Anybody who says frozen peas are as good as fresh is kidding themselves. We like to think it’s true, because getting fresh peas isn’t easy. But really, there’s nothing to compare with peas right off the vine. My wife prefers them just like this–raw, uncooked. I see them tossed just a few seconds in a [...]
Whoever said gardening was easy? It might not be immediately obvious, but getting our front-yard kitchen garden to look like this took the better part of the Memorial Day weekend. By the end of it, we were grilling burgers and hot dogs and sipping our gin-and-tonics, but I was bushed. First, I harvested about 10 [...]
Tags: compost·cucumbers·garden·planting·spring·summer·summer squash·tomatoes
One of our favorite vegetables is fresh okra and we have a good climate for it here in the District of Columbia. We had a fine crop of Clemson Spineless two years ago and I saved a few seed pods. They’ve been kicking around the house ever since. At some point it occurred to me [...]
Tags: okra·seed saving
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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