Al0ng with milk, cream, yogurt and cheeses, our local dairy will deliver a variety of meat products. And not just from their dairy herd. They’ve arranged with other farmers to make pork, lamb and chicken available, too. But you have to check the website periodically to see what’s on the menu. Recently I put in [...]
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Egg and onion sandwich with homemade “crock” pickle. Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none My wife declares this “the best” egg sandwich ever. It’s made with a fresh pastured egg from Creekside Farm & Orchard in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Daughter and I walked to the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday and picked up [...]
Tuesday is delivery day for dairy from South Mountain Creamery. My new routine is to open a bottle of whole, cream-top milk (meaning pasteurized but not homogenized) and make a batch of yogurt for the week. I’ve done this so many times now that I can almost make yogurt in my sleep. I’ve found that [...]
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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