Here’s what my friend John and I had for breakfast recently: leftover roasted vegetables topped with poached eggs, Black Forest bacon on the side. Can I just say, leftover are highly underrated as breakfast food? Take a look in your fridge. You may have breakfast options there you never thought of. I love it when [...]
Tags: eggs·roasted vegetabls
Earlier this year my food appreciation classes spent several weeks in Spain making a variety of tapas, beginning with the grandaddy of all tapas–the Spanish tortilla. What they call “tortilla” in Spain would be an omelet in France–lots of eggs cooked in a pan with potatoes. First the potatoes are thinly sliced and cooked in [...]
Tags: eggs·food appreciation·Spanish·tapas
Here’s a switch from the usual eggs and bacon. A neighbor recently gifted us with about 30 pounds of venison from their family farm in Virginia. The package included several tenderloins. Some went into the freezer. Others I marinated for a couple of days in red wine with thyme, onion, garlic, juniper berries–the usual suspects–then [...]
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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