Lettuce -How Do I Wash Thee?
Have I mentioned before my love/hate relationship with lettuce?
I love it. It’s so fresh and adds so much to a sandwich, or salad.
I’ve been trying to grow it forever.
I’ve discovered I’m not patient enough and I usually start cutting and picking leaves long before the stuff has matured.
This year I bought a lettuce bag and planted tons of little tiny lettuce seeds.
As I mentioned before I’m impatient and I got my nose out of joint because they didn’t sprout soon enough for me.
So now I have tons of lettcue.
I wanted to plant a succession of lettuce crops but that means planting thinly which I did not.
My other pet peeve is washing lettuce.
This is my method…
- Spray lettuce before cutting.
- Soak a few minutes in a cold water bath in the sink
- Drain the water and soak again.
- Drain the water and soak again
- Spray leaves as I’m pulling out to spin (my mother finally gave me back our lettuce spinner)
On my drain yesterday an earwig went down the drain…
WHAT?!
I had washed the mess THREE times!
I still love lettuce and we ait it anyway.
BTW I’ve had the stuff from the grocery store hatch larvae in my fridge before sssshhhhuuudddderrrrr!!!! It was organic
By the way this week’s e-newsletter from Molly Green was about lettuce. Recipes and all. If you don’t subscribe you should. It’s free for the weekly newsletter and you get nice tips and some free resources.
How do you wash your lettuce?
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July 13th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Ketutar says:LOL I usually don’t. I have never seen any bugs in my lettuce, not the lettuce I grow myself nor the lettuce I buy from the store. Perhaps I’m lucky, or then I have eaten a lot of bugs not knowing they are there. I might wash it quickly with running water if it’s dusty or grimy, and then spin.