Do you set aside a day to can tomatoes? I know I don’t. If I spent a day canning tomatoes, we’d have enough canned tomatoes to feed an army. We’ve found that just two healthy Roma tomato plants provide enough tomatoes to last us the entire year. In fact, we just used the last pint [...]
Apologies if this looks too much like yesterday’s post, but I direct your attention to the delectable brown blob on the right. I saw it recently advertised as “pork pudding” on our dairy’s website and had to know what it was. The “pudding” was so reasonably priced I ordered two. They arrived as small bricks, vacuum-packed, [...]
Tags: local food·pork
Swiss cheese omelet with braised green beans and bacon. Preparation time: 15 minutes Shopping: none Green beans for breakfast? Sure! Why not? We’ve harvested so many green beans from the garden I made a big batch of our favorite green beans braised for three hours. Consequently, we’ve been eating braised green beans just about every [...]
Tags: bacon·eggs·green beans
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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