This just shows you how dumb I am when it comes to baking. Pondering the next move in my baking appreciation classes, I thought it would be so cool to have the kids make one of the cookies my grandmother made for Christmas every year. Everyone in our family has vivid memories of “gram” arriving [...]
Tags: Christtmas·cookies
Kids turned out in droves for the first of my new “baking appreciation” classes. They’ve longed for something sweet instead of those nasty old vegetables we usually cook all the time. Since I’m not a professional baker, I was looking for something fairly simple but also seasonal and appropriate as a dessert for tonight’s parents [...]
I’ve taken on a new challenge at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes: baking. We’ve divided the year into three teaching segments, instead of just one for each semester. They asked me to come up with something besides “cooking,” where we’ve been traveling the world for the last three years. I [...]
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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