Shells Florentine

[dazie]

I was in my 20s before I found out that this version of shells florentine isn't nearly the same as the versions that you get in restaurants.  Those are usually huge pasta shells stuffed with ricotta and spinach.  Mine's a little more, um, hot-dish-esque.

I also lost the original recipe, so I just guess at amounts, but it works out.

Mom's Shells Florentine

1 bag large pasta shells (not the ginormous ones you stuff,  get the littler ones in bags)
1 family sized can of cream of mushroom soup
about 8 ounces of frozen chopped spinach, thawed
some ground nutmeg
some sour cream

Cook the pasta according to the package directions.

While that's going,  mix the soup, spinach and nutmeg in a different pot and heat it up til it's hot but not boiling.  If you want, you can add some milk to make it a little thinner.

After the sauce is hot, add two or three big spoonfuls of sour cream and mix it in.

Dish the pasta into bowls and pour the sauce over top.

I like to eat mine just this side of too hot to eat, with lots of fresh cracked black pepper and salt.

[Gamplayerx]

Spinach good.

[Alice]

Spinach good.

You're like the culinary version of eo000.

[ReBurn]

Spinach good.

You're like the culinary version of eo000.

Just more cuddly.