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Last October the Healthy Schools Campaign hosted its "Cooking Up Change Healthy Cooking Contest" on a stormy night at Salvage One. Today, the winning entrée from students at Chicago Vocational Career Academy will be served at all high schools in the Chicago Public School system.
The dish, a vegetarian-friendly course of red beans and rice with smothered cabbage and caramelized carrots, won out over 29 other dishes (entered by fifteen schools) in the competition. According to the Healthy Schools Campaign, the dish meets the tight cost requirements and nutrition guidelines of the school system. We've come a long way since fish on Friday. Congratulations to the CVCA students.
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Sounds disgusting.
At my high-school Mondays were Chicken Fingers and Mashed Potatoes and Tuesdays were Taco Salads. YUM.
"were?" You mean you're still not in high school?
Seriously? I am 23.
My high school featured old school lunch ladies coming in at 5 to make everything. No Sysco or Aramark delivery trucks... sadly they stopped doing that about two years after I graduated.
Every Wednesday was Chicken and Dumplings day and I couldn't wait for it.
two words: turkey fritters.
smothered cabbage? does that come with a side of gruel?
i'd hate to see what the 29 dishes that lost were
Yeah, I'd be scared of anything involving cabbage too. In the wrong hands, cabbage can easily become "used sweat sock".