pantryslut

As part of my "this LJ is for you" campaign of the day.

For

felicks, what I had for dinner last night:

Lazy-ass Potato Spinach Gratin

This is lazy-ass because I didn't bother to look up a recipe or do any intermediate steps. Instead, I pre-heated the oven to 425 and just layered the ingredients in a casserole pan. No pre-cooking, no sauce-making, nothing. Just:

Potatoes
Spinach (raw, cleaned, stemmed)
Grated cheese (fontina in this case)
Salt and pepper (which I forgot until the end, but that's OK)

Repeat once, then top with more grated cheese and a sprinkle of Parmesan too.

It might have been a good idea to wilt the spinach first, just to make the layering easier. But this was lazy-ass, so I didn't. Frozen spinach would solve this problem, as might using a non-crinkly spinach variety.

Then I poured in a pint of cream. Honest. And stuck it in the oven and waited until at least a half hour had passed, probably more, and it smelled delicious and was browned on the top and I couldn't resist any more.

A whole pint might have been a bit too much cream, because there was still a lot of unabsorbed (but thickened, and warm) liquid in the pan. But the potatoes were cooked through, the spinach was too. And it was delicious and filling and comforting the way a gratin should be. More satisfying than my original plan, which was fried potatoes and a wilted spinach salad. Not that the latter wouldn't be what I crave under other circumstances. But deadlines make me crave butterfat, what can I say.

Poetry for

nadyalec will have to wait until later. So will skin for

abostick59.