Quick and Easy Creamed Bacon Spinach

Ingredients

• 6 slices bacon cut into 1 inch pieces
• 2.7 tablespoons butter 
• 0.5 cup flour all-purpose
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 0.3 teaspoon ground pepper black
• 0.5 cup half-and-half 
• 2.5 cups milk 
• 1.5 teaspoons salt 
• 30 ounce spinach - frozen dry thawed drained chopped

Equipment

• frying pan
• whisk

Directions

1. Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, bacon, and garlic until bacon is crisp, 5 to 7 minutes.
2. Whisk flour, salt, and black pepper into onion mixture until blended and the flour and drippings form a paste, 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Slowly whisk milk into onion mixture. Bring to a boil, continuously whisking, until sauce is thick and creamy, 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Stir spinach and half-and-half into sauce; cook until spinach is heated through, 4 to 6 minutes.