Ricotta Torta with Beet Greens and Spinach

Made the Torta from a modified Weight Watcher's Recipe

Ingredients:

1/4 cup plain bread crumbs

2 tsp olive oil

2 small red onions, chopped

1 bunch of beet greens, chopped

1 small bunch spinach, chopped

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 16 oz container part-skim ricotta cheese (I buy Sorrento because it has no additives or thickeners)

1 egg, lightly beaten

salt & freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees F

Spray a 9" springform pan with olive oil cooking spray and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs

heat the oil in a large skillet, cook onions, stirring about 5 min until softened

stir in greens and garlic and cook until greens are wilted

while greens are cooking, combine ricotta, egg, salt pepper, and remaining breadcrumbs in a bowl, stir in the onion/greens mixture, then spoon into the prepared pan

bake until puffed and golden - about 45 minutes

It will puff up, then sink as it cools.

Served this with a Corn Salad from an Ina Garten recipe

 http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/fresh-corn-salad-recipe/index.html

 I used purple and green basil.

Spinach & Sun Dried Tomato Fritatta

There are so many delicious things you can do with fresh spinach. This was a quick supper with eggs, kind of a fritatta. I used one bunch of spinach from the CSA box.

Wash the spinach well, especially if it just came from the farm market or the CSA box and still has dirt and sand clinging to it.. I usually put it in a big bowl of water, push it around gently, lift it out of the water into a collander, dump the water (and the sand and dirt) - or use it to water the plants, then repeat that process two more times or until there is no more dirt in the bottom of the bowl when I remove the spinach.

Chop the spinach bu piling up the leaves, slicing them into strips one way and then slicing the other way to cup those strips into pieces.

I made this a few weeks ago and used sun dried tomatoes - but if I make it now, I would use fresh tomatoes -mmm - makes my mouth water just thinking about fresh Jersey tomatoes...
For this fritatta, I chopped about 1/3 cup of sun dried tomatoes.

Grated about 1/2 cup Parmesean cheese

Sauteed one chopped yellow onion in 1 tsp olive oil

I beat 6 eggs with a little soy milk, then poured them into the ovenproof saute pan

I cooked the fritatta on top of the stove until it was almost set, then sprinkled the mozerella and Parmesean cheese on top and popped it into a 400 degree oven just until the top browned

Spinach & Ricotta Pizza

Another use for the spinach in one of our first few CSA boxes of the year. Bought the whole dough to make the crust at Trader Joe's.

Washed and chopped the spinach...

Diced a few sun dried tomatoes...

Grated some Parmesean...

Sauteed an onion in a little olive oil, then added the spinach and cooked it just till it wilted and was still bright green

Threw some dollops of Ricotta cheese on the crust, sprinkled on the tomatoes and a few chopped Calamat olives, then the spinach and onion mix, then the Parmesean. Baked it at 450 for 5-6 minutes.