Plaza East Health Faire

image_2On Saturday, January 30, 2016 our CommunityGrows Seed-to-Mouth Coordinator, Crystal Jones join the Plaza East Apartments Health Faire outside their Community Room and had this to report: Saturday’s demo at Plaza East went great. It was really nice to be able to familiarize myself with some of the residents and meet parents of a few of the students who I’ve had the pleasure of teaching in cooking class over the past few weeks. This cooking demo felt to me, what the first restaurant pop up or food truck must have felt like. I strapped my camping stove onto the front rack of my bicycle, enjoyed a sunny ride from the Mission to the Western Addition, where I set up a small table, a few flyers, my camping stove and a propane can. Then prepared Community Grows’ “Tortilla Espanola” recipe (recently featured on the blog).  imageIt was a success. Though truly, not much can go wrong with sweet potatoes, caramelized onions, egg whites, spinach and a little Parmesan (I threw in some garlic to attract a crowd). A line of curious and encouraging brunch enthusiast formed in no time. I look forward to the next event where we can again engage like this with the community – and hope to even have a couple of my Thursday night elementary school chefs assisting next time. *I even had a couple who thought we were there selling the omelettes and tried to pay me for them. Ha!image_1