Sometimes through luck or merely endless repetition we hit on something that seems to have been perfectly designed. That’s the way I feel about this soup, a delicious melding of earthy white beans and the sweet flavors of onion, carrot and fennel. I’ve made the soup so many times I no longer remember when or [...]
When I appeared before the Garden Club of Annapolis last week the misstress of ceremonies by way of introduction ticked off some of the bullet points in my bio: Former newspaper reporter, caterer, personal chef, gardener, teacher. “And what does that mean, exactly, ‘The Slow Cook,’?” she asked when she got to the moniker 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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