Hebrew National beef hot dog with homemade chili on a potato roll. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none The dog and the chili are leftover from our inaugural catering event. Oh, I am hearing the howls out there, the cries of “Foul!” Because there is nothing very sustainable here. In fact, I think it’s a [...]
My favorite resource for authentic Texas chili is our friend Melissa Guerra and her gem of a cookbook, Dishes from the Wild Horse Desert: Norteno Cooking of South Texas. Chili in this part of the country is so simple a cowboy could carry the ingredients around in his saddle bag. A puree is made from [...]
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Question: When did chili become the dish of choice for the Super Bowl? I don’t remember this being the case when I was growing up. (Maybe we didn’t have a Super Bowl when I was growing up.)Now when the Super Bowl rolls around, it seems that every chili recipe in the world comes out of [...]
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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