Spinach

For those who can each spinach raw, I bow to you.  I hate the leafy stuff, unless it's jazzed up with something sweet or fattening.  For example, spinach salad with strawberries and candied pecans -- Yum.  I've tried and tried to eat it on it's own, but just can't.  However, I am good at hiding it (but again, in something fattening or sweet).

Pesto.  Take your basic Pesto and add spinach.  Add a little melted butter and warm heavy cream (the fattening part) and you've got this...

Add some Cavetappi Pasta noodles, and you can make it even better...

And just when you think it can't get any better, you add quartered cherry tomatoes and some more parmesan cheese...

And it tastes so yummy -- so good -- that you'll stop and ask yourself "there's spinach in here?"  Yes.  Yes there is.  Because it's fattening, you'll never know.