Egg and onion sandwich with homemade “crock” pickle. Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none My wife declares this “the best” egg sandwich ever. It’s made with a fresh pastured egg from Creekside Farm & Orchard in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Daughter and I walked to the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday and picked up [...]
Hebrew National beef hot dog with homemade chili on a potato roll. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none The dog and the chili are leftover from our inaugural catering event. Oh, I am hearing the howls out there, the cries of “Foul!” Because there is nothing very sustainable here. In fact, I think it’s a [...]
Leftovers, consisting of “Dad’s meatloaf” with mashed potatoes and collard greens. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none This meatloaf, a recipe we’ve adopted from Tyler Florence, is now our favorite. The loaf itself consists of ground beef and ground pork with eggs, bread crumbs soaked in milk and a wicked relish made of red bell [...]
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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