One of my most vivid memories monitoring the dining habits in a local elementary school here in the District of Columbia was watching my very own daughter carefully dis-assemble a made-from-scratch lasagna so she could pick out and discard the spinach and eat just the pasta and cheese. Well, guess what? Kids will eat spinach. […]
We normally eschew fancy kitchen gadgets in our food appreciation classes in favor of making food by hand. But I make an exception when it comes to pasta simply because cranking the pasta machine and cutting noodles is so much fun. It really focuses the kids’ minds. The classes whiz by. This week I brought […]
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I call my version of eggplant Parmesan “naked” because unlike most, it is not battered with egg and bread crumbs. No, our focus is seasonal vegetables, not starch. So we present the kids in our food appreciation classes with an unadulterated slice of roasted eggplant, topped with a homemade marinara sauce, a slice of fresh […]
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