What do you do when the dairy delivers a half-gallon of buttermilk by mistake? Answer: Make buttermilk pie. This was my wife’s inspiration. Although, if you had nailed my feet to the floor and doused me with hot coffee, I probably could have remembered there was something called “buttermilk pie.” I love the flavor and [...]
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Really, all I wanted from my wife the baker were a few tips for making a sweet potato pie. We have all these sweet potatoes harvested from the garden and sweet potato pie was pencilled in as dessert for our choucroute dinner. But as so often happens, making this pie would not be as easy [...]
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Yes, I know. This is hardly sour cherry season. That’s still more than a month away. What you see here is the pie my wife made with the last of the sour cherries we picked last year. That would have been the 30 POUNDS of sour cherries that we picked ourselves at our favorite cherry [...]
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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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