Spinach

Spinach is one of those green vegetables we learn to love as we get older. Persuading kids to eat it takes Popeye, Bluto and Olive Oyl. If you have a never fail kids recipe for this great source of vitamins and iron, I'd love to see it.

• Baked Spinach
  
  You must use fresh spinach leaves for this dish which makes a tasty light meal on its own or a quick and easy vegetable with fish or meat. The whole thing is cooked in the oven and there is no need to toast the pine nuts
• Spinach with bacon
  
  A remarkable number of green-leaved vegetables work very well with bacon. Here we put together baby spinach leaves, avocado and back bacon to produce a tasty and refreshing starter
• Spinach with Cardamom
  
  In this dish fresh spinach is spiked up with a number of Asian spices, the main one being cardamom seeds, which are inside every pod but rarely see the light of day in Western kitchens
• Spinach and Salmon Dip
  
  The secret of a spinach dip such as this is to squeeze all the water out of the spinach, which is easily done by twisting it in the corner of a tea towel