SPAGHETTI (OH YES WE LOVE SPAGHETTI) WITH CHEESE SAUCE AND SPINACH

On Sunday afternoon, we, once again, had some cravings for cheese.

I don´t know if it happens to you as well but it happens to us all the time.

We DO eat an extraordinary amount of cheese but oh well,

it´s only because cheddar´s just too good to resist :)...

so we decided to cook super cheesy spaghetti with some more cheese on top 

(Hello, cheese lovers!)

Anyway, down to the recipe.

You´re going to need:

Spaghetti

Spinach – frozen, fresh...whatever

Cheese sauce – now you can either make your own one

(that is a wee bit time consuming and, to be honest, I don´t think we´ve tried...)

or buy one in ASDA, Tesco...

Our favourite one is ASDA´s 4 cheese sauce 

(at least I think it´s called 4 cheese sauce :)) 

or ASDA´s ricotta sauce with spinach

(if you´re using that one, you don´t need to add any more spinach...

unless you´re crazy about it or wanna become Popeye :))

Grated cheddar (loads of it, as per usual)

Salt, pepper, chilli flakes, garlic powder, possibly dried herbs (basil, oregano, thyme...)

Fresh basil

Olive oil

Another super simple recipe.

Cook the spaghetti until they´re “al dente”. 

In the meantime, chop a few leaves of fresh basil and prepare the spinach. 

Just cook it (make sure it stays nice and crunchy),then strain it and season it.

I, for some reason, really like spinach in combination with garlic

so I usually add a bit of salt and pepper and a reasonable amount of garlic powder 

(Chouchou never complained so I guess it is quite tasty :) {Chouchou loves garlic!!!}).

Heat up the cheese sauce (either in the microwave or in a pot).

Once your spaghetti are cooked, strain them and put them back into the pot.

Add the sauce and a bit of seasoning 

(chilli flakes that I love to put into almost everything as I´m crazy about food that´s got a wee bit of a spicy kick, pepper, you can add some sort of Italian dried herb mixture

if you wish as well, it´s not going to do any harm :))

and stir it all well. Place into plates and put some “garlicy” spinach on top. 

Then a fair bit of grated cheddar, chopped fresh basil and a spray of olive oil and voila, here we go!

(You can add olives as well, if you have some left in your fridge. 

Olives can only make things better!)

(: Enjoy :)