Boston Organics delivery

[magid]

With the local farm season over, I've switched to an every other week large box, two-thirds vegetables. I'm not sure whether this is the right balance; I might be better off with a smaller box every week. I'll see how it goes.

• two paper bags of crimini mushrooms (half a pound total?)*
  
• two bunches of spinach
  
• two medium zucchinis
  
• four five potatoes
  
• three sweet potatoes
  
• two pears
  
• three oranges
  
• a medium eggplant
  
• two large artichokes
  
• eight apples*
  
• ten bananas

* local (read: New England) produce

Comments

[queue.livejournal.com]

That seems like a bit less than two-thirds vegetables.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes.... though more than half veggies.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you wash your vegetables for bugs in the koser manner?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Um, I just wash them off?

In Israel I noticed a much bigger preoccupation with bugs than in the US; I assumed it was due to less pesticide use. There were classes that suggested extreme measures that got me very freaked out, until the erev Shabbat close to candlelighting when I was about to make a stir fry with broccoli and realized I wasn't sure what to do about bugs. I made the friend I was cooking with call his rav (it was his apartment), and what he was told was "Look at it. If you see bugs, don't eat it." Which has served me well since. I make sure there aren't bugs I can see on it, but I don't use extremely bright lights or magnifying glasses for the hunt. Neither do I avoid particular vegetables for the possibility that there are bugs.

And when I got back to the States, there seemed to be a much greater preoccupation with bugs than before, following the swing towards greater strictness in a lot of areas, especially involving food.

Which is a long way of saying, I wash things off, look them over, and then eat them if there aren't visible bugs.