{"id":196,"date":"2010-05-27T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heatofthekitchen.org\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:38:17","slug":"the-harvest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heatofthekitchen.org\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"The Harvest May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A corner of our school garden<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0thanks to the creative efforts of Urban Sprouts!<\/span><\/div>\n

It is the last week of classes and our garden at school has been bursting into bloom: poppies, artichokes, cauliflower, chard, parsley, nasturtium. \u00a0Just in time for the bees in our new beehive to feel welcome.<\/p>\n

We picked some of the chard on a rainy Monday, a few edible blossoms, the mint and a few herbs, trying not to strip the plants on one hand or harvest too little to allow everyone to taste on the other.<\/p>\n

We headed inside and made some fresh mint tea, delicious! \u00a0And started another harvest, talking about what worked this year in our Culinary Arts class, and what didn’t work (of course while keeping our hands busy making a filling for empanadas with our harvest). \u00a0Here are some of the responses:<\/p>\n

Curriculum Keeper #1: That meal we cooked last week:<\/p>\n

Chicken Piccatta
\n\"\"<\/a>Mashed Potatoes
\nChard and Chard Stem Sauteed with Garlic<\/p>\n

They liked it for its ease and deliciousness (“We could make this at home”). \u00a0I was stopped for a quick review on the spot, a double-check on how to cook chard this way.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Keeper #2: All the pastas, and our housemade chicken sausage that went into the tomato sauce. Extrusion and mortar & pestles are cool. They have been cool for a very, very long time.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Keeper #3: Pastel Tres Leches – and this was from those new to this classic but was also chorused by those who already knew this dessert. \u00a0After our weeks of making desserts for events, I was surprised they chose this easy, refreshingly sweet cake.<\/p>\n

Some suggestions:<\/p>\n