. Not an exact science.
• Half an onion, sliced and cooked in butter until it’s as “done” as you prefer. I like mine really wilty and cooked… about half were brown when I got tired of cooking them and took them off the heat.
• A handful of pine nuts, lightly toasted and roughly chopped
• 2ish cloves of roasted garlic – more if you want, less if you want. Make sure it’s mooshed up so it will mix in well with the other ingredients.
• 2-3 eggs. I used 3. If you have slightly less spinach you might want 2. Just enough to hold everything together without being too eggy.

Coat a pie pan in oil or butter (or bacon grease!) and combine all ingredients well. Pat it with a spatula or the back of a spoon so it’s even and flat, then bake about 15 minutes or until the egg is set.

Sprinkle with salt, cut like a pie, and serve.

It was delicious. My husband tasted it (but he was making hot wings for himself tonight – lucky guy!) and said it was good. I tasted it…and then ate the entire thing. I was hoping to maybe have some leftover for breakfast, but on the other hand, by tomorrow I might be having a spinach aversion! Pregnancy is strange. So I took advantage of the tastiness and my fleeting appetite and just scarfed it down. AND for the first time in forever, I get to share a RECIPE with y’all! Maybe things will shape up this way more often in the near future. Cross your fingers!