Here’s something I’d never seen before in my daughter’s elementary school cafeteria: A burrito made out of a giant flour tortilla, “turkey ham” and processed cheese slices. Apparently there wasn’t enough starch in the burrito, so one of the sides is pasta noodles. The green stuff is Exhibit A explaining why kids in D.C. schools [...]
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Leftover turkey with fried eggs Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none Reheat the turkey–white meat, dark meat, doesn’t matter. Lay on two fried eggs. Do I need to tell you how good turkey tastes slathered in egg yolk? Hey, a little stuffing and cranberry relish on the side wouldn’t be bad, either. If we were [...]
Wait! This is no time for the cook to rest on his laurels. Sure, you worked all day putting that feast together yesterday. You may feel like the kitchen is the last place you want to be. But if you were thinking, while everyone else zoned out in front of the television, you were scooping [...]
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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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