Essay Contest
Cooking with Kids second annual essay contest winners are posted below! Students in 5th and 6th grade from SFPS schools that participate in Cooking with Kids were invited to submit essays. New this year is a Spanish language category. Winners each received a framed certificate and a Cooking with Kids gift bag that included a chef's coat, Farmer's Market tokens, and locally grown dried apples.
Special thanks to our essay contest judges:
• Rocky Durham, Culinary Director, Santa Fe School of Cooking
• Pat West-Barker, Publisher of The Zenchilada
• Lynn Walters, Executive Director, Cooking with Kids
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Gonzales Community School
Kaila Neuenschwander (Ms. Pino, 6th)
Good Cooking for All!!!!!!!!!
Whenever I am in the kitchen cooking something I always feel great. I love to cook with my mom and make different foods. After I make the food, I love to share it with my friends and family.
When I am home, I love to cook lasagna and garlic bread. One of my specialties is pumpkin pudding. But one thing I don't like is having to clean up and do the dishes. Sometimes for lunch my mom will make bruchette. I enjoy eating food a family member makes.
This is one memory that I will never forget. I remember for my 8th birthday party, my mom baked a cake. But she used the sea level baking mix and the cake sizzled over the top. It looked like the cake had been hit by an asteroid! Since then, mom has been sure to check for high elevation recipes.
When I started Cooking with Kids in 2nd grade I always enjoyed it. I loved making different food from different cultures, and coloring the maps. Also, I like measuring with the measuring cups and doing math. But my favorite part of Cooking with Kids was to get to eat the yummy food. I do wish we could have had seconds because the food was so good.
The truth is that I don't care where I cook, I just love to cook. I am very thankful to have the supplies and people that could teach me different recipes. GOOD COOKING FOR ALL!
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Sweeney Elementary
Adriana Vargas (Ms. Sena, 5th grade)
I love cooking!
I love cooking. Cooking is important because it teaches you to follow directions and it also teaches you not to do something you are not supposed to do. I also love cooking because it is very fun to do and when you finish cooking, the food comes out delicious. You can spend tie with your family when you are cooking. I am very glad I know how to cook and very happy we have Cooking with Kids to teach me.
You also make memories when you cook. In Mexico, my whole family made homemade tortillas and hot delicious green chile My auntie peeled the chile, my other auntie kneaded the dough and my other auntie cooked it. For the holidays my whole family in Santa Fe usually makes mashed potatoes and gravy, chile rellenos and steak. At my grandma's house she makes the best beans and chile - sometimes it's red and sometimes it's green chile.
Things I learned how to make in Cooking with Kids were great and I didn't even know I was going to like the kind of food we made. We made lentils, we made tamales, which were really a lot of fun to make and we also cooked white rice from China. That was my favorite thing we've cooked so far.
When I get older I know I am going to cook a lot. I am going to pass my recipes on to my nieces, nephews or maybe even my own kids someday. I also know I am going to cook with my family. Cooking with Kids was a great experience and a lot of fun.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Salazar Elementary
Maya Vigil (Ms. Ballard, 5th grade)
A Wonderful Creation
Mmm. My favorite smells are spices. A little bit of cloves and a few dashes of pumpkin spice start one of the best pumpkin pie recipes ever. I put 1-2 cups of granulated sugar that make it sweet. As my sister sprinkled cinnamon I started to stir all of the spices together. It got a beautiful color of light brown. My sister and I moved on to the wet ingredients, starting to break the eggs. As she did I mixed in a can of pumpkin. When my dad walked into the kitchen I asked him to stir the spices, pumpkin, and egg. While he was doing that my sister added canned milk to my dad's mixture as he mixed more. Then my other sister came by and tasted it. She said that it tasted great just like always. After that we put it in a pie shell and cooked it. When it was finished my family and I enjoyed our delicious creation.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Chaparral
Camila Saluja (Mr. Romero, 5th grade)
Cooking in the Family Pot
Cooking is something people have enjoyed for ages. To me, it's such an important thing. I think that children who watch or help their parents cook will become better chefs. In my family cooking is very important. My mom and dad cook almost every night. I usually help them. My dad comes from South America so he cooks different things. When he cooks, he cooks things like milanesas (chicken covered with bread crumbs) or empanadas (a pie with spinach and eggs in it). My mom is Italian so she cooks a lot of delicious things too. Cooking is also very important in my history, too. My great great grandmother, Enrichetta, came from Italy to America before she got married (to someone she didn't like). She got a job as a dishwasher at a restaurant in New York City called Delmonico's. One day the soup chef was sick. She took his place. People loved her soup. After that she became the first woman soup chef Delmonico's EVER had. She fell in love with a man named Pasquale who delivered poultry to restaurants. They married.
