Healthy Holiday Chocolate Truffles
Looking for a fun hands on cooking activity that doesn’t overload your little ones with processed sugar? Think beyond sugar cookies this season and try your hand at these easy triple chocolate truffles. Triple Chocolate Truffles Makes about 10 truffles 7...
Lots of Latkes and Applesauce
Latkes are a symbol of abundance. In Judaic tradition, oil that was seemingly enough to last only a single evening burned for a total of eight days. We commemorate this astonishing event by celebrating foods that require oil to cook—the coating at the bottom of a pan...
Serve up Some Simplicity: Sesame Noodles
Sometimes in the midst of a busy winter season we need to take a moment to peel, slice, or julienne some vegetables. Prep a large batch of sauce and keep soba or somen noodles on hand in your cupboard. This recipe can be assembled in...
Kitchen Tips and Tricks: Knife Safety
Once a month, we will be sharing tips and tricks from our curriculum that can be applied to cooking at home with your kids. Check out our previous post on cleanliness! Try This At Home Our ultimate goal is for students to be able to replicate the skills learned in...
Body-Building to Legume Love: ATS educator Ryan Andrews
Where are you from? Born and raised in Colorado. I’ve also lived in Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, and now Connecticut. Which ATS classes do you teach/what ages? I teach middle schoolers in the Bronx. What led to your interest in food? Competitive bodybuilding,...
Three Sisters Tacos
The Three Sisters The three sisters crops—corn (or maize), squash, and beans came to be cultivated by Native Americans in Mexico as long as 7,500 years ago. While Native Americans originally relied on wild foraged food for sustenance, overpopulation and other societal...
“Recipes are like Stories” ATS Educator Soni Strandell
Life Skills, Knife Skills. As a trained Chef and food educator, Soni Strandell believes firmly in the power of proper tools. At a workshop she led for Allergic to Salad in partnership with Garden Kitchen Lab, Soni taught her students how to cut safely and efficiently...
Vegetable Korma and Curry Powder
Cold days call for curry. Although this spicy flavorful blend originated in the hot climate of India, and for some of us it is a staple year round, there is something particularly satisfying about the warming blend of spices on a crisp afternoon when the sunlight is...