We are having great fun with our cast-iron wok. We’ve stir-fried almost every imaginable protein. Tonight it was time for pork to take a turn. I simply cut some boneless pork chops into thin strips and created a multi-faceted stir-fry using enoki mushrooms left over from a catering job along with tat soi freshly harvested [...]
At last, we are making our own salad from the garden again. I take a lazy approach to growing salad greens. As soon as the soil can be worked in the spring I add a little compost and scatter seeds for a variety of greens and lettuces. One narrow bed was devoted to arugula, mizuna, spinach, [...]
We found some shrimp frozen in the freezer. Defrosted and tossed in our cast-iron wok, this is the result: shrimp stir fry with vegetables and piquant garlic sauce. Notice, no rice. We are skipping the starchy carbs in favor of healthful protein and fresh produce. The wok makes quick and simple work of it. Recipe: [...]
Tags: dinner·seafood·shrimp·stir fry·vegetables
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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