Recipes Submitted
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Black-Bean Quesadillas
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Tortilla Soup
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Whole Wheat Banana
Chocolate Chip Muffins
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Other Delicious Dishes
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Curried Butternut Squash and Apple Soup |
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Green Beans and Smoked Turkey Sausage |
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Hummus and Pita Toasts |
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New Orleans Red Beans and Brown Rice |
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Springtime Pasta |
Sligo's submissions to the Recipes for Healthy Kids Challenge.
Sligo's team consists of four members. Marla Caplon, director of MCPS's food and nutrition service, serves as the school nutrition professional. I am the chef member. Sixth grader Alexandra D. is the student member, and her mother, Theresa D., is the community member.
With just minutes to spare before the December 30, 5:00 p.m. deadline, we submitted one recipe in each of the three categories:
- Dark Green and Orange Vegetables: Tortilla Soup includes 1/4 cup carrots per serving.
- Whole Grains: Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins. The taste test muffins included walnuts, but because of the seriousness of nut allergies, we substituted mini chocolate chips in the entry.
- Dried beans and peas: Black Bean Quesadillas. This was the recipe Sligo liked best of all.
These recipes were the top-ranking three out of the nine taste tests conducted at Sligo in the two weeks preceding the winter break.
The judging period begins today and ends on May 15, 2011. The first cut will made by Feb. 28 and will determine the top 10 recipes for each category. These recipes will be published in a cookbook.
By March 1, five semi-finalists will be announced for each category. Between March 1, 2011 and May 15, 2011, U.S. Department of Agriculture representatives will visit the semi-finalist schools to meet the recipe challenge teams and taste the recipe prepared as part of each school’s lunch for that day.
Online public voting for the Popular Choice Award begins on March 1 and ends on May 15.
All prizes are monetary awards that go to the school food service. Once we are semi finalists, I'll write again to inform you and Sligo parents as to what to expect next.
I am optimistic that Sligo will do very well in this competition. Ms. Caplon, Mr. Rhodes and Sligo cafeteria manager Ms. Mary Belin have been terrifically supportive.
Mrs. Sheila Crye
Youth Culinary Educatoryoung chefs, inc.