Nothing says meat better than a beef rib roast. In our family, there’s a tradition of serving one of these beasts for an early dinner on Christmas Day along with Yorkshire pudding and the mandatory mashed potatoes. It doesn’t hurt that one of the sisters-in-law works for a meat distributor in Baltimore. Have you checked [...]
A roasting chicken arrived in our weekly CSA box which happily answers the question, What are we making for our Dark Days Local Challenge meal this week? Concidentally, our friend Marty from California, who we haven’t seen in a lifetime, came to visit. Isn’t it nice to have a friend who exclaims over a simple [...]
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This is how an accidental roast pork happens: I pulled the roast out of the freezer several days ago. It was one of the bone-in loin roasts we brought back from our farmer friend’s matanza earlier in the month. But then we ended up throwing a dinner party for 10 people. The roast wasn’t big [...]
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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