Green is the Theme

The Garrison School first graders turned into some awesome budding chefs this month. Chef Laurie Gershgorn from Healthy Culinary Creations brought in a basketful of spring greens, asparagus, beets and spinach and put the young chefs to work. Every child had a task to do.

This month's feature was Spinach. But Chef Laurie always has other recipes up her sleeve. On this day, the kids got two for the price of one:

Spinach Frittata and a Spring Greens Salad.

And these were the tasks at hand:

Peeling and grating the beets.

Chopping garlic, removing the stems from the kale, and tearing the beet greens.

Breaking asparagus spears.

Beating the eggs.

Squeezing lemons for the dressing.

And best of all...

Eating their delicious culinary creations!

When we were finishing up, and the last of the frittata was long gone, I heard one boy say, "I wish we could have Chef in the Classroom everyday!"

Now that's a precious moment.

 Click here for the recipe.