Tuesday

[magid]

Why aren't there white organic eggs?

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done

• notarized, witnessed, signed, photocopied, and sent in the paperwork for the mortgage reconfiguration
  
• faxed in the NDA for [special project] Thursday at the National Braille Press *bounce of excitement*
  
• bought some very tiny new red and white potatoes at the farmer's market

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dinner

• scrambled eggs with new onions and their greens, plus mozzarella
  
• roasted summer squash and onions
  
• pickles
  
• green salad (red leaf, green leaf, romaine, radicchio, basil, tomato, hearts of palm, boiled potatoes, and a apricot-ginger mustard vinaigrette)
  
• fruit pie (plum, kiwi, apple, mango)

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Today's weather would've been much better for helping with a move than yesterday's.

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the place that generated eggs didn't check them? There's definitely variation in quality of checking. Blood spots are more likely in the brown ones, but I've had white ones that had blood as well. I'm not sure I'm willing to pay Wild Harvest brand prices for eggs, even if they're white and organic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's probably so, that the small, "natural" operation didn't check them.

I've had a very low incidence of blood with plain, white, supermarket eggs. I've also found that when I do find blood even in those, more often than would be random there are multiple such eggs in the same dozen.

This is very interesting to think about now with the perspective of the pre-screening. Thank you.

We used to feed the unkosher eggs to the cat, so as not to waste and to give a treat. The cat would, therefore, come running at the sound of any eggs being cracked.

I somehow cannot recall, however, how we would handle the glass after it contained the offensive egg, and am always at a loss as to what to do now. Can't use my sponge on it, in my sink, etc., or I treif up everything. Last time, after dumping the egg in the toilet, I washed the glass out in the bathroom with hot water and bathroom soap after dumping the egg in the toilet, then washed it in the kitchen as normal. What do you do?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'd never thought about doing anything other than throwing the eggs away. And since the blood spots are usually on the yolk, which is surrounded by the white, I haven't worried that the measuring cup (the clear kind, obviously) would be traifed. I put the egg in the trash, then rinse out the cup thoroughly.

Side note: I took a class at Nishmat on kashrut (years ago, now), and was surprised to learn that if it's a distinct blood spot, then one is permitted to remove just the blood spot (and a bit around it), and the rest of the egg is permissible. Which is probably also a factor in why I'm not so concerned with the cup and the sink and such.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the cat didn't keep kosher, and eggs were good for him. He enjoyed them.

That's interesting, the tidbit about removing the bloodied area only.

[magid.livejournal.com]

*nod* about the cat. I've barely had pets, so I tend not to pay attention to using food for non-people.

I've never actually taken just a part of the egg out, btw; it seems more trouble than its worth, to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I would not have thought of using the egg for non-people except for having grown up with the experience. We didn't feed much of any other humans' food to the cat. (Maybe people with dogs are more used to doing so.) It was only the egg. Makes cats' coats nice and shiny.

In recent years, however, I've learned of other foods that are good for cats, including canned pumpkin and brewer's yeast.

One Pesach we fed meat (cow) to the fish. That was weird.

Normal fish food -- the flakes -- has chametz, so on Pesach we would use dried worms.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I remember friends having to figure out what to feed their cat for Pesach, and learning that it's not just because it's cheaper that they would get cat food rather than people food the rest of the year for it. (Er, that's grammatically ungraceful. Sorry about that.)

Pumpkin? Cool. Due to the beta-carotenes?
(Brewer's yeast I've never used, so it doesn't feel as useful. Though perhaps I should figure out what to do with it, since I keep hearing it's so healthy.)

[(Anonymous)]

I like it that you are concerned about grammar!

Was it that your friends were trying to figure out what to feed their cat for Pesach not to the extent of researching which cat foods would be chametz-free, but rather they were planning on feeding the cat kosher l'Pesach people food and trying to make sure it was well-balanced for a cat's diet?

The cat food (and fish food) situation is an example I use when trying to explain why something can be kosher l'Pesach but not kosher.

Pumpkin I believe has to do with digestion. I forget the purpose of the brewer's yeast. I think garlic might be another one, but I might be misremembering.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I have to be concerned with grammar; it's my profession :-).

I think they hadn't realized at the time that there might be cat food that was kosher l'Pesach, and assumed they'd be feeding their cat cans of tuna (etc.). I will mention that these friends have been known to be much more strict than halacha requires in a number of instances, "just to be on the safe side." (This is not where I am...)

You're getting me in the mood to eat pumpkin, and they're totally not in season yet!