VEGETABLES

Today the campers learned about vegetables

Today's focus was the importance of adding to your daily diet lots of brightly colored
vegetables.  Cauliflower comes in different colors--green and purple--as well as white, which makes a very tasty puree that can be a substitute for mashed potatoes. Some of the campers never tasted eggplant and liked it once it got the Parmesan treatment. In addition to potato salad, tomato-basil bruschetta topping on toasted French bread, vegetable chili, sweet potato pudding--correction: pone here in Louisiana, pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes and oops!  too much sugar pumpkin chocolate chip bars, the campers each made themselves a good old baked potato that is good at any time of the day.  Potato toppings included bacon bits, sour cream, shredded cheddar, minced shallot and salt and pepper.  Wildcard options on the white board gave them lots more cooking options and we had an array of stir fry dishes that included vegetables and beef, chicken and shrimp.  The cornbread sticks were a huge hit--and so cute! No one left hungry today--and the colorful plates were scraped clean--except for what went into the compost bin and for Ms. Mila's chickens.