Swiss cheese omelet with fried summer squash and grilled beef heart. Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none He gave one of our big, Italian summer squashes to our new friends Lee and Andrew. Last night, we arrived home from an outing and found that Lee had gifted us back with some of our own [...]
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Doesn’t every culture have some sort of fried bread favorite? Where would New Orleans be without its beignets? Or Mexico its sopapillas? Or Boston its donuts? In Bolivia, a country high in the Andes mountains of South American where our food appreciation classes are currently visiting on a virtual world food tour, they call their fried [...]
Tags: dessert·food appreciation·fry·kids·pastries·South American
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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