Each Friday morning, students in our class have been rolling up their sleeves to chop, roll, or flip through a recipe given to them by our leader, Sarah.

Let’s Get Cookin’ is a cooking program which trains volunteers from the school community to teach junior, intermediate and secondary school youth basic cooking skills.

In our first session we learned about food safety including how to cut fruits and veggies. Since then, we’ve made things such as fruit and yogurt parfaits, fruit smoothies, cheddar/apple wraps, veggie and cheese quesadillas. What will be next? Each recipe includes a vegetable or fruit and the recipes are based on Canada’s Food Guide. Blenders, skillets, cutting boards, and measuring cups have been some of our tools to help us get through a recipe.

When making parfaits, we learned about what a date is! Did you know that dates can be found growing in places such as Iraq, Egypt, and Morocco? They grow on palm trees. Have you tried a date before?

Have a look at us in action!