Crustless Spinach And Feta Pies With Tomato Salad

• Spinach Pies
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 10 ounces frozen spinach, thawed
• 4 scallions, thinly sliced
• 3 large eggs
• 3/4 cup half-and-half
• 1 tablespoon plain breadcrumbs
• 2 teaspoons crumbled dried mint
• 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
• fresh ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
• 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
• Tomato Salad
• 12 ounces mixed small tomatoes, cut in halves (yellow and red)
• 2 -3 pepperoncini peppers, stemmed and chopped
• 2 tablespoons pitted kalamata olives, coarsely chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• kosher salt, to taste
• fresh ground black pepper, to taste

1. Tomato Salad:
2. Toss the tomatoes together with the pepperoncini and olives in a salad bowl. Add the olive oil, lemon juice, oregano salt and black pepper to taste. Toss again.
3. Spinach Pies:
4. Put a rack in the center of your oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
5. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
6. Squeeze excess liquid out of spinach.
7. Add the spinach and scallions to the skillet and cook, stirring, until dry - about 4 to 5 minutes.
8. Transfer to a colander and press with the back of a spoon to get rid of the last bits of moisture.
9. Brush 4 6-oz. ramekins with some olive oil and put them on a baking sheet.
10. Put spinach mixture, eggs, half-and-half, bread crumbs, mint, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper and nutmeg into a food processor and pulse until the spinach is finely chopped. Remove blade and stir in the feta cheese.
11. Divide the mixture evenly between the 4 ramekins.
12. Bake until set around the edges but still a little bit soft in the center - about 20 minutes. Turn oven off, leaving the spinach pies inside to set. Keep them in the oven for another 5 minutes.
13. Run a knife around the edge of each pie and invert onto plates. Spoon some tomato salad around each and serve.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/crustless-spinach-and-feta-pies-with-tomato-salad-428354 (may not work)