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SCRAPS are useful. Make some STOCK. 

Freeze your carrots ends, herb stems, onion + garlic skins, celery bottoms, woody mushroom stems, corn cobs, squash ends, and anything else you want to drain flavor from.  *Today we used beet skins.  It made our water a punchy pink!*

Put your scraps into a pot and fill with water.  (You CAN cook your scraps for about ten minutes with a bit of olive oil to draw out some extra flavor, if you wish.)  Add a few peppercorns + some fresh herbs.  Let it come to a boil and then turn down the heat to a simmer and let it roll for two hours.

Try adding your savory juicer scraps!  Tomato/pepper/carrot/beet etc.

I don’t add salt to stock, I add salt to whatever I’m cooking with the stock.

Use your stock to cook rice, beans, add to tomato sauce or just DRINK it!! 

Try pairing a cup of fresh stock (with or without salt added) with a salad + baguette.

It’s a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. 

Purple carrots have 20mg of vitamin C, which is 33 percent of the daily value for vitamin C. They also have 20mg of vitamin B6, which is ten times the daily value for vitamin B6. The vitamin E content in a serving of purple carrots is 20 International Units, or about 67 percent of the daily value for vitamin E.

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math snack : crunchy peanut butter and purple dragon carrots

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we have the same day off carob pancakes (and no baking powder)

adapted from the JOY of cooking  |pp. 211-12|

*yields roughly 8 or so 5in. heaven disks

sift: 

2  c unbleached all-purpose flour

2 1/2  palm fulls of sugar

1 tsp salt

3/4 c carob powder

in a second bowl (should be wide/stainless steel nesting bowl):

separate two eggs (crack and play catch with the shells and the yolk over the bowl)

put yolks aside

with a whisk, beat the shit out of those two egg whites until they’re stiff but not dry (7-10 minutes)

beat yolks 

add yolks and 

1 1/4 c of milk to flour

mix thoroughly

fold in beaten egg whites (don’t break the foam…)

heat a cast-iron skillet on low-med heat with a dash of sunflower oil (for some reason i think the oil really made this all happen so beautifully)

ladle to about 5 inches in diameter…i even spread it like pizza sauce onto the pan with the back of a spoon

flip when you see six substantial bubbles in the middle of the cake

enjoy with farmer butter and maple syrup 

(andrew had a fried egg on the side)

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dewey and ratatouille.

University City High School + Urban Girls Produce <3 

the pawpaw:

delicious custardy tropical reminiscent local fruit.  try it with vanilla cream top yogurt, sugar baby watermelon, muesli and coarse salt.  decadent.