So you see, food and cooking are very important in my life. Past, present, and maybe even future. I may become a baker and own my own bakery. No matter what, I know that I will pass on the recipes to my children and they'll pass it on to theirs. Cooking is a treasure. We need to keep it safe.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Chaparral
Noelle Navarro (Mr. Cameron, 5th grade)
The Magic Pans
Once there was a princess named Izinia. Her country was going through some hard times. There was not enough food. Izinia's father, the kind, could not figure out how to fix the problem. He tried everything! Still nothing worked. Half of the population in the country dropped. Since there wasn't enough food lots of people died, including Izinia's sister. After 3 hard years Izinia's father could no longer be king, so Izinia became queen.
One day Izinia was walking, when she fell. When she got up she realized she had fallen on top of a door in the ground. Izinia heard voices coming towards her calling "Find the queen!" She quickly hid the door with branches and called "I am here!" When she got back to the palace 50 doctors checked Izinia. Finally when they said she was fine Izinia ran as fast as she could back to where she had discovered the door. She opened the door and went inside. The young queen found pans and a book. The book was magic and so were the pans! The magic was was that the food she cooked in the pans was enough to feed the entire kingdom. Izinia went down in history as "The cooking Queen!"
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Kearny
Marisol Chavez (Mr. Northup, 6th grade)
Cooking with Kids
I love Cooking with Kids, because it is a place where we can learn a lot about food. We can learn where all the food came from, how to cook and much more.
It is awesome, because the whole class gets to experience different food from different countries and taste new food that us kids actually cooked. Plus, we get to learn about the countries, the spices that they use and what they like.
We have done fried rice with sour cucumbers and they were good. You should have seen Mr. Northup's face! That was proof of the sourness of the cucumbers.
Cooking with Kids is so awesome and fun for everybody including Mr. Northup to go back to his childhood days. I think Cooking with Kids is important, because when you grow up you are going to know how to cook really good food for your family. You will know a lot of recipes.
That's why I say Cooking with Kids is so fun and important.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez
Joshua Trujillo (Ms. Hamman, 5th grade)
Cooking With Fun
Yes, I do like to cook. Sometimes I help my mom cook. I love cooking, but when I cook I have to wash my hands first. Everyday I cook with my mom. I help her make tacos. I ask my mom if I can fry the meat. When I fry meat I have to be careful. I have good memories of cooking because I remember when my great grandma was alive. She was the bomb at cooking. We always made Sunday dinners, but not anymore because she died, but I still remember her because of her cooking.
When I cook I cook from my heart. I will never ever give up on cooking because I love cooking. When I go to restaurants I order something healthy. When my mom and I have visitors coming over my mom makes all kinds of food. Then my grandpa and all our visitors eat it all.
Last year for Christmas I made the greatest fruit salad ever. Everybody was getting seconds. That Christmas was the best of all, not because of the presents, but because of the family eating with each other. I wish everybody in the world could have food and Sunday dinners together.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez
Diddier Linares Ramirez (Mr. Rueda, 5th)
Caldo de Pollo
En este "essay" voy a hablar de como hacer un caldo de pollo. Preparar un caldo de pollo no es muy sencillo.
