Food As Kindness, Food As Care
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WINTER 2020 ™ Food as kindness, food as care Holiday breakfast, Red Beans and Rice, gifts from your kitchen, and more QUICK BITES IN THIS ISSUE ISSUE 42, WINTER 2020 2 Quick Bites Instant Snacking 4 Learning Guide 6 ChopChop Jr.: Toast with Tahini and Cinnamon 10 Kitchen Cash: Math and Finance in Cooking 11 Cartoon Corner By Maxwell Surprenant 13 Feast Your Mind AWESOME RECIPES 20 How They Make It: 9 Spinach Frittata for a Crowd Parmesan Cheese A holiday breakfast favorite 21 Kitchen Science: Why does it feel 12 Kenji’s Red Beans and Rice good to do something nice? Louisiana’s famously saucy, spicy dish ALL ABOUT LEMONS 24 What’s Different? Can you tell what’s been changed in FOOD AS KINDNESS 30 Lemon Chicken these two pictures? 17 Our Favorite Applesauce The lemoniest main dish we know! Pita Chips (page 26 Make a Meal from a Can? Did you know you could make it 32 Hot Lemon-Ginger Tea 39) with Classic Yes You Can! yourself? A hot and spicy mugful Cheese melted on Hummus (page 26) 18 Pasta e Fagioli a piece of whole- 27 Introducing: Tahini 34 Avgolemono That’s noodles and beans, Italian- grain toast This Greek lemon soup will warm 36 Kitchen Science: The science of style! dressing you right up. 22 Lemony Cucumbers GIFTS FROM YOUR KITCHEN 40 Stock Your Kitchen Simple, crunchy, tangy 36 Lemon Vinaigrette 41 Games and Puzzles 26 Classic Hummus 45 Solutions Creamy, dippable, and—yes— 37 Applesauce Bread A handful of Puzzled? We’ve got answers. made out of chickpeas 39 Pita Chips sunflower seeds All recipes by Sally Sampson and Catherine Newman, unless otherwise attributed. A slice of Applesauce Bread (page 37) with cream cheese 2 WINTER 2020 www.chopchopfamily.org www.chopchopfamily.org WINTER 2020 3 THE LEARNING GUIDE TO THIS ISSUE KITCHEN SKILL How to wash your hands LEARN THE KEY Give them a good scrub before you cook, after you At the top of each recipe, you’ll find a key code. Here’s how to read it: touch raw meat, and before you serve or bring anybody food. If you are wearing jewelry, take it off. ❚ HANDS-ON TIME: 30 MINUTES ❚ TOTAL TIME: 1 HOUR ❚ MAKES: 6 SERVINGS 1. Wet your hands with warm water. 2. Add soap and rub your hands together. 3. Scrub the back of your hands, palms, fingers, HANDS-ON TIME TOTAL TIME MAKES between your fingers, under your fingernails. This is how long it takes to This is how long it takes This number will usually tell work on the recipe, including to make the recipe from start to you how many people the 4. Keep scrubbing while you sing all the way gathering your kitchen gear finish, including the time for cooking recipe serves. But sometimes through the “Happy Birthday” song. and preparing the food. and baking when you may be able to we’ll tell you how much the 5. Rinse well. During hands-on time, you do something else—like clean up! In recipe makes. 6. Dry your hands with a clean towel or paper can’t do anything other than recipes that do not involve cooking, work on the recipe. this may be the same as towel. HANDS-ON TIME. LEARN THE LINGO Here are some of the cooking terms you might see in our recipes. If you come across others you don’t know, look them up! (You knew we were going to say that.) • Cored means with the stem and hard center part removed. • Sauté means to cook something gently in a little oil. • Diced means cut up into cubes about the size of dice. • Simmer means to cook at a very gentle boil. • A pinch is the small amount you can pinch between your • To taste means taste it to see whether you want to add finger and thumb. more of something. • Pitted or seeded means with the pits or seeds removed. • Toss means to mix together lightly. KITCHEN SKILL KITCHEN SKILL How to grate How to juice citrus citrus zest without a gadget Many recipes in this issue call for (that’s recipe-speak for We also use lots of fresh lemon juice in this issue. If you’ve got “ask you to use”) grated lemon zest as an ingredient. The a gadget at home—a citrus squeezer or juicer—ask someone zest is the really flavorful, colorful outer part of the peel of to show you how to use it. Otherwise, try this: a citrus fruit. Always zest the fruit before you juice it. 1. Put the fruit on a flat surface (like a countertop) and press 1. Wash the fruit well and dry it. down on it with the palm of your hand. While you press, 2. Rub the fruit gently back and forth across a wand roll it back and forth a couple of times. This squishes the grater or the finest holes of a box grater. Stop when inside of the fruit a little bit to help the juice come out. you see the white part beneath (that’s called the pith, 2. Cut the fruit right through the center (where the equator and it’s bitter) and move the fruit to grate a fresh spot. would be if the fruit were Earth) into two halves. 