We are having great fun with our cast-iron wok. We’ve stir-fried almost every imaginable protein. Tonight it was time for pork to take a turn. I simply cut some boneless pork chops into thin strips and created a multi-faceted stir-fry using enoki mushrooms left over from a catering job along with tat soi freshly harvested […]
Can the farmer get too much rain? “I haven’t seen anything like this in 10 years,” says Leigh Hauter of our dreary weather lately in the Washington, D.C.area. “This is spring, but you usually have more time to get things in the ground. This is a bad one.” Leigh should be setting his tomatoes and […]
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At last, we are making our own salad from the garden again. I take a lazy approach to growing salad greens. As soon as the soil can be worked in the spring I add a little compost and scatter seeds for a variety of greens and lettuces. One narrow bed was devoted to arugula, mizuna, spinach, […]
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