arugula rugelach

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arugula rugelach, originally uploaded by qwrrty.

Last weekend omegabeth and I attended dervishspin's "Snooty Foods" party. Challenged to come up with the snootiest, snobbiest, elitest, most exclusivest snotty food we could imagine, we invented arugula rugelach: arugula (and a little spinach), blended into a pesto with garlic, olive oil, walnuts and asiago cheese, and rolled up in little wedges of rugelach pastry made according to the King Arthur cookbook recipe.

Oh my heavens these things were good. A professional chef in attendance pronounced them the best dish he'd had in a long time, and begged us for the recipe. They disappeared faster than most everything else on the table.

A special shout-out goes to coraline for coming up with the name and inspiring me to actually try to make these work!

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We were pleasantly surprised by just how well the filling worked -- Beth was skeptical. I pointed out that we could make it with any combination of spinach and arugula and basil, and technically we really only needed a token amount of arugula to justify using the name. But the sharp flavor of the arugula really made it work as a substitute for basil.