Primero, lo que tienes que hacer es hervir agua en una olla grande. Luego sacas el pollo afuera de el refrigerador y lo pones a descongelarse. Tienes que ponerlo a descongelarse por lo menos 20 o 30 minutos. Cuando ya se ha descongelado sacas el pollo de la bolsa. Sacas el pollo de la bolsa para ponerlo listo para meterlo en la olla.
Despues de poner el pollo en la olla tienes que poner las verduras como zanahoria, papas y otros ingredientes. Despues le echas "sopas de pobrecito" para que le de un saborcito. Despues tapas la olla. Luego le pones llama grande.
Despues de tapar la olla tienes que esperar por lo menos 30 minutos o 1 hora. Cuando ya ha parado ese tiempo, abres la olla. Sirves el caldo con varias verduras en platos hondos. Despues le pides a una persona que te ayuda a pasarlos a la mesa. Si tu quieres puedes tener uno o dos chiles y también puedes hacer tortillas.
Translation:
In this essay I am going to talk about how to make chicken soup. Making chicken soup is not very simple.
First, you have to boil water in a big pot. Next you take the chicken out of the refrigerator and you let it thaw. You have to let it thaw for at least 20 to 30 minutes. When it has thawed, take the chicken out of the bag. You take the chicken out of the bag to get it ready to put it in the pot.
After you put the chicken in the pot you have to add vegetables like carrots, potatoes and other ingredients. Next you add "sopas de pobrecito" to give it a little flavor. Then you cover the pot. After that you put the heat on high.
After you cover the pot you have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour. When that time has passed, open the pot. You serve the soup with some vegetables in deep bowls. Then you ask someone to help you carry them to the table. If you want, you can have one or two chiles and you can also make tortillas.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Gonzales Community School
Marc Senteney (Ms. Pino, grade 5)
How Do You Think Your Eating Habits Affect Your Future?
No one knows for sure what the future will bring, but building good habits when you are young, like eating healthy, will make your life more fun and make you live longer. Eating healthy foods gives you more energy. Eating junk food makes you feel tired all the time. Eating does affect your future because if you don't eat foods that are good for you, your body does not have what it needs to work the way it is supposed to.
I am eleven years old. I don't know where I will be in 30 years. I don't know if I will buy a winning lottery ticket or discover some new invention, but I know what I want to be doing. I want to play basketball like my dad does. I want to swim every day like my uncle does. I have a lot of fun playing outside everyday. I am not allowed to stay inside watching TV. My dad always tells me that the habits I form today will be the habits I have tomorrow. He is a basketball coach. He tells me that if I want to be good at shooting, then I have to practice. It is the same with eating. If I want to be a healthy adult, then I have to form good eating habits when I am young.
I know that when I eat healthy foods, I have more energy. I feel stronger, and I can play all day without getting tired. I love to eat fruit. No one has to talk me into eating strawberries. Vegetables are a little harder for me to choose on my own. My grandpa likes to have me help him plant vegetables in his garden. He knows that if I help grow the vegetables, then I am more likely to eat them. He's right. I love tomatoes. We have planted a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. They are fun to watch grow. My grandfather is 80 years old and he is still in really good shape. He still has a lot of energy. He likes to go on long walks. I know that eating good foods gives him the energy he needs to exercise. Exercising makes him feel good about himself, just like playing makes me feel good.
Eating junk food makes me feel tired. I have less energy when I eat foods that have a lot of junk in them. My coaches remind me that Cokes are bad for me because they have a lot of sugar. They tell me to drink water because it is good for me. They try to help me take care of my body. When I eat junk food, I end up feeling hungrier. Then I eat more, which isn't good for me either.