3. Continue until all the colorful zest is grated off. 3. Working with one half at a time, hold the fruit over a The surface of the grater is sharp, so be sure to keep bowl or measuring cup and stick a fork into the cut side. your fingers away from it! Squeeze the fruit and wiggle the fork back and forth to If you don’t have a grater, use a vegetable peeler to sliver extract the juice. Squeeze hard to get every last drop! off skinny strips of peel. Cut the slivers into tiny pieces with Then squeeze the other half. You might have to pick a knife or kitchen scissors. some seeds out of the juice. 4 WINTER 2020 www.chopchopfamily.org www.chopchopfamily.org WINTER 2020 5 Toast with Claire made her Tahini and own snack! RECIPES JUST RIGHT FOR THE LITTLEST COOKS cinnamon 6 WINTER 2020 www.chopchopfamily.org www.chopchopfamily.org WINTER 2020 7 HEALTHY START Spinach Frittata BEFORE YOU START WASH your hands with soap and water and dry for a Crowd them. CLEAN the We love to make something special for a holiday breakfast, especially if we’ve got guests. But if you’re not countertop. feeding a crowd, you can halve this recipe and bake it in an 8-inch square baking pan. GATHER all your kitchen gear and ❚ ❚ ❚ ingredients and put HANDS-ON TIME: 30 MINUTES TOTAL TIME: 50–60 MINUTES MAKES: 6–8 SERVINGS them on the counter. SCRUB all the fruits KITCHEN GEAR and vegetables and lay Cutting board them out on a clean dish towel to dry. Sharp knife (adult needed) PREPARE your 9 x 13-inch baking pan ingredients, which Kyle serves Measuring spoons means you may have to do something before up a piece of Measuring cups you get started with the frittata. instructions. Large bowl Fork or whisk Pot holders INGREDIENTS 1 teaspoon vegetable or olive oil 12 large eggs 1 teaspoon salt 4 scallions, root ends trimmed off, greens and whites chopped ½ cup grated mozzarella or cheddar cheese (or ½ cup crumbled feta cheese) 1 (16-ounce) bag frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed over the sink (to remove some of the liquid) 4 slices whole-wheat bread, lightly toasted, torn or cut into bite-size pieces INSTRUCTIONS 1. Turn the oven on and set the heat to 350 degrees. Grease the baking pan with the oil and then put it in the oven to heat at the same time. 2. Crack the eggs into the bowl and mix well with the fork or whisk. Add the salt, scallions, cheese, spinach, and bread and mix well. 3. Once the oven temperature has reached 350 degrees, ask an adult to carefully remove the GET CREATIVE baking pan from the oven. • Stir ¼ cup chopped fresh basil leaves into the egg mixture. 4. Carefully pour the egg mixture into the hot pan. 5. Using pot holders, return the pan to the oven. • Add dollops of ricotta cheese to the top before baking. Bake until the eggs are set and the top is just • Replace the bread with 1 large potato, cooked and chopped golden, 20 to 30 minutes. (2½ to 3 cups). 6. Serve right away, or let cool, cover, and ll sharp cessor), th refrigerate up to 3 days. with a d pro e sto T lp foo ve AFE Y T he nd or S IP Ge nd kn r a ove s. t an n a ives nde n, a ient WINTER 2020 a io , ap le nd h gred 8 www.chopchopfamily.org dult’s permiss pliances (b ot in www.chopchopfamily.org WINTER 2020 9 CARTOON CORNER BY MAXWELL SURPRENANT You are planning to make the Spinach Frittata for a Crowd (page 9). If the recipe feeds 6 people (it actually feeds 6 to 8, but we’re simplifying here), and a dozen (12) eggs costs $3.00, then … MATH AND FINANCE IN COOKING 1. How many eggs will you need to make the recipe for only 4 people? 1. 2. How much will the eggs cost? 2. 3. How many eggs will you need to make the recipe for 10 people? 3. 4. How much will the eggs cost? 4.