There has been a video floating around the internet of a delicious looking snack. It’s spinach and artichoke dip back inside a hollowed out loaf of French bread. It might sound like an okay treat, but it’s actually fabulous. So Roomie and I decided to grab the ingredients and make it happen. We had to approximate the amount of each ingredient and I will list what I think you should use.

Things you need:

Cream cheese, spinach, artichoke hearts, mozzarella, garlic powder, butter, parsley, and a loaf of French bread.

First you need to saute your spinach real fast. We just used a few handfuls of spinach leaves.

While your lovely roommate tends to the spinach, put your cream cheese in a large mixing bowl. It should be decently soft for mixing. Then add your cooked greens.

Add your mozzarella. If you’re fancy you can get fresh cheese. Or be like a grad student and buy the shredded kind like I did.

It’s best to work with a partner. So that while I was cutting up the artichoke hearts, Roomie could be gutting the bread. The bread also needed to be cut into sections to make it easier to stuff.

The instructions call for adding garlic powder to the mixture. We couldn’t tell how much was used and put in a tablespoon. I would venture that that was too much. 1-2 teaspoons should get the job done.

Then mix that sucker up!

Once the bread is stuffed, transfer your concoction to a cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil. You aren’t quite done yet. You need to mix your… marinade?

Melt some butter and add some garlic powder and parsley. Then go ahead and spread it on top of the bread.

Looking at these pictures is making my mouth water again! At this point, wrap up the loaf and bake it in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes.

Once that timer goes off, it’s go time! I wish I would learn that food that comes out of the oven is hot and needs time to cool down.

Here’s the breakdown of the amounts we used:

2-3 c cooked spinach

8 oz (1 package) cream cheese

1 c mozzarella cheese (but I would use more next time)

1 can artichoke hearts

1-2 tsp garlic powder

Go try it yourself! It’s even good the next day (I know, I tried it).