Imagine the most delicious pot roast you’ve ever tasted. Now open your eyes and look at your plate. That’s no beef chuck, my friend. That’s tongue. This may be the first time ever that friends have declined a dinner invitation. “Too squeamish,” abjured one of our most reliable gastro partners when we announced our beef [...]
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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My wife has decided that her favorite part of the high-protein lifestyle is the Bearnaise sauce, thick with butter and egg yolk. In this case, I decided to celebrate a hard week of catering with a fine New York strip steak from Whole Foods. I seared it hard in an iron skillet, then finished it [...]
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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