Our new holiday tradition: family ginger bread house contruction. My wife made the dough a couple of days ahead, then cut the pieces for the houses according to a pattern and baked them. The houses were “glued” together with icing the night before. Then we set loose the kids–daughter and cousins–with all sorts of candy decorations. This is the result.
A ginger cul-de-sac
Concentration
Marshmallow solar panels
Flair with spoon
Placement is key
All's quiet at the dreidel hotel
Happy holidays!
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, one 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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