Apple butter is just a hop, skip and jump from applesauce. So if you already know how to make applesauce, you are just a couple of steps from having apple butter. There’s no dairy in apple “butter.” But it is thicker and darker than apple sauce–another of the thousand or so uses for apples our [...]
Sweet potato mash with ruby chard. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none These sweet potatoes were recently harvested from the garden, roasted in a 325-degree oven, then mashed and seasoned with orange juice, maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg. I have enough leftover mashed sweet potatoes to last the week. I am just finishing the last [...]
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Blue crabs qualify as a “disaster.” Oysters have all but disappeared. Each year the Chesapeake Bay spawns gigantic “dead zones” where nothing can live. The Chesapeake Bay is dying. The entire region continues to use it as a dumping ground for pollution. And for years all we’ve heard is talk about how something needs to [...]
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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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