What's Cooking?

[ness]

I hear them too.

I also hear a lot of funny stories, as I'm sure you do. 

Teacher asks the kids, 'If you see a gun, do you touch it?'

Kid says,'No!'

Teacher says, 'Why not?'

Kid says, 'Fingerprints!'

[rps]

Sorry about the rant last night, guys. I am jut so tired of some parts of the "school business." I don't mean locally, so much, but state wide and nationally as well.

(All the rest of the above post got deleted. I will move on.)

For dinner tonight I an using the last of the roast chicken left overs. I made a homemade chicken stock and cream sauce, heavy on the Parmesan, with onion, sweet pepper, celery, and carrot. I added fresh sage and thyme from my deck garden. I have bowtie pasta to cook in more stock. The sauce will receive peas before service over the pasta. Ozark leftover cooking tonight.

[grizwilson]

 

Since it was mothers day, my wife chose steak on he grill with friends.  So 6 Tbones gave it their all on grill, a little salt, pepper grlic powder combo and some heat.  Sweet potatoes in the microwave, and corn on the cob.  Salad in a bag to go with.  Dessert, vanilla ice cream with some strawberries that a couple hours earlier were happily soaking up the may sunshine.  Twas a good day.  Oh and then had to make another batch of strawberry freezer jam with the rest of the berries.

We did the same without the freezer jam, but we added homemade ice cream

[Chief Grey Bear]

I agree school lunch should be free for all. If the district had problems with funding for lunch, raise the price of entry to sporting events to $5. It's been like $3 since Hector was a pup. Trim some of those field trips. You don't have to take a trip every week. 

And I know there was a lot of grief when  Michelle Obama tweaked lunches to make them healthier. I liked that. But most lunch programs made it even worse by not hiring cooks that knew how to cook. It has been proven over and over that you can make great tasting lunches that kids will eat using the exact same ingredients. You just need a leader that knows how to cook. Is there not any criteria for hiring cooks at school? 

[MOPanfisher]

Chief, very little.  If they have experience it is usually at a nursing home.  I agree basic healthy lunches can be made that are good tasting.  Many kids are so used to eating out of a can or lunchable type food they truly don't know what to do with cooked food.  Our church used to take hams and turkeys to homes we knew didn't have much, we finally quit when we learned that most of it rotted because they had no clue how to cook.it, went to precooked food or gift certificates at local businesses.  Dont know what the going wage for a school cafeteria cook at a rural school but I suspect it is right around minimum wage.

[Mitch f]

Not recently but this pic reminds me of a fantastic trip with Greasy B....yea we ate well on the gravel bar that night.

[MOPanfisher]

This raises a valid question.  Why do steaks cooked on a open grI'll over a drift wood fire taste so darn good.  Is it just the curcumstances.  Hungry, tired, good day, friends, sounds of the creek, smell.of he smoke.  Don't know for sure why but sure is good eats that way.

[grizwilson]

 

Since it was mothers day, my wife chose steak on he grill with friends.  So 6 Tbones gave it their all on grill, a little salt, pepper grlic powder combo and some heat.  Sweet potatoes in the microwave, and corn on the cob.  Salad in a bag to go with.  Dessert, vanilla ice cream with some strawberries that a couple hours earlier were happily soaking up the may sunshine.  Twas a good day.  Oh and then had to make another batch of strawberry freezer jam with the rest of the berries.

Would you share your freezer jam recipe?

[Flysmallie]

 

Would you share your freezer jam recipe?

Only if you promise to make enough for everyone. 

[Flysmallie]

 

My best yet. 

Good looking pizza Ness! How do you like that Kettle Pizza attachment? Looks like it's getting the temps where they need to be.