Tuesday, June 7, 2011

CSA Harvest! And, how I wash lettuce

The harvest station!  I soak salad greens in a large cooler before spinning them dry in an old honey centerfuge.  Note how the centerfuge is mounted on an repurposed pressure-washing cart, which gives it an eerie resemblance to R2D2.  I give thanks to Casey McKenzie, Ruthie Dougherty, and Vern Coffelt for making this contraption a reality.  I must note that rinsing greens like this, since not done in a commercial kitchen, does not make them technically ready-to-eat.

 Looking down into the basket of the centerfuge.

Today's harvest: 
1/2 lb salad greens
1/2 lb large-leaf spinach - tear up for salad or cook whole
1 bunch kale or swiss chard
1 bunch amethyst radish
1 bunch chives
1 green garlic

Enjoy!

3 comments:

  1. Brilliant!

    I'm sure that this in some way ties together salads, R2D2, and quantum physics ... not really sure how though

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  2. heh ... the Grand Unified Theory ... of salads

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  3. Your radishes are beautiful!

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