Fattoush

The days are getting shorter, it rained on and off all week and all of the sudden the light has changed. This week the younger students K-2 made Fattoush - a vegetable salad with stale pita bread.  We used pita chips, cucumbers, roast zucchini, tomatoes, roast peppers, olives, fresh mozzarella and feta cheese.  You can use any combination of fresh and roasted vegetables in this salad, I like to use eggplant in this salad but thought that it would not be popular with the kids.  I have added a link for a recipe from King Arthur Flour in case you want to see a recipe
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/fattoush-recipe

A Persimmon Tree 

I am always sad when summer peaches are absolutely and completely gone but they are replaced by other wonderful fruits like pomegranates and persimmons.  The older students made a green salad with pomegranate seeds, pumpkin seeds, persimmons, oranges and avocados with a balsamic vinegar dressing.  I think that about 20 kids might have eaten three pounds of lettuce so either the salad tasted good or they were ravenous or possibly both.

Kale, Onions, Celery and Collards growing in the Peralta Gardens

We used lettuce and greens from the garden for the salads 

Salad with Cheddar and Apples

I teach the older kids cooking from 4:15 PM until 5:00 PM.  That late in the afternoon they are so hungry that just about anything tastes good to them but this salad actually was delicious and they ate a lot of it.  These are the ingredients that we used; you can mix them together in the quantities that you like.

Lettuce

Grated Cheddar Cheese

Thinly Sliced Apples

Chopped Celery

Jicama Slices

We used a dressing with lemon juice, lemon peel, rice wine vinegar and olive oil, salt and honey.

Pasta Salad with Greens

Working with children, recipes are similar to the Pirates Code - that is they are guidelines so to speak.  So I will explain the ingredients and how we handled them but quantities are vague.  Also at home most people are not making enough to feed 20 plus kids at 5:00 PM.  If I did give quantities it might be an amount like as much grated cheese as 4 kids can make in 5 minutes.

This salad was really popular with the kids - they actually seem to love any pasta salad but this one was exceptionally tasty. It included -

Cooked Pasta

Cooked Chopped Greens (we used a combination of Swiss chard, collards and red kale from the gardens)

Grated Parmesan Cheese

Lemon Juice
Salt
Garlic

Olive Oil

Tomatoes

Cooked Peas