The First-hand experience of FoodCorps Service Member Sarah Stowell
In early October in the garden at Nokomis Elementary School several
fifth graders were exploring when they found the crooked neck squash they had planted
last school year. They wanted to try eating the squash so bad that several
students asked to try it raw! I warned them it was much better cooked but they
tried it anyways saying how good it was but agreed it would be better if
cooked. So they asked when we could cook
it. Having never cooked with squash before I was a little nervous about making
sure we prepared it in a way the students would like. When talking to the
principal, John McCann, about the plan to cook the squash with the students I
found out that he was not personally a squash fan although he did agree to try
it when we made it.
After doing some research on squash recipes and talking with
the students we decided to make squash bread! Over the course of several days
6-8 students from each of the 4th and 5th grade classes
and several of the 3rd grade classes came to bake a loaf of bread to
share with their classmates.
In order to limit the amount of processed sugar and to improve
the texture we used raisins and unsweetened apple sauce as our secret
ingredients!
Everybody who tried the bread, including the principal, said
they loved it!
I would like to thank John McCann for making
this experience possible!
No comments:
Post a Comment