Sour cherry cobbler with farm-fresh half-and-half. Preparation time: five minutes Shopping: none Here’s a real treat first thing in the morning: fininding sour cherry cobbler left over from Sunday’s dinner. Quick! Get me a bowl! I heated the cobbler in the microwave, then doused it with some of the sweet half-and-half we get delivered from [...]
Tags: breakfast·cobbler·dairy·sour cherries
When I was growing up, we had an insulated metal box outside the side door to the kitchen. This is where the milkman left our regular delivery of milk and eggs and butter and such. Does that make me an antique? Many of you may be too young to remember the milk man. He arrived [...]
Tags: dairy·local farming·local foods
Something I’ve been doing the last four years is reading stories three times a week to one of the classes at my daughter’s charter school. In addition, I incorporate a storybook into my “food appreciation” classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia. All of which means I check out a [...]
Tags: dairy·Industrial agriculture
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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