May 5, 2018 archive

Probiotic Night

Thursday night I bought some short ribs for Korean grilled kalbi. We’ve found a great recipe from The New York Times. The ribs marinate overnight in a soy sauce-onion-puréed pear mixture, then get grilled. So where do the probiotics come in? We served the ribs with napa cabbage kimchi and fermented pickled beets (not traditional, …

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The Shady Garden

We finally got some plants for the planters out front. It took a bit of consultation to select them. We sought input from Molbak’s. Our next door neighbor posted a query on Facebook. I emailed my sophomore roommate, who’s a horticulture professor in Virginia. Then we visited Sky Nursery and met Heather, one of the …

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Derby Day

I’m not much of a horse person, even though I have a degree in animal science. However, I do pay attention to the Triple Crown races every year. As with many people of my generation, the singular horse was and always will be Secretariat. His victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes is unmatched in any …

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