Here’s a mongrel dish if ever there was one. I’ll explain. In the process of making a roasted vegetable lasagna for a client I over calculated on the veggies. I had marinara sauce left over as well. There just had to be a good use for them. In stepped a length of pork sausage from [...]
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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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If you have a friend who knows how to turn out a pan of perfectly roasted vegetables, that is a friend to stick close to and learn from. My friend Shelley fits the description perfectly. She’s awfully generous about having us over to dinner. She doesn’t sweat bullets over the food and frequently the vegetables [...]
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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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