Feta Cheese and Spinach Orzo Pasta

OK, so there's no feta cheese in this photo.

  I tried this recipe the first time using the

feta cheese, and we

  thought the feta cheese was a bit too

sharp/strong.  On the second try

I used fresh grated Parmesan/Romano cheese

instead of the feta and we preferred the Parmesan.

 

Here's the original recipe (below).

Treasure Cave Feta Cheese

and Spinach Orzo Pasta

1 cup orzo pasta

1/2 tsp. minced garlic

2 tbsp. olive oil

10 ounce frozen chopped spinach,

thawed and drained. (used 16 oz. pkg.)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 package of Treasure Cave

 Crumbled Feta Cheese (use 4 ounces)

dash of fresh ground pepper

Directions

Cook pasta in boiling water until tender,

about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large frying pan,

saute garlic in olive oil;

add spinach and stir until hot.

Drain pasta and stir into spinach mixture.

Stir in salt and pepper, then gently fold

Feta cheese into mixture.  Serves 4

Now, back to  ~ feta cheese.

In Costco they were passing out samples

of feta cheese.  Delicious of course.

Instead of putting it on a cracker as expected,

they were combining it with a half a cherry tomato.

Feta cheese plus tomato = Yum!

So, at home I've chopped up some

fresh (not from the garden yet)

tomatoes,  and  added some crumbled feta cheese

on top.  Seasoned with salt and pepper. It was so good.

Now I need to find more feta recipes that

we like, because I have a

Costco size container (different brand)

of Feta cheese to use,

 and there's  just the two of us. 

I know I said I'd be on a blog break for the rest of the  week,

but I had some time this evening.  I thought this would be a

quick post to put up.  Well ~~

  This blogging takes way more time than

you expect it to ~~ right?