Category: Cooking Classes

Food Jules will again be volunteering our time to teach a Cooking Workshop as part of this year’s Minds in Motion program on Saturday, December 1st.

Minds in Motion is an enrichment and education event for students K-8, and features hands-on, fast-paced, high-interest workshops for gifted and high-ability children. This program is part of the Connecticut Association for Gifted Children which supports and advocates for Connecticut’s gifted, talented, and high-potential children of diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds so they are identified and provided access and opportunities to an appropriate education by personnel trained and qualified to meet their cognitive, social, and emotional special needs.

This year’s Minds in Motion workshops will be held at Masuk High School in Monroe, CT. Register online.

Well, it’s that time of the year again, Back to School!

Starting this week, after school enrichment classes are underway and Food Jules is pleased to announce we will be teaching at schools in the Trumbull, Monroe and Shelton districts. This semester, the students in Trumbull and Shelton will be learning about the five food groups (www.choosemyplate.org) and creating their own “plate” filled with vegetables, fruits, protein, grains and dairy! In Monroe, we will be Celebrating the Harvest by creating meals using this Fall’s harvest produce such as pumpkins, apples, squash and more!

Each week will be full of new recipes, nutrition facts and lots of fun in the kitchen. Eating their five food groups will help kids do their best in school, have more energy and grow up healthier and strong. Plus, we’ll teach kids how to make it all taste absolutely delicious and have a blast doing it!

Our full schedule of classes has been updated for the Fall season. Looking forward to seeing all of my students again and meeting new ones!

I know what you are thinking… a Green Smoothie, is that going to taste any good? Let me tell you, my kids drank two batches of it last week, they loved it. Today, I introduced this recipe to the kids in my cooking class and they raved about it to their parents! It really is very delicious.

The baby spinach makes it the green color, which is the fun part, but you don’t taste it at all, you just taste the sweetness of the fruit. It is delicious AND nutritious! You have to try it this summer and feel free to mix it up with any fruit that is in season.

Enjoy!

Sound familiar? Seems like a lifetime ago when I used to watch Popeye the Sailor Man!

Frankly, I was never a fan of eating plain cooked spinach. It is just too bland for my “big flavor” taste buds. Besides, there are just so many more flavorful ways to eat spinach, especially when you add cheese to it!

I have many favorite Spinach and Cheese recipes, including Spinach & Cheese Tortellini, Spinach Frittata, Spinach Lasagna Rolls, Tortellini Soup with Spinach, Spinach & Cheese Phyllo Bites and now this Spinach & Tomato Quiche!

This quiche recipe was designed to be simple enough for the kids to make and delicious enough for adults and kids to want to eat everyday!

Enjoy.

I know it’s been a while since my last post but it has been very busy with classes and life!

Currently, we are in the middle of our spring session at Stepney Elementary as part of the Arts & Imagination program. This time we are learning how to create MyPlate using the five food groups. The children are learning all about creative ways of eating their Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Protein and Dairy!

A couple of weeks ago, we learned about the two types of Grains (my favorite subject), the Whole Grain and the Refined Grain. As part of the lesson, the kids read some nutrition labels on the back of cereal boxes, crackers, bread crumbs and frozen waffles. They were all so surprised by the number of ingredients in these products, as well as the fact that they didn’t recognize half of them, neither do I! It is truly important to read those labels so you know what you are putting into your growing body.

We were on spring break last week so when we returned to class yesterday, I was so pleased to hear a story shared by one of my students. He had gone grocery shopping with his mom over break and she picked up some white bread and he pointed out to his mother that white bread is a refined grain and not as healthy as the whole wheat bread so they ended up buying the whole wheat bread. I was so very proud of him and I am so proud of all my students for all their attention and enthusiasm in these classes. Hopefully, these classes will be instrumental in helping them to make better eating choices.

This is exactly why I enjoy teaching these cooking classes. Kids are simply amazing!