Head Cheese (part I)

Head of Pig

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The Kale Vacuum

Last night I taught the thirteenth class of my last ‘food literacy and cooking skills’ series. By the end of May I will have completed 2 sessions – 4 series – 16 weeks of classes. Each group of families has taught me as much as I may have taught them. And last night’s group was no exception.
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Eggs (weekly menu 23)

Eggs!

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The Food Curriculum Project (part II) “The Menu”

If you read this blog, I assume you watch or have seen episodes of Top Chef, Iron Chef or Hell’s Kitchen. For those of you that plead ignorance, I am referring to popular television shows that thrive on competitive cooking. In each of these shows contestants are given a set of requirements and constraints, under which they must prepare a meal for x amount of people. The experience of cooking in that environment is both daunting and ridiculous because the scenarios are so extreme.

Well it turns out that the “healthy eating and meal planning class” is like an episode of Top Chef.
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Where have all the simple meals gone? (weekly menu 12)

For more than two years now I have planned weekly menus. The goals have changed over time, but the quality of life that results from my semi-obsessive planning habits remain choice and flavorful. Sometimes we find a theme for the menu- an ethnicity, a region, a cooking technique, a desire for cheeses or meats, etc. Throughout this process of reading recipes and planning feasts at home, I have noticed one big shift – my conception of a “simple meal.”
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