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serious crayons:
I eat spinach a lot. I have this weird lunch: I saute bagged spinach (or arugula) with garlic and olive oil and top it with two eggs. I eat that three to five days a week. It might sound strange, but it's actually really good -- kind of like eggs Florentine without the English muffin or hollandaise sauce -- it's pretty nutritious and only takes a few minutes to make. If I have to stop fixing it, I won't be able to stand it!
Anyway, I usually use Earthbound Farms spinach (or arugula). But then, I sautee it. Does anyone know how much heat is required to kill the E. coli?
nakymaton:
Here's a link to the CDC's e. coli information page:
http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DBMD/diseaseinfo/escherichiacoli_g.htm
My son had that strain of e. coli two years ago. Miserable, miserable stuff, though fortunately he didn't get any of the complications. But it just won't go away. For some reason, you can't use antibiotics, so you just have to wait for all the bad e. coli to leave the system. And that takes FOREVER. Eating lots of yogurt (and adding acidophilus bacteria to everything else) helped clear it out, eventually.
And if a kid in diapers gets it: Boudreaux's Butt Paste. I know it's a running joke on the Performance Thread, but I was about ready to buy stock in the company. The stuff absolutely rules.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 18, 2006, 12:36:50 pm ---Does anyone know how much heat is required to kill the E. coli?
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Probably enough to make the spinach itself inedible.
Anyway, "Well, I don't eat spinach." ;D
(I don't. My mother didn't like it--too bitter, I think--so she didn't serve it, so I didn't have to grow up eating it.)
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 18, 2006, 01:31:44 pm ---Anyway, "Well, I don't eat spinach."
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But would you order it for a really cute cowboy who was sick of beans?
(Katherine, they say to cook hamburger to at least 180 F to kill E. coli, so I would guess the same temperature would kill it on spinach, too. I don't know how hot stuff gets during sauteeing, but if you would eat meat cooked the same way - like browning the meat?, you're probably ok.)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on September 18, 2006, 02:25:34 pm ---But would you order it for a really cute cowboy who was sick of beans?
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Naw, for him I'd order soup. ;)
I might order spinach for a sour-tempered foreman by the name of Aguirre. ... ;D
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