A new item showed up recently in the meat selections at our local dairy: beef short ribs. Since our dairy delivers milk, cheese and meat to our home, we considered this a great development. We love beef short ribs, especially this time of year when braising meat for a long time in the oven is [...]
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It was daughter’s birthday this weekend and she requested her favorite food: steak. Normally I would seek out grassfed steak. It’s not only the most flavorful–depending on the cow, of course–but also the healthiest. Perusing the meat counter at Whole Foods, however, my eyes landed on these bone-in beauties. I can’t hardly count they number [...]
Write my daughter a blank check and she’d be grilling ribeye steaks for dinner every night. But sometimes the best we can do is grassfed hamburger from the beef herd at our local dairy. Daughter moans and rolls her eyes because we don’t use buns with our burgers. But look here: She devised her own [...]
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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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