Category: Food and Recipes

Food Challenge #3: Apple Cider Vinaigrette

Just in time for the Fall season… this Apple Cider Vinaigrette salad dressing is very light and very tasty on a mixed green salad. Plus, it is super easy to make and you can store it in a glass jar and keep it in your cupboard for weeks, if it lasts that long. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup organic apple cider vinegar
  • 1 1/2 tsp dijon mustard
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/8 tsp dried oregano
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/3 cup safflower or canola oil

Instructions:

  1. In glass jar, combine apple cider vinegar, dijon mustard, sugar, salt, pepper and oregano. Close top of jar and mix well.
  2. Add olive oil and safflower oil and shake vigorously.
  3. Serve over Organic Spring Mix.

Grade: A

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Coming to a close…

Well, there are only two more Friday’s left for the Monroe Farmers Market, today and next Friday.

Food Jules will be there today with Organic Chicken Empanadas, Apple Pie Crumb Muffins, Pumpkin Muffins and Apple Walnut Bread. Besides, all of our delicious Jams, Hot Fudge Sauce and Granola.

Come early to get your goodies and to avoid the possibility of rain!

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Arts & Imagination

The Kids cooking program at Stepney Elementary will begin today, October 11th as part of the Arts & Imagination program.

Our six week session will be based on “Nutritious and Delicious” menu items, from starters to meals to sweet treats! Everything made with whole grain, nutritious ingredients that taste great too! We will use as much seasonal, local and organic produce as available. The kids will learn some basic cooking skills, measurements, health benefits of eating everything that grows in our local gardens, composting and most of all, how to be adventurous in their eating habits.

At the end of the session, all the kids will receive a mini-cookbook with all of the recipes cooked during our program so they can enjoy these recipes at home with their family.

 

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Prize

The goal of the Food Jules Cookbook Challenge is to compile an AMAZING group of recipes that are guaranteed to be delicious and nutritious so I need 100% participation. Therefore, I’ve decided to give away a PRIZE to everyone that completes this challenge with me. Here are the rules:

1. You have to test the recipe EXACTLY as it is written and provide your feedback along with your own recommendations and grade – needs more moisture, needs more sweetness, it’s perfect etc. This will allow all us to ensure the recipe is accurate.

Feedback from your children is an added PLUS.

2. The recipe should be tested within one week of the post. It would be great if a bunch of us tested the recipe at the same time and were able to perfect it together. That is what I call TEAM WORK!

That’s it, just two simple rules. I know you can do it! I will post a challenge once or twice a week, so not to overwhelm all of us with recipes.

At the end of the challenge, we will have created a NEW, DELICIOUS and NUTRITIOUS cookbook for all of us and we will have done it TOGETHER. So, let’s make this happen! Maybe, one day it will get published in some format and all of your names will appear in the list of credits. If not, then at least we all have a new Cookbook Bible on our bookshelf and we won’t get bored of the same old recipes.

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about the prize… I’ll keep that a secret for a little while. Who’s in it with me?

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Challenge #2: Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

Well, I was going to post recipes once a week for our Food Jules Cookbook Challenge, but OMG…. this Broccoli and Cheddar Soup is so DELICIOUS that I had to post it for everyone today!!!! I have to give the credit to my daughter, Lilliana. She saw the recipe on the cover of the Food Network magazine and asked me to make it for dinner. Well, it is so very creamy and so very yummy. You don’t even need to add the cheese at the end, that’s how creamy it is (but we added it for extra nutrition and extra deliciousness). The kids already devoured it and it’s not even dinner time!

Here’s my suggestion. Run out to the grocery store right now and make it tonight for dinner. Trust me you will be thanking me tomorrow!

Broccoli and Cheddar Soup (photo to come later)

Ingredients:

  • 2 tblsp unsalted organic butter
  • 2 tblsp olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 2 organic celery stalks, chopped
  • 2 organic carrots, peeled and chopped
  • 3 medium organic potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 2 large broccoli crowns
  • 1 (32oz) organic chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1 cup organic half and half
  • 1 cup organic cheddar cheese, shredded
  • salt & pepper

Directions:

  1.  Heat olive oil and butter in large pot. Add onion, celery and carrots and cook until softened, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes and 1 broccoli crown, chopped, and cook for another 5 minutes.
  2. Add chicken broth and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 20 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
  3. Using a hand blender, puree until smooth. Add half and half and other broccoli crown, finely chopped (you just want to see small pieces of broccoli in the soup) and cook for 10 minutes until broccoli is soft.
  4. If soup is too thick, add more half and half. Add cheddar cheese and mix well.

Grade: A

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