Apple Slices

This week your student made Apple Slices with Caramel/Chocolate

Ingredients:
Apples
Semi-sweet chocolate
Caramel Squares
Water
Butter

Instructions:

1.  Cut the apples in to slices
2. Melt the chocolate in a pot with butter until smooth
3. Put the caramel in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of water with melt in microwave for 30 seconds
4.  Enjoy

Class responses:
Everyone really liked it.

Salsa

This week your student made Salsa

Ingredients:
2 Tomatoes
Cilantro
Onion
1 Clove Garlic
Salt
Jalapeno

Instructions:

1.  Cut the tomatoes into 1/4
2. Remove leaves from the cilantro
3. Put into a blender
1. tomatoes
2. 1/4 cup cilantro
3. 1/4 cup onion
4. 1 garlic clove
5. 3 pinch of salt
6. add as much jalapeno as you see fit "we put half with no seeds"
4.  Enjoy

Class responses:
Some student really liked it others didn't like it so much

Pizza Muffin

This week your student made Pizza Muffin

Ingredients:
1/2 English Muffin
A pizza/tomato sauce of your choice
Cheese of your choice (we used a 3 cheese mix)
Pepperoni

Instructions:

1. Spread the sauce and cheese on the muffin
2. Add pepperoni (If wanted)
3. Bake for 10 minutes

Ranch Dip

This week your student made Ranch Dip

Ingredients:
1/2 box mayo
1/2 cup sour creme
1/4 tsp parsley, dill weed, dried chives, garlic powder
pinch of salt, pepper, onion powder
cut vegetables of your choice
lemon squeeze

Instructions:

1.  Mix everything in a bowl
2. Eat and enjoy

Class responses:
Some student really liked it others didn't like it so much

Pumpkin Spice Cookies

This week your student made Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 box of spice cake mix (1 cup)
1/2 can of can pumpkin

Instructions:

1. Measure 1 cup of make mix
2. Measure 1 cup of pumpkin
3. Blend in a bowl (until well mixed)
4. Scoop onto a greased cookie sheet
5. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350

Class responses:
Everyone though that it was really good and that they where light and fluffy

spaghetti

This week your student made spaghetti.

Ingredients:
water
spaghetti pasta
a pasta sauce (of your choose)

Instructions:

1. Boil 8 cups of water
2. Put Pasta in water, cook until the pasta is soft. For about 9-12 minutes.
3. Heat sauce in a sauce pan. Cook until hot.
4. Put cooked pasta on proper plating and dress

Things that happened
This has been the first dish we have made where everyone has eaten the dish with no changes to the recipe. Also the water took longer to boil since we used a electric heat pad to boil the water and cook the spaghetti.
 
Class responses:
One of the student liked it but thought it would be better with bacon and sausage.

Pudding Parfait

This week your student made Pudding Parfait.

Ingredients:

1 box vanilla instant pudding
graham crackers
strawberries
banana
chocolate chips
whip creme if wanted

Instructions:

1. prepare pudding per box instructions
2. slice bananas and strawberries
3. crumble graham crackers into a clear cup
4.  layer that rest of the ingredients as you see fit

Class responses:
One of the student thought it was a little runny because they added to much milk, but it was still good.
Mmm... this is good.

Hummus

This week your student made hummus.

Ingredients:

1 can garbanzo beans
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 Tbs olive oil
1 clove crashed garlic clove
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp salt
2 drops sesame oil (optional)

Instructions:

1. blend all ingredients together in a food processor until smooth
2. cut your choice of veggies
3. serve into dishes of your choice

Class responses:
One of the students from Mrs. O's class though that the Hummus was good also it was better then the hummus fr
om the store.

The New School Year

The next school year is right around the corner. That means it's time to get new and delicious recipes that your student have made in the Speech/OT cooking groups. If we make a recipe that we made last year we will still post saying that we made a recipe that is already on the blog and provide you with a link to the respective post. We can't wait to see your student in Speech/OT.

Mashed Potato

This week you student made Mashed Potato.

Ingredients:

Serving Sizes::
 Servings for 5-6 people

1. 1 1/3 cups water
2. 1/2 tsp salt
3. 2 tbsp butter
4. 2/3 sup milk
5. 1 1/3 cup potato flakes

 Servings for 7-8 people

1. 2 2/3 cups water
2. 1 tsp salt
3. 4 tbsp butter
4. 1 1/3 sup milk
5. 2 2/3 cup potato flakes

 Instructions:

1. Combine water, salt and butter
2. Heat to a boil, remove from heat
3. Add cold milk
4. Stir in potato gently
5. Let stand until moist, then whip lightly with fork

Class responses:
Some of the younger kinds though that they were good and vary fluffy.

