{"id":5097,"date":"2015-11-09T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2016-04-07T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:09:07","slug":"a-note-from-chef-anna-november-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-chef-anna-november-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from chef Anna: November 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"Dear CSA Members,\r\n\r\nLast week I had the pleasure of teaching a cooking class at Nixon\u00a0Elementary. There was a point in my life where I was a full time educator for\u00a0elementary to middle school age children, and cooking with the kids at Nixon\u00a0Elementary made me remember how excited and present children can be about learning.\r\n\r\nIn the Bay Area, it seems that many children are accustomed to eating\u00a0healthy food. But, there are still many children that have palates restricted to\u00a0sweet and salty. Changing children\u2019s minds on how they perceive healthy food,\u00a0especially vegetables, is very important to me. Therefore, whenever I am assigned\u00a0to do a cooking class, I like to teach recipes that showcase seasonal produce.\r\n\r\nFor this cooking class I wanted to highlight the seasonal ingredients from\u00a0Frog Hollow Farm. So I harvested a handful of beautiful pomegranates, collected\u00a0some deliciously sweet, tart and crisp Pink Lady apples and brought along some\u00a0of our buttery extra virgin olive oil. To complement these ingredients I decided to\u00a0go with the beloved green, kale. I love using kale for cooking demos with kids for\u00a0a couple reasons. The first being that most kids have heard of kale, and while a\u00a0few love it, others think they hate it. Secondly, because it is a tough, sturdy green\u00a0that is made more palatable by being torn and massaged. Which is perfect when\u00a0there are 44 little hands grabbing at the greens.\r\n\r\nWe divided the kids into seven groups. Each group made their own salad\u00a0following the process of de-stemming, tearing, and massaging the kale, de-seeding the pomegranates, and grating the cheese. I then showed them a quick demo\u00a0of how to make a healthy salad dressing using Frog Hollow Farm olive oil, shallots, a little vinegar, and the extra pomegranate juice. I went around to each group\u00a0and sprinkled a little salt and drizzled some dressing over their salads. The kids\u00a0mixed the ingredients together and the teachers helped to serve them the salads\u00a0that they had prepared.\r\n\r\nAt the beginning of the class one of the teachers asked the kids \u201cwho\u00a0likes kale?\u201d some of the kids raised their hands and others made a stink face. At\u00a0the end of the class most of the kids had cleaned their plates and were excited\u00a0about teaching their parents how to prepare the recipe. I am gaining the reputation\u00a0of the salad lady at their school, and I am okay with that!\r\n\r\n- Chef Anna","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear CSA Members, Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a cooking class at Nixon\u00a0Elementary. There was a point in my life where I was a full time educator for\u00a0elementary to middle school age children, and cooking with the kids at Nixon\u00a0Elementary made me remember how excited and present children can be about learning. 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