No tears today at the Garrison School

Today the Garrison Union Free School's kindergarteners got to make onion dip with Chef Shelley Boris from Fresh Company. Shelley showed them how a strong and spicy onion that can make any chef teary-eyed becomes sweet and caramelized after cooking it slowly in a pan. Then the kids mixed the cooked onions in a bowl with sour cream to make a creamy onion dip to eat with raw root veggies.

There was lots of munching on raw carrots, parsnips and turnips, but no tears today for the kindergarteners at the Garrison School!

Cindy's Tuscan Kale Soup!

Today I visited the cafeteria to see how the apple cakes went. They flew, with kids begging me for seconds and thirds. 

Then I got to try something really special in the kitchen: Mrs. Geller's class harvested a bunch of kale from Haldane's garden and presented it to Cindy. She made kale chips and Tuscan Kale and bean soup. Absolutely delicious! She will be serving the soup to the high school kids on Friday. 

Bravo Cindy for making food from our own garden!

Soup's On!

Did you know sweet potatoes were once used to make postage stamps?

Well, Chef Mark made something a little bit more tasty in today's Chef in the Classroom visit at Haldane with Mrs. Isler's 2nd grade class and Mrs. Pray's 3rd graders.

Sweet potato soup was on the menu for today – both vegan and dairy. They started by peeling and cutting up apples and cooking them in water to make an apple broth. When the apples were very soft, they blended them until pureed. Then they cut up the sweet potatoes and boiled them in water until tender.

To make the vegan soup, they heated up the apple broth with some fresh rosemary and thyme. Once the herbs were steeped, they removed them and added the sweet potatoes and blended everything together.

For the dairy version, instead of the apple broth, they steeped the herbs in milk, then blended the sweet potatoes with that.

Last of all: Maple syrup and salt and pepper.









YUM!!

For more Fun Facts about Sweet Potatoes, go to the Veggie of the Month page on this blog and click on Sweet Potatoes.