Spinach Pasta Dip

Let's get started on this wonderful appetizer that is fit for a quick snack or for company.  The spinach will surely bring a smile to your face and more importantly to your heart. And our main focus is our body, anything that has happened this week or even the past 10 minutes let it all go and let your heart rest in the now.  If we your mind wonders a few times, remain focused on your breathing, what you take in and what is let out, the pause in between and the start of a new breath.  This will open the door to inner body awareness which is the goal when we enter the temple, the kitchen.  Today we will begin with inspiring words of Gangaji.  Let her words be a healing process that will guide you home.  Soften your body as you enter the stillness of your heart.  Drawing the attention from thinking to feeling and from doing to being.

Spinach Pasta Dip

• 1/2 cup orecchiette pasta
• 1/4 cup of sour cream
• 1/8 tbsp garlic powder
• 1/8 cup parmesan cheese
• pinch of salt (for taste)
• 1 teaspoon black ground pepper
• 1 1/2 cup leaf spinach
• 2 tbspn red bell pepper
• 1 tabspn basil
• 2 tbspn cream cheese
• 1 jalapeno (save the seeds)

1) Bring small pan of water to a boil adding the orecchiette and jalapeno slices when boiling begins. Drain and save 1/4 cup of water. Preheat oven to 325.

2) add sour cream, cream cheese, garlic powder, salt and pepper together, add spinach second and basil and jalapeno seeds (1/2 teaspoon approximately)

3) Once combined, stir in water and pasta into mix.  Place on baking sheet and put in oven for 10 minutes.

Take out and serve with crackers or chips!