After two weeks of eating carbs upon carbs upon carbs, sausages galore, desserts everyday (sometimes twice) and food that had been salted about five times more than necessary, I’ve never been more happy to eat frozen spinach in my life.

Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are all gorgeous and amazing but (good) food definitely isn’t their thing.

Besides vegetables, I actually came home to a 95% completed new tile back-splash in my kitchen. We had bought the tiles before I left but Ulysses was as enthused about installing it as he was when I forced him to watch Love Actually with me the other week after discovering it on Netflix.

Read: not at all.

So I was totally shocked to walk into the house yesterday and see it almost done as an anniversary present.

The 5% that wasn’t done was scraping grout off about a two square foot space and caulking. That took 5 hours. FIVE. I was ready to give up at about hour two. I have no idea how he had the patience to do the entire thing. So while I complained like a baby, he finished the last 3 hours and I made fritters on top of chipped grout pieces everywhere and my kitchen gadgets scattered in about three different rooms.

That was fun.

After grabbing some new garlic sriracha mayo from the store and falling in love with its spicy flavor and creamy texture, I knew it needed a dipping companion to go with it.

That’s when these chicken spinach popped into my head.

The outside is baked to a crisp but the inside is packed with chicken, spinach and spicy mayo flavor. As much as it pains me to say this, these are seriously the perfect football food. If you’re into watching that crap, these buffalo chicken broccoli cheddar bites are fun too.

Although, I did watch Draft Day on the plane ride home and have to say I even semi-enjoyed it. These are the type of tragedies that happen when there’s no internet available on a 8+ hour flight.

Looking for more dip-worthy food like these chicken spinach fritters? Try these sweet potato goat cheese puffs or these sweet potato corn and cheddar fritters as well.