This article contains downloadable recipes and virtual cooking classes that pair with our Friends of the Children grocery bags! It will be updated on a weekly basis, so be sure to keep checking it out.
These recipes utilize ingredients that flourish in gardens during Washington's spring, like mint and radishes. Learn how to cook Southeast Asian-Style Radish Salad, Potato Salad for Spring, and Rice and Chicken Salad with Peas and Mint. We're hungry just writing this!
“For me, fermentation is a health regimen, a gourmet art, a multicultural adventure, a form of activism, and a spiritual path, all rolled into one.” --Sandor Katz, Wild Fermentation
Straight from Maia's kitchen! This post contains a video in which our education director, Maia Bernstein, shows us a few fermentation projects that she's been working on and explains what makes them bubble. Preserve fruits and veggies in your own home today using the recipes included.
Green Plate Special's Family Bread & Butter Day on March 28th was cancelled to keep flattening that COVID-19 curve, but we still want you to enjoy your own Family Bread & Butter Day at home! This article walks you through a brief history of grains, the different parts of a whole grain, the basic ingredients of bread, the history and science of making butter, and bread and butter recipes that you can enjoy in your own kitchen.
This article contains two of our favorite program recipes that use apples: Kale, Cabbage, and Apple Warm-Slaw and Simple Apple Crisp! If you're enticed by the sound of this, consider buying wholesale apples from Collins Family Orchards in support of their local, family-owned business. It has been deeply impacted by COVID-19 with the closure of the Seattle Farmers Market.