Consuming salad at home the way I do takes a bit of work.
Consuming salad at home the way I do takes a bit of work. I buy the big heads at the farmers market and they are full of dirt and probably a bug or two, because they’re organic. I don’t mind, it’s relaxing and gives me an excuse to play music while puttering around in the kitchen on a nice day. Here’s red leaf lettuce & romaine. I probably go through two heads in a week, or one and a half, if they’re big. After I wash the leaves, I dry them really well on a kitchen towel, and then wrap in paper towel. Keeps crisp for even longer than I usually need. I normally do this on Sundays, but had some extra to work with.
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I do the same. Sometimes I get bagged salads but mostly a few heads of lettuce I have to wash
I can’t even with bagged because I’m too thrifty.
Our lettuce always has feckin’ live snails! Live snails in a shell like on the national geographic channel! I usually flick them off the leaves off the balcony onto the street.
Lol they love lettuce!
…and the birds love them. (the snails)
That dry them on a towel and wrap in paper towels will more than double the life of most any green. I have lettuce in my fridge that will be 2 weeks old on Saturday, perfectly edible and crisp (maybe a little rust on the ends of the leaves)
Sounds about right to me. I usually eat it up pretty quickly, though there was one time that I let a leaf or two languish in the bottom of the crisper drawer under some other stuff, and as I was getting ready to throw the whole wad of paper away, I took a look and sure enough, it was totally crisp and not soggy or browned at all. I used the leaf and a half on a sammich.