Creamed spinach with bread, and weekend muffins

January 30, 2006, 12:27 AM

Another weeknight meal last week took advantage of some onion-studded rye bread from Essential Bakery. I thought I had a bit more spinach handy, but I guess we used a fair amount of what we had started with at breakfast… anyway, I made a cream-enriched bechamel sauce with some garlic and added some spinach and parmesan. Normally, I’d be inclined to use onions for this dish, but I didn’t realize we were out until I had already set my mind on this dish.

Creamed spinach

Yesterday morning, before we headed off to my office to grab some things for my aborted Chinese New Year demo, I made some chocolate muffins embedded with a bit of raspberry jam.

Chocolate raspberry muffin

I guess they are reminiscent of thumbprint cookies, but they were softer and just lightly sweet.

Chocolate raspberry muffin detail