Do you take your squash perfectly smooth, or a bit lumpy? That was the dilemma I wrestled with in my “food appreciation” classes this week. I wanted the kids to experience the old-fashioned method of turning vegetables through a food mill into soup, but I wasn’t sure how they would react to the texture. As […]
Kids love to prep vegetables. I mean the peeling and slicing and chopping. So I wondered if there was any way to construct a lesson for my “food appreciation” classes that might combine a mess of vegetables with my urge to pickle, pickling being a very seasonal activity right now, and we are all about […]
Sometimes I am utterly surprised and dumbfounded by what tickles the taste buds of the kids in my “food appreciation” classes. Turns out they are wild for minestrone. This lesson concludes our study of fresh, seasonal summer fruits and vegetables. In the last month, we covered peaches in a peach cobbler, tomatoes with a fresh […]
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