Schedule of Activities:

Day 1:

Kitchen Basics: Chopping vegetables, proofing yeast, making stock, kneading dough

What we learned:

On the menu: Minestrone, Chicken Soup with Pasta, Honey Wheat Rolls

Day 2

Visit to Elmhurst Greenmarket (41st Avenue between 80-81st Streets)

Baking skills: Whisking, creaming butter and sugar, cutting butter into flour, measuring

What we learned:

On the menu: Blueberry Scones, Red Velvet Cupcakes, Salty Brownies

Day 3

Kitchen skills: yeast conversion (granular yeast to cake yeast), tossing pizza dough

What we learned:

On the menu: Pizza made from scratch–pepperoni, white pizza, basil.

Day 4

Kitchen skills: chopping bell peppers and garlic, folding, brownies take three!

What we learned:

On the menu: Cornbread, Chili, Brownies, Italian bread

Day 5

Kitchen skills: boiling and shelling hard-boiled eggs, piping skills, slicing and skewering chicken

On the menu: Hors d’oeuvres (Chicken Skewers, Deviled Eggs, Crostini with Basil Ricotta and Grape Tomato)

PRESENTATION!

Resources:

PDF Vegi cookbook for starters
__https://41aac1a9acbe9b97bcebc10e0dd7cb61ef11502c.googledrive.com/host/0B9c5aT4eSlRfMzVpbC0xemtkSlE/from-scratch.pdf__

GMO foods and how they affect us:
__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism__
__http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/__
__http://www.infowars.com/scientific-american-bashes-gmo-labeling-as-unscientific/__
__http://www.responsibletechnology.org/10-Reasons-to-Avoid-GMOs__

Here are some videos that may be insightful:
__http://youtu.be/PUspRBt7Kp4__
__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OedIuaZto&list=PLD7A0518D7DA9285C&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20JSON%20Parse%20error%3A%20Unexpected%20EOF%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dr3OedIuaZto%26list%3DPLD7A0518D7DA9285C)__
__http://youtu.be/Us42DZO0NX0__

Ethical Eating

–Locavore
__http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/06/04/chefs-with-issues-buying-food-is-a-political-act/__

Supermarket Shortage, “Food Deserts,” and “Food Swamps”
__http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/takes-grocery-store-eliminate-food-desert/__

__http://theblinker.com/mainpage/2013/07/03/the-food-desert-you-know-nothing-about/__

Shopping for Healthy Food in the City:
__http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/25/local-markets-to-buy-organic-food-in-new-york/__
__https://41aac1a9acbe9b97bcebc10e0dd7cb61ef11502c.googledrive.com/host/0B9c5aT4eSlRfMzVpbC0xemtkSlE/good-and-cheap.pdf__

Cooking Healthy On a Budget:
__http://snap.nal.usda.gov/resource-library/handouts-and-web-sites/meal-planning-shopping-and-budgeting__