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Maximize Your Menu

Maximize Your Menu. Cooking Demonstration by Chef & Author, Monique Hooker. Fifth Season. Buying in Season Utilizing “Seconds” Processing Day Existing Staff Kitchens Introduce New Menu Items Harvest of the Month Activities Use in Menus & Recipes Entire Year

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Maximize Your Menu

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  1. Maximize Your Menu Cooking Demonstration by Chef & Author, Monique Hooker

  2. Fifth Season • Buying in Season • Utilizing “Seconds” • Processing Day • Existing Staff • Kitchens • Introduce New Menu Items • Harvest of the Month Activities • Use in Menus & Recipes Entire Year • Pizza, Calzones, Wraps, Pasta, Muffins, Soup

  3. Harvest of the Month • Local & Seasonal Food Featured Each Month • Displays • Tastings • Nutrition Education • Beets, Spinach, Asparagus for example • Fun Facts • New Recipes • Monthly Newsletter for Parents • Harvest of the Month: http://www.harvestofthemonth.cdph.ca.gov/ • Include Featured Food in Meals & Snack

  4. Classroom Nutrition Education

  5. Display & Tastings in the Cafeteria

  6. Asparagus From Local FarmServed for Lunch

  7. Roasted Beets

  8. See Me Eat It

  9. Sweet Roasted Beets

  10. Learning About Spinach

  11. Fresh Spinach Tasting

  12. Spinach Dip

  13. Colorful Harvest

  14. Eat Your Colors

  15. Garden Lesson

  16. Flatbread in the Making

  17. Flatbread

  18. Regulations of Purchasing Locally Grown Foods • Whole, uncut produce may be purchased directly from a farm • Currently there are no required on farm food safety inspections for raw, fresh fruits & vegetables • Assurances that farms are practicing food safety measures are important

  19. Food Safety Audit Programs • Voluntary Audit-Based Program • GAP: Good Agricultural Practices • Verify farms conform to specific agricultural practices to produce fruits and vegetables in the safest manner possible • GHP: Good Handling Practices • Verify farms conform to specific practices used in handling and packing operations that minimize microbial contamination

  20. Questions?

  21. Thank you! Monique Hooker E-mail: monique@mwt.net Phone: 608-648-2409

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