Potato Pancake

This week you student made Potato Pancake.

Ingredients:

Pancake mix
Potato flakes
Salt
Buttermilk
Eggs
Low fat milk
Vegetable oil
Baking soda
Sugar

Instructions:

1. 3/4 cup Pancake mix
2. 1/2 cup Potato flakes
3. pinch of Salt
4. 3/4 cup Buttermilk
5. 1 tbsp Sugar
6. 1 1/2 Baking soda
7. 1 Egg
8. 1 1/2 tbsp Vegetable oil
9. 1/4  Low fat milk

Class responses:
Some of the younger kinds though that they were good and vary fluffy.

Pizza Bagels

This week you student made Pizza Bagels.

Ingredients:

Plain Bagels
Pepperoni
Pizza Sauce
Mozzarella Cheese

Instructions:

1. Cut 1/2 bagel place on a plate
2. Spread pizza sauce on the top of the bagel
3. Sprinkling a tablespoon of cheese on the pizza sauce
4.  Put 2 pepperoni (If wanted)
5. Toast in a toasted oven till the cheese is melted

Class responses:
The younger kids though it was good. Some of them thought it needed some salt, some more flavor and one said "a good Italian food".

Fries

This week you student made fries from scratch.

Ingredients:

Idaho Potato russet
Canola Oil (Healthy choice peanut oil)
Kosher Salt

Instructions:

1. Wash the potato
2. Peel and cut the potato into french fries pieces
3. Soak raw potato in hot tap water for 10 minutes and pat dry
4. Fry the potato (per the instructions of the fryer used) 
5. Eat and enjoy

Class responses:
A student from Mrs. L's class said that they were good. He think that they were fryed for the right amount of time. Since of how fresh they were he thinks that they were as good as In N Out's fresh cut fries. Mrs. Dona started that they were the best fries shes ever had.

Hummus

This week your student made hummus.

Ingredients:

1 can garbanzo beans
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 Tbs olive oil
1 crashed garlic clove
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions:

1. blend all ingredients together in a food processor until smooth
2. cut your choice of veggies
3. serve into dishes of your choice

Class responses:
 A staff from Mrs. L class really liked the creaminess of the hummus. She also thought the hummus had great garlic taste. She appreciated the veggies that were on the side.

Smoothies

This week your student made smoothies.

Ingredients
5 strawberries
10 blueberries
1/2 banana
3/4 cup orange juice
3/4 cup yogurt
2 cup ice

Instructions

1. cut strawberries into small pieces and cut the stems off
2. slice the banana
3. measure 3/4 cup orange juice and yogurt into a blender
4. measure 2 cup ice into the blender
5. blend all ingredients until smooth

This week we had an observer from SDSU try the smoothies. She liked the cold and fruity taste of the smoothies.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Energy Balls

This week your student made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Energy Balls. The following recipe comfortably makes 14 energy balls.

Ingredients
3 cups dry, uncooked oatmeal (We used gluten-free cut outs)
1 cup all-natural Pumpkin Pure
1 cup all-natural Peanut butter, or Almond butter
2/3 cup pure maple syrup or raw honey
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 Tbsp vanilla extract
4-6 Tbsp sunflower seeds (if 'dough' seems too wet, then add more ground flax, if it's too dry, add less
1/2 Cup mini dark chocolate

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients together in a medium bowl until thoroughly mixed
2. Roll into ball of about 1" in diameter. Chocolate Chip Energy Balls
3. Place on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper & freeze one hour
4. Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week

Class Responses:

Luster's room: The staff in her room thought it was good but would suggest a different type of nut than sunflower seeds. 

Chicken Lettuce Wraps

On February 27 your student made Chicken Lettuce Wraps.

INGREDIENTS:

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound ground chicken
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, diced
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 tablespoon Sriracha, optional
1 (8-ounce) can whole water chestnuts, drained and diced
2 green onions, thinly sliced

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 head iceberg lettuce

DIRECTIONS:

Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium high heat. Add ground chicken and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the chicken as it cooks; drain excess fat.
Stir in garlic, onion, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ginger and Sriracha until onions have become translucent, about 1-2 minutes.
Stir in chestnuts and green onions until tender, about 1-2 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
To serve, spoon several tablespoons of the chicken mixture into the center of a lettuce leaf, taco-style.

Class Responses

The overwhelming reaction from the whole school way amazing because it way healthy choice and it was easy to make

What is Sierra Food Corner

Sierra's Food Corner is a Blog posted to contain cooking information from Speech and Occupational Therapy groups.  The blog is set up for parents and students to have access to our wonderful recipes.  We will be posting weekly recipes of dishes that were made.  You can see pictures of the final dishes and read about class opinions on the recipes.