Entries Tagged as 'food appreciation'
September 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
We are overwhelmed with Roma tomatoes from our garden. Perhaps this is a good time to teach the kids in my “food appreciation” classes a thing or two about canning. First job is to blanch the tomatoes in a big pot of boiling water for about 20 seconds (15 seconds is about the minimum). Chill […]
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June 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
My idea for our final “food appreciation” classes of the year was to treat the kids to angel food cake. But if you read my earlier post, you know how that turned out. I needed a replacement concept, fast. It occurred to me that we’d spent so much time peeling vegetables in recent months that […]
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Tags:carrots·food appreciation·kids·potatoes
June 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
What you see here is an angel food cake that started out with great hopes and expectations and ended in utter disaster. Why, you might ask, is The Slow Cook making angel food cake? Shouldn’t he be out tending his garden? The short of it is, we had a freezer full of frozen egg whites […]
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Tags:baking·cake·eggs·food appreciation