Loaded toast with creamed spinach and bacon, and cheese
Holiday parties and get-togethers inevitably leave us with leftovers. If bread is among the leftovers you have and you're wondering how to make it palatable and attractive, this recipe is a good place to start. It is perfectly tweakable. If, instead of bacon, you have leftover ham, use it. If your cheese isn't mozzarella, so what? Use whatever you have.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- ½ cup bacon thinly sliced
- ⅓ cup onion chopped
- 1 cup blanched spinach squeezed and roughly chopped
- 3 to 4 tablespoons cream
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 4 slices bread
- ¾ cup mozzarella (or whatever cheese you have) shredded
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Heat the butter in a frying pan, add the bacon and cook until the edges are lightly browned.
- Add the chopped onion and continue cooking until the onion bits are translucent.
- Throw in the spinach. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir and cook for about a minute.
- Pour in the cream. Cook, stirring, just until the cream is bubbly.
- Arrange the bread slices on a tray and toast in the hot oven for about four minutes.
- Take the bread out of the oven. Spread the bacon-spinach mixture on each slice of bread. Top with shredded cheese.
- Return the tray back into the oven and toast the bread just until the mozzarella melts.
- You may garnish the creamed bacon and spinach toast with snipped parsley before serving.