This is one of our favorites: beet salad with red onions. And in the summer, we like to add tomatoes. Toss with olive oil, red wine vinegar, chives. Have you noticed, the chives are almost ready to bloom. The lavender-colored flowers make a great addition to salads as well. The reason this salad looks so [...]
Did we really have to go all the way to South Africa to make beet salad? My food appreciation classes continue on their virtual world food tour and this extremely simple beet salad turned up in the African cookbook we are using as a reference. There’s nothing especially African about it, but it is seasonal [...]
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Have you noticed fresh Alaska sockeye salmon at your local seafood counter? We eat as much as we can afford from Whole Foods. Recently we harvested our remaining chiogga beets to make a simple side with olive oil and red wine vinegar. And the finest greens of all are the beet tops, gently sauteed with [...]
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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