Today is Pi Day, and it's time to make a different spinach pie, one that is one of my son's favorite dishes.
Pi Day, March 14, is a day to celebrate mathematics. In the American method of day numbering, today is 3-14: March 14. Or, the first three digits of the mathematical value "Pi".
It also would have been Albert Einstein's birthday.
Pi Day honors the number representing the radio
of the circumference of a circle to its radius. Pi is an infinite
number - it goes on indefinitely, but, not only that, it is a non
repeating decimal. No pattern to Pi has ever been found. This website shows Pi computed to 100,000. digits.
To several decimal points: 3.14159265358979323846....
Now, about that spinach pie. Or, as we will call it today, Spinach Pi.
Years ago, we lived for several years in rural Northwest Arkansas. We had gotten into some wild foods, including lambs quarters, and wanted to see if we could make a "spinach" pie out of these nutritious wild greens a pen pal told me about. But there were no filo leaves to be found anywhere local.
But we could find egg roll wrappers, and that's what we ended up using.
We haven't eaten wild greens in years, but the recipe remains. Our son grew up on this spinach pie (OK, technically, not a pie) and, as I mentioned, it is one of his favorites.
This makes one eight inch square cake pan's worth. Yes, a true Pie for Pi Day should be round but...well, this is our tradition. You should also be able to make this in a pie pan. One other note, this is so simple a child who enjoys cooking could help with this.
Ingredients
...since I baring passed math in school, pi day just doesn't register with me.
ReplyDeleteI thought of buying spinach the other day.
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Interesting recipe. I did not celebrate pi day. I thought about it, but I got busy with work and did not get around to it.
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