Hi everyone, sorry we can’t be together for the rest of the year but wanted to talk a little about the food of the month – Cucumbers! Continue reading
Quick and Easy Cucumbers Salad!
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Harnessing the Harvest
It is harvest season here at Allamakee and boy do we have a bounty! In clearing the garden beds for a winter planting, we harvested beautiful beets and krafty kohlrabi to be used by the Waukon Middle School Cooking Club. We also pulled a few surprise carrots from the beds! Continue reading
Recipes for Little Hands
There is no way around the fact that cooking with children can be a little messy. Crumbs and spills aside, cooking with children is a great way to spend quality time and teach important skills like measuring, counting, fractions and following directions. Not to mention the fact that children will be more likely to taste something they helped to make. Below is a recipe roundup of dishes that are fun to make and eat with kids. Continue reading
N. Winn 6th Graders Share African-Style Stew
North Winneshiek School sixth grade students picked vegetables from the school garden to cook an African-style one-pot meal. Adding our onions, tomatoes, peppers and kale to purchased foods, they made sweet potato, peanut butter and lentil stew to finish a multidisciplinary unit on Africa. Continue reading
North Winn Buddies: Energy Booster Salad
North Winn Kindergartners and Third Graders, working as buddies, recently made salads that contained many kinds of food. Each buddy pair selected one ingredient from each of several categories, and voted for their favorite recipe. Continue reading
Savory Soup Season
It is one of my favorite times of the year, soup season! Soup heals the mind, body and soul. It is also one of the most simple and versatile dishes. As long as you have the base (olive oil, onions, carrots and herbs), the rest is up to your imagination. Continue reading
Gardens, Tomatoes, and Salsa: Oh my!
It’s been a busy harvest season at St. Joe’s! Our gardens have been bursting with produce and it’s been great to get out and learn as we harvest yummy veggies! Continue reading
This Holiday Season, Win Over Your Kale with a Nice Massage
A few weeks ago I was giving a Stone Soup Lesson at N. Winneshiek where we were using all the left over vegetables from the final harvest of our school garden to make a huge “Stone Soup” for national Food Day. The kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade classes all helped to make the soup and read the story in advance. Students were chopping carrots, potatoes, parsley, onions and thrashing beans. Continue reading
Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
What is the month of November without our favorite fall dishes? To me, eating seasonally in the fall means stuffing myself full of all types of squash as well as roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes. The hardest part of my job as an AmeriCorps member is to get people as excited about eating delicious, local food, as I am. What better way to start, than to have a local sweet potato taste test! I ordered sweet potatoes off the Iowa Food Hub and while I waited until they were delivered, I brainstormed about how I should prepare them. I have never been a fan of sweet, sweet potatoes. All of the marshmallows and brown sugar are not my ideal toppings. I enjoy my sweet potatoes with a savory edge. So I decided to prepare them with olive oil, butter, salt, pepper and rosemary. The rosemary filled the entire cafeteria with a homey, Thanksgiving feel. Continue reading
Homemade Ranch
I walked into my doctor’s office early in the morning, barely awake. The nurse behind the counter greeted me warmly. A pink sparkle on the desk caught my eye. I stared blankly, it took me a few seconds to recognize the pink energy beverage she was drinking. This is my least favorite part about being a FoodCorps service member – casually observing the eating habits of others. Whether in the grocery store or restaurant, I unconsciously take note of what others are eating. Continue reading
