Option 3:Kale will probably last the longest of other salad greens like lettuce or arugula and can keep sometimes up to two weeks. If you know you have a busier week ahead, rinse, strip the leaves of their large stems and cut the leaves up for easier use. Then just toss them into a...
salad greens are not considered to be a superfood (high in nutritional value) by most, but they actually are. Darker greens typically contain more vitamins, minerals and other nutrients than lighter lettuce varieties.
Winter purslane:An attractive winter salad also known as claytonia or miner’s lettuce. Oriental vegetables:There are numerous ways of using these, from adding to salads, stews and soup, for stir-fries and as a lightly steamed vegetable. They include Chinese mustard greens, chopsuey greens, Japa...
What to Do with All the Sad (But Precious) Produce in Your Fridge The best time to extend the life of salad greens is as soon as you return from your grocery run (or receive your delivery). First, open the container the greens came in and sort through them. Any leaf that has starte...
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Until I learned I was, in fact, doing the impossible: I was using my salad spinner wrong. Here’s how I—and, no offense, but probably you, too—thought a salad spinner was supposed to be used: Wash lettuces under cold, running water. Pile the wet greens into a salad spinner. ...
How do you cook peas? Peas are cooked in the least possible amount of water and in just the time for them to become just tender. The French cook peas in the water it takes to moisten lettuce leaves. Line a saucepan with damp greens and a few pea pods, pour in the shelled peas, ...
Using boatloads of sugar to preserve fresh produce Now you do have to be a little bit careful when you’re preserving food– sometimes you just *can’t* be a rebel with certain things if it impacts the safety of the recipe. (Check out my post all about canning safety HERE.) However,...
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I used to, too. Now I’m a daily salad eater, and you can be, too! With this simple trick, enjoy a fresh salad as quickly as you can take the lid off—healthy fast food that’s almost as easy as opening a bag of chips. This “salad in a jar” isn’t a traditional layered ...