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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Did you say meatless Mondays? Hell no. Not in this house. We are firm believers that humans were designed to eat meat, and we get ours pasture-raised from our dairy, South Maintain Creamery, in Middletown, MD. The ground beef we use for burgers (it’s delivered, just like the milk and other dairy products) is a [...]
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How did the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission know we are growing our own sweet potatoes? I just received an e-mail urging me to enter a “bloggers recipe contest” sponsored by the sweet potato commission. I might have blown it off, but the reward for best recipe is $1,000. That got me thinking maybe I [...]
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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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