I recently wrote about a mongrel split-pea, lentil and ham soup. That was a great soup, thrown together with a variety of legumes in small quantities that were taking up space in our pantry. Well, we recently put together a birthday party for our friend Desson and inherited the meaty bone from a honey-glazed, spiral-cut [...]
You are probably wondering how I arrived at a soup containing split peas, two different kids of lentils, ham and sweet potatoes. I assure you, this did not involve a visit from the soup fairy. I started with a meaty ham bone for which I had already envisioned a soupy destination. More precisely, split pea [...]
I’m glad to be starting the new year with my new meat grinder. This was supposed to be an enamled cast-iron saute pan, but some of you may recall that when we went to the mall outside Annapolis to purchase the pan, the Le Creuset outlet was no longer there. We stumbled into a Pro [...]
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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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