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I got a request for some appetizer recipes last week and so I thought I'd make one and post it today. I was deciding between one of two recipes to do...both were spreads and both had goats cheese. How did I pick? Well, it all began last night when we went to Baraka Pita Bakery on Main street for supper. If you have never been to this place you must go. Here are the details. They have homemade lebanese food that is SO good. I ordered the Chicken Shawarma (a pita filled with chicken, garlic sauce, vegetables, and pickled turnips. Zach and Mom shared a few different things including a spinach pita pie (garlic-y, lemony spinach on a pita), which I had a bite of. It was so yummy that after eating my whole shawarma I went and ordered a spinach pita pie! This appetizer is similar to that pita pie in that it has spinach, lemon and garlic and I ate it on pita chips. It is a recipe I found while perusing my mom's old recipe book. And it satisfied my lemony spinach craving just as much as that pita pie last night!

Give this recipe a try and let me know how it goes!

The flavors in this spread are very Spring-y...but sometimes you've just got to follow what your mouth is craving, and for me this week it is anything acidic (you don't even

want to know how many pickled carrots I've eaten this week!)

Spinach and Lemon Spread with Pita Chips

8 oz goat cheese, room temperature

6 tbsp crumbled feta

1 garlic clove, chopped

1 tsp lemon zest

2 tsp fresh mint, chopped

Salt and Pepper

1 10-oz pkg frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed to drain off that liquid

In a food processor puree the two cheese, garlic clove, lemon zest and mint. Add the spinach along with a few pinches of salt and grinds of pepper. Puree to combined. TASTE and make sure it's yummy, if you need add more salt, pepper or lemon.

You can serve this on any kind of bread, I used pitas that I bought at Baraka (yes, go!). I brushed the lightly with olive oil, sprinkled them with some salt, cut them into triangles and baked them for about 5 minutes in a 350F oven so that they were "chippy".

Enjoy!