Who makes their own butter anymore?Hardly anyone, and that may be because there was a time when the only way you could get butter was to sit in front of a churn and pound away at it until your arms were numb. Yet making your own butter is extremely satisfying and connects us deeply with [...]
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Sometimes the presence of a single ingredient in the pantry takes us places we would not ordinarily go. Part of my reward for helping farmer friend Mike Klein butcher his turkeys this year was a small bottle of genuine buttermilk. Well, it wasn’t just any bottle. It was a Coca Cola bottle he’d cleaned and [...]
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There are a few things you can do with blueberries in Maine. Meg, the professional baker in the family, makes a terrific blueberry pie. In fact, my wife brought several pie doughs she’d made here in the District of Columbia and paired them with Meg’s pie filling for dessert one evening. You can also make [...]
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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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