Boston Organics delivery

[magid]

Large box, still all veggies (and happily unfrozen, despite getting home later than usual).

• two bunches of spinach
  
• two bunches of green chard
  
• a head of cauliflower
  
• two stalks of broccoli
  
• a large beet (edit a golden beet!)
  
• twelve medium red-skinned potatoes
  
• a bag (three pounds) of onions
  
• a bag (a third of a pound?) of crimini mushrooms
  
• a medium eggplant

Reminder to self for Shabbat menu planning: I still have left from last week a head of cabbage, two yams, and the pint of cherry tomatoes.

Comments

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, how do you check all of these organic veggies for bugs? We don't even buy non-organic spinach because it's crawling with bugs around here.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I wash it and look for bugs. If I don't see them, they aren't there.
[In other words, I likely am not careful enough by some standards.]

(I was panicked in Israel one time about checking broccoli. The friend I was cooking with called his rabbi (it was his kitchen), and was told "Look at it. If there are bugs, don't eat it." Which he had to repeat a couple of times until I could calm down enough to look at broccoli without stress.)

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

I won't post the checking instructions pamphlet I have, then. Suffice it to say they are much more involved than that.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I appreciate it. I assume there's either salt water or vinegar involved, and possibly bright lights.

(If I were in a community where everyone but me took lots of time to check fresh vegetables and grains, I'd likely be, too.)