Wow, nice new toys, Laurel! You sure scored with Santa! What did you do? Leave him some of Heather's Brown Sugar Banana Bread with a mug of Soy Milk?
Re: the spinach in the microwave. Maybe if you rinse it & then put it in a zip lock with an air gap? I agree re: the produce bags being to thin/untrustworthy. Stovetop wilting is really speedy, too. You're ginger/cinnamon pesto sounds positively scrumptuous. I'm addicted to an organic dijon with cinnamon in it. Maybe a twist of dijon?
Here's a link for the Wellness dressings. Some of them are lowfat. Others have 7 or 8 grams, which I personally experience as RISKY in a meal. www.wellnessdressing.com/
I LOVE the POM-BERRY the best, so far. I'm going to try the BALSALMIC-FIG, next. Both are fabulous splashed on greens/spinach!!! I also really like the RAVIN' RASPBERRY dressing which has 1g of fat/tbsp.
Another quick dressing flavour-fix I love is NEWMAN'S OWN LOWFAT SESAME THAI dressing. It has 1.5g of fat/2 tbsp. so quite safe! I bet it would be delicious with tofu & veggies, rice, etc. It's great with spinach, too!
So, about you mentioning that your new breadmachine is your new boyfriend...does that mean Andrew vanished???