Here’s what my friend John and I had for breakfast recently: leftover roasted vegetables topped with poached eggs, Black Forest bacon on the side. Can I just say, leftover are highly underrated as breakfast food? Take a look in your fridge. You may have breakfast options there you never thought of. I love it when [...]
Tags: eggs·roasted vegetabls
What do you do when you’re running low on sausage for breakfast? Why, make your own, of course. Well, sometimes you just get tired of homemade pancetta or even Merguez sausage with your morning omelet. Sounds impossible, I know. But in fact, just to shake things up a bit, I thought some fresh pork sausage was [...]
Tags: Charcutepalooza·sausage
I had a bunch of buckwheat crepes left over from last week’s cooking classes, keeping them under wraps in the fridge. What to do with them? Well, one night they became dinner. We stuffed them with thinly sliced Black Forest ham and Swiss cheese, then baked them in the oven topped with a pat of [...]
Tags: crepes
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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