Archive for November, 2009

There is More to Turkey Than Roasting it for Thanksgiving

I have to confess that I do not have the proper respect for Thanksgiving.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that food-centric holiday. It’s just that - not having grown with it - I am not enough imbued with its traditions, and I am trying to make it… well… gasp! too… French. You see, many of [...]

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Postcard From The Field

Belle Meade Farm - October 2009

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On Chicken

The chicken have moved to their winter quarters.

We’ve taken the wire fence from the summer garden down; moved the electric net fence to enclose the new chicken area; relocated the coop inside the old summer garden, and built a little dome shelter - complete with perches - so the chicken can be outside [...]

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A Mess of Oysters

I love fresh oysters. When we lived in the city, we used to go to the wharf for Christmas and New Year, get fresh oysters in their shell, mud from the Chesapeake bay still clinging to them. Later that day, Keith would scrub them clean, open them and arrange them on trays of ice. A [...]

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Still Harvesting

Last evening I saw the man in the moon. In the incredible Hunter’s Moon that hanged, powerful and enormous, for a short while. As I was driving home, the sun sinking behind the mountains at my back , the majestic Moon was rising in the Eastern sky, capturing and reflecting the dying light from [...]

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