If you’re hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, it’s time to pre-order your local turkey! If you read a lot of food magazines (or blogs) to prepare for your Thanksgiving feast, you’ve probably seen a lot of talk about brining the turkey in recent years. Soaking the bird in a saltwater is supposed to add succulence […]
Countdown to Thanksgiving: Order Your Local Turkey Today!
November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Tags: eatLocalDC · fresh from the... · holiday · Know Your Food · NoVA Locavore · organic · sustainable family supper
Free Range, Grass-Fed Beef (and Pork and Chicken)
April 17th, 2009 · 21 Comments
Part V of the Sustainable Family Supper series, and my submission to this week’s Fight Back Friday, hosted by the Food Renegade. It’s probably obvious by now that we are not vegetarians by any means. I actually did abstain from red meat for nearly 5 years during my idealistic youth (high school and college) for […]
Tags: at market · eatLocalDC · NoVA Locavore · proteins · sustainable family supper