If it’s Thursday, it must be split pea soup and pancakes with lingonberry jam. At least that’s the custom in Sweden where our food appreciation classes happen to be visiting on their virtual world culinary tour. Concidentally, this was happening at the same time D.C. Public Schools were celebrating Nordic day, with traditional foods being [...]
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This was the scene yesterday entering the Smithsonian Sculpture Garden ice rink on the mall here in the District of Columbia. Notice the grass. And here’s the same view January 24, following our historic snowstorm. What a difference a few weeks makes. Daughter and friends got up early for skating and needed a hearty breakfast. So [...]
With refined flour, sugar and grape jelly, these pancakes wouldn’t appear at the top of my list of healthful foods I would wish for my daughter. But she made them herself, so I count this as a win. Anything that disabuses kids of processed factory foods is a good thing, in my book. Plus, this [...]
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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