We're stirring things up in the Culinary Classroom!
Things are cooking every week in the kitchen classroom. Our big WIG--"Wildly Important Goal," is to learn to make at least ten affordable nutritiously delicious meals easily replicated at home & throughout our lives. More importantly, we grow what we eat!
RECIPE: A little bit of this, a little bit of that, garlic roasted sweet potatoes
INGREDIENTS:
2 large sweet potatoes, 1 sweet yellow onion, 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, 1/2 bunch of flat leaf parsley
(Flat leaf parsley is tastier than curly but curly will work in a pinch), extra virgin olive oil, and salt & pepper
UTENSILS: Cutting board, knife , cookie sheet, parchment paper (optional), scissors
INSTRUCTIONS:
2 large sweet potatoes, 1 sweet yellow onion, 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, 1/2 bunch of flat leaf parsley
(Flat leaf parsley is tastier than curly but curly will work in a pinch), extra virgin olive oil, and salt & pepper
UTENSILS: Cutting board, knife , cookie sheet, parchment paper (optional), scissors
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Dice 2 large sweet potatoes and spread onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper (paper optional).
- Chop onion and slide over over potatoes.
- Smash to 3 cloves of garlic and discard papery skin. Chop up cloves into tiny pieces (mince) and sprinkle over potatoes and onion.
- Using your scissors, cut the leaves of parsley over the potatoes, onion, and garlic mixture. Discard stems.
- Drizzle olive oil over the mixture in a slow light-handed stream.
- Add a few liberal pinches of salt and pepper over the potato mixture.
- With clean hands toss lightly coating the potatoes. Spread mixture evenly on the pan.
- Place cookie sheet on middle rack. Roast potatoes for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally for even cooking.
- Remove from oven and taste for additional seasoning. Serve garlic roasted sweet potatoes warm.
TAKE A BITE OUT OF LITERACY NIGHT!
This year our Family Literacy Night fell on National Food Day. So we decided to serve up literacy in a satisfying way. The culinary students made "School Stone Soup," and soup kits from donations from each grade level. We put together 100 soup kits with a copy of Stone Soup, graciously provided by Scholastic. That evening, students demonstrated how to make "School Stone Soup," while families sipped on our soup. Each family in attendance took our soup kit home complete with ingredients, recipe and a book.
In the cultivated classroom, each family was treated to story time with an overgrown sweet pea, and given a copy of Garden on Green Street, a book about a community garden, much like our school garden. Families also harvested bags of lettuce greens and sweet snap peas to take home. All in all we had a howling good time.
This year our Family Literacy Night fell on National Food Day. So we decided to serve up literacy in a satisfying way. The culinary students made "School Stone Soup," and soup kits from donations from each grade level. We put together 100 soup kits with a copy of Stone Soup, graciously provided by Scholastic. That evening, students demonstrated how to make "School Stone Soup," while families sipped on our soup. Each family in attendance took our soup kit home complete with ingredients, recipe and a book.
In the cultivated classroom, each family was treated to story time with an overgrown sweet pea, and given a copy of Garden on Green Street, a book about a community garden, much like our school garden. Families also harvested bags of lettuce greens and sweet snap peas to take home. All in all we had a howling good time.
Look what's jumping off in the kitchen...Jumpin' Jiaozi!Jiaozi are Chinese dumplings, traditionally made around the Chinese Lunar New Year. In the culinary classroom we enjoy them year round, making plenty to eat family style, and we freeze the rest for a quick snack on a rainy garden day. Don't forget the hot Jasmine tea and local honey a must when you're serving up jiaozi.
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Cook with your Kid Nights at Gregory-Lincoln
"Cook with your Kid Nights," are a delicious way for our Gregory-Lincoln families to spend time working together, to put healthy meals on the table. Our way to lift our palates and plates to take a bite out of the obesity epidemic plaguing our community. Pictured are participating families going from the garden to the plate!
