@Art Barr
Low key dropping gems because I never knew about drying it out in a napkin before reheating. As much as I love greens the soggy texture used to put me off so I could only eat them freshly made/ steamed.
I'm guna substitute Garlic Salt/Tiger Salt/Slap Yo Mama
For some Ranch Salt, Sriracha and Honey n see how it goes.
My mum cooks greens with bay
too I haven't tried it yet I just thought she was extra.
To reheat veggies like spinach or greens.
For greens.
if you reheat greens in the microwave. You need to wet a napkin and place it over the plate. Like if you reheated a hamburger from mickie d's.
If you do not like that drain. Which bothers me too. You can try to drain it off before it goes in the microwave. Greens retain water more than spinach for some reason. So drainage on greens is going to still occur .
so the napkin will soak up the added drainage and still keep it from drying out in a microwave reheat.
Greens sometimes take a minute plus with a wet napkin.
Greens take a bit more time to heat than spinach. While still being quick.
when reheating spinach.
spinach needs a wet napkin and forty five seconds To only barely a minute.
Yet it needs the wet napkin to keep it from drying out and usually will not have drainage.
greens retain drainage and seems to ooze drainage when hot. Spinach seems to dry out and needs the wet napkin to provide moisture in microwave reheating.
That is all in the weird water sport science of using rhe microwave to reheat any food. Back to its glory.
as far as tips when cooking spinach from scratch.
I urge you to steal tips for greens from your female relatives. As I will admit. My greens need a female relative touch to be better. Yet they will not lemme know.
what they do on their recipe in my fam. So I found I can reheat their greens with honey, Sriracha, and syrup. In the microwave using the napkin trick.
Now as far as cooking spinach tho. I got them beat on that.
their spinach sucks.
so they steal my spinach tips and will not trade their green recipes.
as far as
For spinach..
that bay leaf is really the secret.
Garlic
Bay leaf
Celery salt makes it taste good.
Sriracha
just alone.
As you boil it down.
On high flame.
gives it good added taste.
You gotta watch it cause spinach has a mind of its own.
Someday it feels like it takes forever on high.
Then someday it just cooks down super fast.
Watch spinach.
It cooks faster than greens and takes less seasonings than greens to penetrate through.
once your water is real low.
you can add the powdered honey, sweet and sour and a small bit of syrup.
cooked on low to finish it off.
Watch this on low as sauces cook fast on low.
this should Give it a sweet taste.
to take off that iron taste spinach has.
Garlic salt and those other salts.
for some reason make it salty and blehh tasting.
I have cut out adding salt and garlic salt in my veggies.
Only salt mix that seems to work well in veggies is celery salt.
I cook from the soul.
So I do not measure my seasonings.
Remember :
Ranch powder goes on after the dish is made.
If you get adventurous.
if you try it on spinach.
use it lightly.
tip;
Ranch in the pot while it is boiling down or cooking in any dish prep.
does not seem to cut through.
So add Ranch on.
aFter the dish is made on your plate. If you wanna try.
I do not prep season and cook with the Ranch powder.
I apply Ranch powder and lemon peel on my fried chicken. Or fried fish. After I finish frying it.
Lemon peel and Ranch just do not cut through well if you prep season with it.
not sure why at all.
Lemon peel does not taste appealing to me on spinach or veggies. Yet people are adventurous with food way more than me. So if you think it is fye. Be my guest and hook it up.
If it is Supa fye. Report back to us and tell us to try it.
Art Barr