Leftover turkey with fried eggs
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Shopping: none
Reheat the turkey–white meat, dark meat, doesn’t matter. Lay on two fried eggs. Do I need to tell you how good turkey tastes slathered in egg yolk?
Hey, a little stuffing and cranberry relish on the side wouldn’t be bad, either. If we were still eating stuffing and [...]
Entries from November 2009
Breakfast
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · breakfast
And Now For The Bones
November 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Wait! This is no time for the cook to rest on his laurels. Sure, you worked all day putting that feast together yesterday. You may feel like the kitchen is the last place you want to be. But if you were thinking, while everyone else zoned out in front of the television, you were scooping [...]
Tags: leftovers·soup·Thanksgiving·turkey
The Essence Of Giving
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · food news
You can title this ”Miracle On ‘S’ Street.”
For the past 11 years, while most people are feasting with family, neighbors of Rosemary’s Thyme Bistro, located on the corner of 18th and S streets near tony Dupont Circle here in the District of Columbia, have been quietly pooling their efforts to throw a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and needy.
Beginning in [...]
Tags: charity·restaurants·Thanksgiving
Say It Ain’t So: Edible Chesapeake Folds
November 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · food news
Renee Catacalos, publisher of Edible Chesapeake magazine, yesterday e-mailed all her fans to deliver some devastating news: after just four years of delivering the best coverage of local, sustainable food in our area, she is closing the magazine.
Edible Chesapeake is part of a family of publications delivering similar content about the good food movement around [...]
Tags: local food·magazines
A Food Stamp Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food news
With the entire nation girding for a gustatory blowout, we would do well to remember that not everyone has the means to put on their own feast for Thanksgiving. One D.C. blogger has been doing exactly that, chronicling for the past month a challenge she set for herself: survive at least 30 days on a [...]
Tags: Food Blogs·food stamps·poverty
Oxtails And Friends
November 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, dinner
Some braised meat dishes are so rich they take your breath away. I place oxtails in that category. Richness dictates smaller portion sizes, which fits oxtail perfectly since this is one piece of meat that is mostly bone. Oxtail belongs to that group of odd bits that butchers in a bygone era would practically give away. [...]
Tags: beef·braise·entertaining·fall
Feeding Broccoli
November 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · garden
Can I just say how disappointing it is to spend weeks and weeks growing plants from seeds–moving the plants from seed cells into the ground, watching them grow, fretting over every bug bite–and still not getting the desired results? Such is my frustration with broccoli. We do love this vegetable, but trying to produce big [...]
Kids Make Yams And Okra
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Ethnic, kids
Get ready to adjust your idea of what constitutes a yam. In Africa, a yam definitely is not the tuber we so frequently confuse with a supermarket sweet potato. Where real yams are concerned, you need to think bigger. A true yam (from a perennial vine in the Dioscoreaceae family) can grow up to eight feet [...]
Tags: African·food appreciation·greens·okra·yams
What We Had For Dinner: Lobster Salad
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments · dinner
When we heard our friend Darren was planning to visit from Maine we immediately placed an order for lobsters. How can you not when a 1 1/4-pound lobster costs only $5? Well, pity the pour lobster fishermen. This recession has knocked the stuffing out of the lobster market. But we are happy to step up [...]
Fighting Childhood Obesity With Gardens
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Wellness, garden, kids
I had not intended to be a featured speaker when I took the Metro out to Anacostia yesterday to sit in on a meeting of the Early Childhood Obesity Collaborative. But there I was, waiting for the part of the agenda titled “Ward 8 Gardening Project” in the auditorium of Matthews Memorial Baptist Church, when the [...]
Tags: District of Columbia·obesity
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.
