Our second Challenge column

Winter Salad Response

One more response from last week's challenge...

Here is my favorite winter salad.

Ingredients:
2 cans of whole beets drained and shredded
1/4 cup shredded onion

Dressing:
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup vinegar
1 Tbsp horseradish
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Mix dressing well or shake in a jar. Put shredded onion and beets in a bowl and toss with dressing. Enjoy !

Jenny Hartman (Meadows)

Our first Food Challenge response from the community

G2G Food Challenge - Week 1!

International Literacy Day 2014

Not Everything is a Piece of Cake

 

Sept 8  International Literacy Day 

Sept 9  FASD Awareness Day

 

 

This years theme... Not Everything is a Piece of Cake

How much fun can be had celebrating literacy and sharing FASD awareness?... A lot when you add in a cake walk with many treats and live music.  Thank to all our sponsors for supporting the cake walk on Main Street in Smithers... Katrina at Sawyers So Good Cupcakes made 150 mini cupcakes for us on her day off!  Yummy contributions were provided by 2 Sisters Café, Heavenly Grinds, Schimmels, Nature's Pantry, Rustica Bakery and Sweet & Savory Culinary Creations.  Thank you to all the volunteers and locals who came and walked the streets handing out cupcakes and the community for having fun in the cake walk.  Tracy won the grand prize.. a full carrot cake.

Beyond the kitchen...

Imagine heading to elementary school and kick-starting your brain into action with cinnamon apples, watermelon, tasty bagels and cheese, yoghurt, hardboiled eggs, friends, books, family and music. 

Healthy eating is lifestyle literacy, and the young students of Walnut Park Elementary School embraced the monthly Breakfast & Books program with passion and appreciation. 

 

 

Initiated by Lynn, the librarian at Walnut Park, and Jody from Smithers Community Services, and with support of many volunteers, this was the first year of Breakfast & Books.

 

It will be back next year by the students’ popular demand!

 

 

 

 

Spring Spinach Harvest

The Grendel Group in Smithers http://www.grendelgroup.ca/ planted the seeds of spinach on March 18th in the green house and by May 6th it was ready for harvest!  The Ground 2 Griddle kitchen crew packed lunches and headed down the street to help with the harvest, washing and bagging of the spinach for the Harvest Boxes, Nature's Pantry and the Farmer's Market.  Many hands make light work and after the harvest everyone enjoyed a picnic on the garden grass in the warm sun.