Found: several! greens pies without cheese!

[walkitout]

Updated:

Let's ignore, for the moment, that southern thing that involves broccoli and cornbread. Because even I am not prepared to perpetrate that (altho I might, someday).

http://souvlakiforthesoul.com/kohlrabi-and-greens-pie

http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekbreadspitas/r/spanakopita1.htm

According to this link, spanikopita in its traditional form doesn't include eggs or cheese!

Spanak-o-pita = spinach + pie.
Spanak-o-rizo = spinach + rice.

http://greekfood.about.com/od/maindishes/r/spanakorizo2.htm

One can only wonder how many more of these things there are.

Here is the previous post, when I was looking for a reasonable way to substitute around the cheese. I had previously eaten spinach pie without cheese, and I had run across a mention that the Lenten version of the pie was the one with the cheese, but normally it did not have cheese (or eggs, for that matter).

http://medcookingalaska.blogspot.com/2007/10/recipe-plasto-greens-and-cornbread.html

I _love_ this idea: cornbread and greens go together tremendously well. Hmmm.

ETA:

I'm thinking a non-traditional version of the Turkish/Azerbaijani (sp?) spinach-with-eggs might be good.

http://www.azcookbook.com/spinach-with-eggs-ispanaq-chighirtmasi/

Usually, the eggs sit on top, sort of like they sit on top of hash. But this recipe has them mixed in more.

ETAYA: Okay, I looked at the Vegan with a Vengeance Spanakopita, and I'm really unimpressed -- that is a _lot_ of tofu, and I'm no fan of nutritional yeast. Also, I'm not vegan, so I don't need it.

That said, she does use walnuts, which R. proposed (I was thinking pine nuts). If there's a need for umami, I'd go with finely chopped and thoroughly cooked down mushrooms over nutritional yeast. Egg shows up in enough versions of Spanakopita that I don't fee bad using that. I'll see if I can put something together that passes both R.'s and my plausibility tests and add spinach to the shopping list for today.

ETA still more:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Spinach-Cornbread-112844

Wow. Now bad, wow, just, wow.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a passage in a 19th-century American children's book, _Mr. Rutherford's Children_: "But in trimming the orange dress Miss Mantilla's fancy took a turn, and so did the green braid—many a one; till Chryssa's little frock looked much more fanciful and complicated than herself, and seemed almost like a uniform in the service of that gay Dahlia, 'the King of the Yellows.' One of the ladies in the hotel said it looked like spinach and eggs—but what if it did ? Chryssa could make out nothing against it on that score ; and though the dark red dress was her favourite, she thought the orange frock very pretty and still more wonderful."

All the contemporary recipes I can find say that "spinach and eggs" means poached eggs on a bed of spinach, but everything I find saying that something else looks like spinach and eggs suggests them mixed together in a streaky fashion.