First off, I have to thank my partner, Nathan, for this great photo. Nathan is a fantastic food photographer and food stylist. (He is truly a man of many talents.) I often invite him over to eat pulse recipes and then he takes photos for me. I don’t normally make this dish with a red tortilla, but we thought it would add some valuable contrast instead of creating an all-white dish. Also, I don’t generally add red pepper flakes, but Nathan really likes them. We bought these pepper flakes at Silk Road Spices on Whyte. I’m a little bit in love with this place. You can get all kinds of interesting spices there. And it’s in my hood. (There are also two locations in Calgary)

The second thing is, I don’t actually follow this recipe. I use it more as a general guideline. I got this recipe from the Weight Watchers website years ago. (I’m generally on the look out for low fat recipes).

Ingredients
1 medium shallot, minced (I never do this)
1 medium garlic clove, minced (I always add more)
10 oz chopped spinach (The recipe says to use frozen spinach. Does anyone actually buy frozen spinach??)
¼ cup feta cheese, crumbled
½ cup grated Parmesan chese
2 tbsp fat free dairy creamer
¼ cup cannellini beans, rinsed, drained and mashed
¼ teaspoon black pepper
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
4 tortillas
(You also need cooking spray)

Coat a skillet with cooking spray. Add garlic and shallot, if using, and saute for one minute. Stir in spinach and cook. Remove from heat.

Add feta and Parmesan cheese, half and half, beans, pepper and lemon juice. Mix well.

Spread ½ cup spinach mixture on half of each tortilla. Fold in half to enclose filling.

Recoat skillet with cooking spray. Arrange folded tortilla in skillet. Brown over medium heat, about 2 to 3 minutes per side. Remove and repeat.

Cut each tortilla into bits. This recipe makes about 4 tortillas and keeps in the fridge. If I make it for one night for myself, I usually end up eating it for a few more meals.

Here’s how I deviate from the recipe- I generally just throw in a whole can of beans. What am I going to do with ¾ of a can of beans? Then I will add more spinach too. I generally don’t end up adding too much more cheese.

So my main strategy is to just add more beans and balance the whole thing out.

I hope you’re doing well. I’m having a great time tweeting over at the @PeopleofCanada rotational twitter account, and I’m excited about the Oscars this weekend.