Entries Tagged as 'Ethnic'
It’s time for the semi-annual parents dinner at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes and I’ve settled on a Moroccan theme. Without a bevy of North African chefs in my kitchen, I’ve been left to ponder how I go about making a vegetable couscous that’s normally prepared in a special Moroccan [...]
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Before refrigeration, fisherman plying the rich Atlantic waters off Canada dried and salted their harvest of cod. The cod are mostly gone, but the tradition lives on, nowhere more so than in Portugal, where there are said to exist at least 1,000 recipes for preparing salt cod. Salt cod isn’t exactly a convenience food. You [...]
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Tags: food appreciation·Portuguese·salt cod
The simplest soup is also the best. Our food appreciation classes this week left Africa and landed in Portugal where we set to work making a classic potato and kale soup called caldo verde. Kids love this soup, so add it to your list of recipes that encourage kids to eat vegetables, in this case [...]
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Tags: food appreciation·kale·Portuguese·potatoes·soup