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Entries Tagged as 'vegetables'

Kids Make Middle Eastern Garden Pickles

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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 […]

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Kids Love Minestrone

October 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

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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Seasonal Vegetable Soup

September 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

People automatically think of soup as cold weather food, but this may be the best time of all for making a vegetable soup. The flavors of freshly harvested vegetables are brilliant and there are so many to choose from. Use the ones you have grown yourself, or check the awesome displays at the local farmers […]

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