Vegan roasted vegetable lasagna. Why vegan? We had a client request a vegan dinner party because one of the guests was–you guessed it–a vegan. We wondered why the host insisted on subjecting his entire guest list to vegan food when just one of them professed to eat no animal products. In our book, you feed [...]
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This is a perfect time of year for roasted vegetables. Making lasagna with them can be quite a process. But there’s a payoff in the end: lots of food, either for a crowd or to freeze for later. This particular lasagna is time consuming but not difficult. All it really takes is a little knife [...]
You knew it was coming, didn’t you? The mustard greens we braised on Thursday are even better two days later. Turns out my 8 1/2-inch square baking pan makes nine portions of lasagna with rutabaga greens. So this morning, I am looking at greens every which way. And the best part may be, these were [...]
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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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