Creamed Spinach With Honey Glazed Pine Nuts - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 cup pine nuts
    1 tablespoon olive oil
    1 tablespoon honey
    1 tablespoon olive oil
    1 small onion, minced
    3 garlic cloves, minced
    1/4 cup butter
    1/4 cup flour
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/4 teaspoon black pepper
    1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    1 cup milk
    4 ounces cream cheese, cubed
    2 (10 ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
    1/3 cup asiago cheese, grated
Preparation
    In a small saute pan heat 1 tbsp of olive oil on MEDIUM, add pine nuts (be careful they burn quickly! Make sure you are constantly watching and stirring them). Toast lightly (about 1 minute) remove from heat and add 1 tbsp honey. Transfer to a small bowl and let pine nuts cool.
    Add 1 tbsp of olive oil to the small saute pan. Add onions and garlic. Fry until translucent (do not brown). Sit onions/garlic to the side to cool.
    On MEDIUM heat, add 1/4 cup butter to a large saucepan. Once butter has melted add the flour, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook for about 1 minute.
    Slowly add milk to butter/flour mixture, stirring constantly until you have a thick sauce. Add the cubed cream cheese and stir until melted.
    Add the onion/garlic mixture to the cream sauce.
    Add the 2 packages of well drained frozen chopped spinach to the cream sauce. Stir to combine and cook for approx 3-4 minutes on MEDIUM.
    Once spinach mixture is heated completely through, stir in Asiago cheese and remove from heat.
    Transfer creamed spinach to a serving dish.
    Spoon honey glazed pine nuts over the creamed spinach and serve immediately.

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