recipe for creamed spinach
• I don’t know how others make it, but I just make a bechamel sauce and add spinach. That’s pretty easy… Permalink | Reply laurendlewis Apr 19, 2007 08:16AM • re: laurendlewis not really easy if u have NO IDEA what a bechamel sauce is and how to make that. I am a good cook…trust me…but I have never made that. Permalink | Reply Johnresa Apr 19, 2007 08:58AM • re: Johnresa Bechamel sauce is one of the mother sauces and is essential to the good cook’s repertoire. Just go on epicurious or food network for a bechamel recipe — melt butter, add flour, cook the flour a bit, add milk, cook some more. The proportions will be available on any recipe website, along with the cooking times. Basically you are creating a roux and cooking the roux a bit to get rid of the raw flour taste. Adding the milk and cooking it will continue to cook the flour and will thicken the sauce, then you can add whatever seasonings you like — salt and pepper and nutmeg are idea for creamed spinach. Then add your
