We catered a dinner party for a client last night and we were especially puffed up over the fact that most of the food came from our garden here in the District of Columbia about one mile from the White House. The world may be going to hell in a handbasket elsewhere, but our front [...]
Tags: beans·casserole dishes
Kids love to prep vegetables. I mean the peeling and slicing and chopping. So I wondered if there was any way to construct a lesson for my “food appreciation” classes that might combine a mess of vegetables with my urge to pickle, pickling being a very seasonal activity right now, and we are all about [...]
In response to an earlier post about the experience of browning chicken in a friend’s extraordinary enameled iron pan, family members offered to donate one (enameled pan, that is) to The Slow Cook’s kitchen battery. So I arranged an outing with my in-laws to Arundel Mills Mall outside Annapolis to visit the Le Creuset outlet. [...]
Tags: sausages
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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