I truly enjoy buying my veggies from the farmer’s market, when available. I’ve always washed what I brought home very well. It seems that there is still a “grit” on it. Once, I went to the farmers market in Madison with a friend. We stopped at a meat market on the way, and made a nice lunch at my house. The salad had a lot of grit on, even after washing.
When I get home from the farmer’s market, I enjoy the proces of cleaning my veggies. I usually fill a large stock pot with cold water and salt This is very effective, but I don’t like to taste the salt. Plus, my co-workers thought that it was crazy! Imagine that! The stuff they sell at the store is expensive, and I don’t like to kid myself about chemicals. I’m not very smart with this kind of thing, but I don’t really trust commercial products and am working on getting away from a lot of them.
I did my usual...starting fishing around on the internet. I went to look it up again, just before writing this and could not find it. Oh, well!
Ingredients:
- 1 gallon cold tap water.
- 3 tbsp. cider vinegar, or lemon (for the acid).
- 3 tbsp. baking soda (optional, but the recipe claimed that this would make the produce “squeaky clean”). I used it.
Drop veggies in solution. Soak for a minute or so. Rince with cold water and dry, as much as possible.
I soaked several veggies in the same pot of cleaner. I started with washing the kale, the lettuce, the cilantro, and the potatos. After all of that, the solution was very dirty and had lots of grit on the bottom. Rinse the veggies after soaking in that solution. The best part is that my veggies were clean and did not have grit. Wait, maybe the best part is the low price tag of this wash and the understandable list of ingredients!
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