Sweet Rose Creamery Makes Banana Ice Cream in Ms. Bihari's Class

Yesterday Chris and Bella from Sweet Rose Creamery visited Ms. Bihari's 3rd grade class and made banana ice cream with the students.  Sweet Rose is part of the Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group owned by Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan who live in Santa Monica Canyon. The Pacific Palisades store is on Monument.

Chris asked the children the name the main ingredients in ice cream. They stated eggs, cream, milk and sugar.  Sweet Rose uses organic ingredients and purchases many of them at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.

The children participated in making banana ice cream. They combined the liquid mixtures, broke the bananas in pieces, added sugar, vanilla and salt, helped blend the mixtures and tasted the mix at two times during the mixing process. Chris and Bella had brought a small ice cream mixing machine so the children could see the process on a small scale.

Since the mixing in the machine would take 90 minutes, Chris and Bella brought along some pints of banana ice cream and some brownie bites for the children to taste.  The children enjoyed their generous snack!

Thanks to Lily, Debbie and Winter for assisting.

CC Consalvo Makes a Frittata with Ms. Wilkinson's 3rd Graders

CC Consalvo, a holistic chef and Palisades resident, participated in Marquez's Visiting Chef program on Thursday. CC is a personal holistic chef and wellness counselor who works with many celebrities and now Marquez 3rd graders in Ms. Wilkinson's class.  She emphasizes eating what's in season. Her website is www.wellrestored.com.

Yesterday the children made a vegetable frittata with CC's help.  The children cut broccoli, zucchini and yellow peppers.  They also stirred the eggs. Volunteer parents cut onions and potatoes. The children also added fresh parsley and thyme to the eggs during cooking.

CC explained what she was doing and why to the students as the ingredients were added to the electric skillet.

The steps:

1. Heat butter and oil
2. Add onions and potatoes
3. Add broccoli, peppers and zucchini
4. Add eggs and parmesan cheese
5. Add seasonings
6. Let set
7. Cut and enjoy

The ingredients

Each student cut some of the vegetables.

CC added the broccoli, zucchini and peppers to the skillet after first sauteing the onions and potatoes for a few minutes 

The delicious frittata

All of the children ate this from our reusable plates.

Thanks to Gelson's for providing the ingredients.

Also thanks to the volunteer parents-Nona, Shelby, Christine and Winter

Caprese Salad

Last week Ms. Farrell's 3rd grade class made caprese salad using basil from the basil plant donated to them by Chef Sam of Tratto.

We've Received a Sponsorship from Gardening Know How!

We recently received a sponsorship from Gardening Know How, a website and blog run by gardeners for gardeners.  We are one of 20 school or community gardens to receive the sponsorship. This will enable us to expand our edible garden program.

Gardening Know How has three different websites and a blog devoted to gardening. It is a fount of information.  There are links about edible and ornamental gardens, garden problems, indoor plants, composting and much more.  Check out the home page here: www.gardeningknowhow.com.