Yesterday I described the simple process my wife used to make delicious ricotta cheese. Since she made it from fresh, whole milk, it produced lots of whey. That’s the liquid that separates from the protein solids in the cheese making process. We had a pot of whey sitting in the refrigerator for several days trying [...]
My wife recently had an itch to make ricotta cheese. She says that cheese making and writing limericks are her new passions. Who knew? Anyway, her ricotta, made with the grassfed milk we get from our local dairy, was the best I’ve ever tasted: thick and creamy. I ate it right out of the bowl, [...]
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Swiss cheese omelet with fried summer squash and grilled beef heart. Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none He gave one of our big, Italian summer squashes to our new friends Lee and Andrew. Last night, we arrived home from an outing and found that Lee had gifted us back with some of our 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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