Girl Gone Mom

  I've turned into a modern-day Popeye in recent days in an effort to increase my iron intake. Lunch is usually a baby spinach salad, dinner sometimes a spinach and kale quiche. Somehow I thought that eating raw greens would produce the highest iron content and then read an article stating that cooked spinach was better in that regard. That was an exciting fact to learn because I needed to change it up a little. Originally I was going to make a lasagna, but found manicotti shells in the pantry and I thought it would make a nice change. I've always failed at making manicotti but I discovered the trick to all of my past failures. It's important to spoon your mixture into a zip-baggie, cut the tip and pipe it in order to get the perfect stuffed manicotti or shell. After all of ... read more