Cooking Class
Cooking for the Holidays!
On Monday, December 12th, the youth from Hayward Recreation Center in San Francisco, joined CommunityGrows to bake Ginger Snaps for the holidays! It was a great afternoon with about ten youth getting a chance to prepare the ingredients, shape the dough and drop rounds on to baking sheets. While the cookies baked in the oven [...]
Western Addition Newspaper highlights CommunityGrows!
Great article appeared in the Western Addition Newspaper this month about Koshland Park and the summer programs at CommunityGrows. The best part was hearing what the youth had to say about the programs, especially the BEETS and the African American Arts & Culture Complex youth who came to the cooking classes at Hayes Valley South. [...]
Cooking with Kennard Smith from Firefly Restaurant
On Thursday afternoon our last summer CommunityGrows Seed-to-Mouth cooking class at Hayes Valley South community room, featured Kennard Smith, chef from Firefly Restaurant in San Francisco. Chef Smith brought his friend Nathan Serrano, food truck chef with Off-the-Grid, to prepare Chinese dumplings with the students. Youth from the African American Arts and Culture Complex summer [...]
Chinese Dumplings
On March 7, 2011 the youth at Hayward Recreation Center joined the weekly Monday cooking classes to make Chinese Dumplings. Lead by amazing volunteer, Grace Ting, who lives in the neighborhood, and after-school garden coordinator, Ashante Smith, youth chopped and prepared vegetables for the dumplings. Then with round won ton wrappers, they added some of [...]
Hayward Cooking Classes Begin
In October 2010 CommunityGrows began a year-long Seed-to-Mouth cooking program at Margaret Hayward Recreation Center, Monday afternoons from 4-6 PM. The students who come for the after-school programs have been making great food every week and learning about nutrition. Some of the menus have been vegetable soup with biscuits, sushi, and tortillas with salsa and [...]
Seed-to-Mouth Cooking Classes-Summer 2010
Veggie Stir-fry, Mexican Salsa, Sushi, Bowtie Pasta, Spring rolls, and Baked potatoes! Every Wednesday in July from 3-5 PM, a culinary theme was chosen and three dishes made. Twenty to thirty youth, parents, and volunteers came together to harvest, prepare, and serve delicious, nutritious and healthy meals which we sat down and enjoyed together. Each [...]
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