How to rescue leftover salad
Sautéed salad? Yep, sautéed salad. This grew out of my aversion to leftover salad. Once the greens, particularly delicate greens, are dressed, I| Eat Or Toss
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What you see: The tip or top portion of your ear of corn is destroyed and gross. It may be covered in something that looks like wet, brown dryer lint. You may also see a caterpillar that could be brown, green, yellow or pink. What it is: Destruction wrought by a corn earworm. Aliases: tomato fruitworm, […] The post Destroyed tip of corn, possibly with caterpillar appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
If you’re not in the habit of cooking with them, capers are one of those ingredients that you might buy for a certain recipe (in my house it’s lox bagels) and then forget about. But let’s put them to work! I’ve rounded up recipes from food bloggers that make great use of those briny, itty […] The post How to use up the rest of the capers in the jar appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
Sautéed salad? Yep, sautéed salad. This grew out of my aversion to leftover salad. Once the greens, particularly delicate greens, are dressed, I| Eat Or Toss
Check out my latest article in The Washington Post! This time, I rounded up recipes from around the world that are great for using up odds and ends. The story published just in time for the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Check it out here. The post In the Washington Post: Global inspiration for low-waste cooking appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Mold inside your cream cheese tub. What it is: Oldy, moldy cream cheese. Eat or toss: Toss! In a soft food like cream cheese, the mold could| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Cottony white spots on your blueberries; probably where the stem attached or where there might have been a wound in the blueberry’s skin.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A dried out, papery bit or husk stuck to your blueberry. What it is: Petals! The corolla tube, if you want to be fancy about it. Eat or| Eat Or Toss
Today, I’m excited to feature a recipe from Teralyn Pilgrim, author of the excellent book, No Scrap Left Behind: My Life Without Food Waste. Read her book! It’s funny and insightful and takes an honest look at what it really takes to reduce food waste amid the demands of modern life. Here’s one of her […] The post Fondue Leftovers Soup appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Black dots on your orange peel. What it is: Peel damage of some kind. Eat or toss: If the orange looks and smells good under the peel, go ahead and eat. Can you eat an orange with spots on the peel? We previously wrote about a grapefruit with unsightly black spots that were likely […] The post Black spots on your orange’s peel appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A white something or other on the frilly end of a blueberry. It’s not fuzzy like mold and may look like linen or gauze up close. What it is:| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Dark spots on your grapefruit’s peel.What it is: A lot of issues could cause dark spots, but in this case a physical injury is likely.Eat or toss: As long as the fruit looks normal under the peel, it’s an “eat.” Why does this grapefruit have little spots all over it? Citrus fruits […] The post Dark spots on grapefruit peel appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Yellow beads on portions of your broccoli where the florets come together. You might only see the yellow if you bend the broccoli a bit to| Eat Or Toss
Quick summary: While the skin on whole fruits and vegetables protects them, sliced and chopped produce has more vulnerable exposed surface area and can| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A dark ring inside a cross section of your grapefruit rind. Or, if you’ve peeled the fruit, you may see a blue tinge just below the exterior peel. You might even see some blue on the segments. What it is: Blue albedo! Basically just a pigment fluke, which can happen if grapefruit trees […] The post Blueish color just under your grapefruit’s peel? appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Your broccoli head is turning yellow. What it is: Overall yellowing is a sign of over mature broccoli; the broccoli could have been stored| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A brown stain on your banana. What it is: A superficial “burn” from banana sap.Eat or toss: Eat! As long as the banana otherwise looks fine, it should be good to eat. Banana latex can stain bananas When banana bunches are cut off the stem, they often exude a sap. If that sap […] The post Brown stains on your banana? appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A sunken black spot on your mango. What it is: A fungus known as anthracnose.Eat or toss: Cut the affected area off with some relatively| Eat Or Toss
What you see: A white wispy thing around your apple stem. What it is: Insect webbing. Eat or toss: Wipe it off and get on with your apple-eating plans. Why do some apples have white wisps around the stems? As large, bipedal creatures, we humans may barely notice the little dip around an apple stem. But for […] The post What are those white fluffy things around some apple stems? appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
How fun to write a feature article for the newly relaunched EdibleDC! This magazine covers all things foodie in Washington, D.C., and I was glad to write a piece about the local foraging scene, from restaurants to backyards to forests. I hope you’ll check it out here. The post Foraged foods in EdibleDC! appeared first on Eat Or Toss.| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Apple flesh that eventually turns brown after being sliced or bitten. What it is: Enzymatic browning! Eat or toss: Eat! When that tray of| Eat Or Toss
What you see: Your broccoli is bendy or floppy. It’s lost its firm texture. What it is: Water loss. Eat or toss: Eat! As long as everything else| Eat Or Toss
When it comes to date labels, shelf life and food safety, there’s a narrow range of foods that merit some caution because, after an extended stay in the| Eat Or Toss
