Picture The Slow Cook roasting jerk chicken on the beach, sipping his daiquiri, maybe a little snorkeling action. Or maybe getting blown away in a hurricane? Through the Food Section at The Washington Post I was contacted by a family of 35 desperate for a chef to make them dinners during their week-long reunion guess [...]
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Yes, I know. This is hardly sour cherry season. That’s still more than a month away. What you see here is the pie my wife made with the last of the sour cherries we picked last year. That would have been the 30 POUNDS of sour cherries that we picked ourselves at our favorite cherry [...]
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That’s our friend Helen showing baby Hazel some of her garden moves. Apparently, years of team shuffleboard back in West Virginia left Helen with a solid right-hand raking arm… All kidding aside, Helen and I spent our first “action” morning at the Washington Youth Garden, located in the National Arboretum here in the District of [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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