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 […]
The inspiration for this potato salad came from our recent garden cleanup. Where I wanted to plant okra, potatoes were growing, apparently from spuds I had missed during last year’s harvest. I dug up the new plants (hated to do it) and in the process gathered a bucket-full of potatoes. Could they possibly be edible? […]
Here’s a lesson in how guacamole turns into carrot salad. I had every intention of showing the kids in my “food appreciation” classes how to make a classic guacamole. The plan was to use some of the ripe avocados that have been on prominent display at the local Whole Foods lo these past few weeks. […]
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