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Question
In your answer to Joe's Restaurant question you mention many vegetables you can eat (i.e. tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, olives, capers, peppers, and celery). You also mentioned to watch out for the "bug vegetables." I know the bug vegetable catagory includes spinach, lettuce and cauliflower. I was wondering if you can list all other veggies that we should be on the look out for.
Answer
Answered by Aaron AbadiOff the top of my head.... spinach, lettuce and cauliflower Brocolli, dill, and parsley mushrooms, cabbage, and asparagus Some are cleanable, while others are not. Brocolli & cauliflower are impossible to clean dill & parsley use the dried, that's fine. lettuce and cabbage can be cleaned by rubbing each leaf under running water, but you must rub every spot, so if there's a bug there, it comes off. If you find clumps in your salad, you know that you didn't do it properly. Other items are issues, but have easier ways to clean. corn on the cob: sometimes you buy it spotlessly clean without any of the hairs or nothing. Those are OK, and obviously cleaned well by the company. If you buy them, however, fresh and they're not clean, fill up a big bowl with water and salt or vinegar and let them sit for a half hour, then you can clean them & the bugs will be gone; some floating in the water, and others washed down the drain. Onions have bugs, but the stay on the outside layer near either of the tips. Most commercial kitchens and even private people cut an onion in the way that the bugs are gone. You cut off both ends and you remove the outside layer or two, and make sure not to put the onion down on the same counter as the bug parts, because you'll see them running across the counter to the onion. asparagus has bugs in the little flaps. eat around them or peel them off. mushrooms are new to the bug craze, I don't know what to do yet. There are a lot more. I asked one of the mavens to write up a whole thing, but it never happened. I'll keep bothering them. AA