Butterfly’s Flutterings

Yesterday we had a Christmas party potluck at work.  I’ve showed you the sign I made for it here.  We were all supposed to bring in a dish. I decided on a Seafood and Spinach stuffed pastry which I talked about in my last post. so here is the hit recipe. I’m sure someone else has already come up with it before, but it was completely new to me soo…

What you will need.

Crab Meat:    (Fresh, Canned, or imitation. ) I used about six ounces. And yes I did return it for the stuff in date. ;P

Shrimp:     I  used a precooked frozen bag.

Spinach: 3 16oz packages.   I used a frozen spinach for easiness. If you really want to go fancy I think fresh would be yummy too. But It should be cooked.

Cream Cheese.:    I used two regular sized boxes.

Ingredients

Pastry Shells: I used a frozen pre baked box of Athens Mini Fillo Shells.

Shells

Steps:

1. Thaw out spinach. Just run it under some hot water and break apart. Then let all the water drain out through a strainer.

2. While spinach is draining. Peel tails of the Shrimpies if there are some. Cut as much as you think you would like to use.

Tail less Shrimpies

3. Prepare your Crab if you use it. Make sure that is in tiny pieces as well.

4. Put all ingredients together in a bowel. (except the shells of course. )

Pre mixed

Mix it all together. I made two separate bowels. One with crab and shrimp and one without the crab.

5. After mixing squish it into the shells. I saved some of the little shrimpies with tails still on to put on top of the ones with just shrimp. That way people will know they are different.

All done!

Then you have a tasty little appetizer!!. Every one at the party loved them. There were hardly any that I could get to.