Bugs!

[Vian]

No, not eating bugs. I got some cauliflower from the farmers market and was about to cook it up last night, i found little grey aphids or something down in among the flowers in some areas. I was about to be grossed out and decide not to eat the cauliflower, but then realized something.

 

Having bugs on vegetables indicates what the vegetables don't have on them - pesticides and chemicals. 

 

So I used my sprayer to knock all the bugs off with hot water and cooked up the cauliflower and ate it!

[Tom Denham]

Good for you!

 

The other day I found a green inch worm on my fourth rinse of some kale and chard. I sometimes cook and eat after the third rinse. I began to wonder how many green inch worms I may have eaten already. Oh well.

 

NPR featured someone saying on the radio today that some kind of worm tastes like pistachios when roasted...

[Physibeth]

I'm really lazy about washing stuff...wonder how much extra protein I get.

 

I found a 2 inch slug crawling on my sink after washing a bag of vegetables (kale or spinach...can't remember which) that had been in the fridge for a few days in a ziplock bag. Willies for sure.

[Roz Griffiths]

Well, there's only one thing worse than finding a slug in your greens... Finding a half-eaten slug in your greens :-P

[ultrarunnergirl]

My CSA share comes UGLY. Always bugs, half eaten ... like Vian said, you KNOW no pesticides touched these veggies!