Eating does affect your future because if you eat healthy, you will live longer. Your body will be in better shape and it will function the way it is supposed to. If you eat junk food all the time, you will gain weight. It will be hard to exercise, and a lot of your body will not work the way it is supposed to. Having extra weight is hard on the body. It is harder to exercise, and without exercise your body slows down. The future will be easier to predict. There will be more trips to the doctor and maybe even the hospital.
I know I can't predict the future, but I can guide it. I can eat healthy and make sure I have a lot of energy to do all the things I want to do. I'm only eleven years old, but I want to live a long life like my grandpa has. I like helping my mom cook because I learn a lot about food. She shows me how I can decide what to cook for dinner. I'm also learning a lot about cooking from my Cooking with Kids class. I've learned how to measure and mix different foods, and how to be open to trying new foods. I have also learned how to follow a recipe. I know that I have a choice about what kinds of foods to eat. What I have learned in Cooking with Kids and from my family will guide me today and in the future. I choose to eat healthy.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Sweeney Elementary School
By Elissa Fernando (Ms. Sena, grade 5)
Healthy Eating
I believe you don't have to know how to cook in order to eat healthy because you could just eat some fruits. For example, you could eat an apple, a banana, grapes, strawberries, a pear, or an orange. You can also eat vegetables like carrots, celery, cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, corn, peas, or green beans. When I get home from school, I always want a snack to eat. My sister usually tells me to eat fruits or vegetables.
My grandfather Willie has a garden, but we do not live near my grandparents' house. So instead of driving all the way to our grandparents' house, my sister goes to the store to buy fruits and vegetables. My sister is always making salad. At dinnertime, my sister always makes sure there are vegetables with the meal.
When I grow up, I plan to have my own garden. I also plan to teach my children about healthy eating and what food is healthy and the foods that are not healthy for their bodies.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez Community School
Sandip Rai (Mr. Rueda, grade 5)
Eating Healthy and Fresh
There are a wide variety of foods to eat. The best choices are the healthy choices. I think a healthy body means eating healthy. The desserts out there, like chocolate banana sundaes, might look good with the cream and extra sprinkles, but they are very unhealthy for your body. I am not saying, "Never eat sweets!" I am just saying not to eat them a lot. This is what eating healthy means to me.
I think the best way to eat is to cook at home. You can make yourself something that is good and healthy. If I eat fast foods there are things that are unhealthy in them. If I eat salad but add ranch dressing, it's going to be unhealthy. That's why I want to learn how to cook.
I learned about eating healthy and cooking from J.B.I. and Cooking with Kids. I was in Cooking with Kids in 3rd and 4th grade. I learned about reading labels and vitamins from J.B.I., a health and nutrition program. That's how I learned about healthy eating from both.
I think eating habits will affect my future very much. If I eat things that have too much fat and sugar it will make my body unhealthy. The best way to know what's in food is to read the food label. The food label tells you how much fat, sugar, and vitamins there are. That is why I think eating habits will affect my future.
My family has taught me a lot about eating healthy. My mom is great at cooking. My mom usually makes us something like lentils, chicken curry, and a lot of chili. That is what I smell when I come to my house after school. Those are some of the things I learned from my family.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay (TIE)
Salazar Elementary School
Marlen Niebla and Grecia Morales Vega (Mr. Peluso, grade 6)
Cooking with Kids by Marlen Niebla
Cooking with Kids is one of my favorite specials. There are many things that I like about it.
Every time we have Cooking with Kids we always try new foods, not just any kind of new foods--healthy new foods. They have plenty of protein, vitamins, and calcium, which I love because it's good for me.
What I really like about this program is cooking the food. You get to mix the ingredients together, like the spices. You also get to cut food, such as onions and measure liquids, like water. Once you're done cooking and tasting you can take the recipe so you can make it at home.
It's also fun to read about the food's culture. Where is it from? Why do we eat it? Was this a special kind of food used in ceremonies? All in all Cooking with Kids is fun. Everyone gets to participate in something, either in cooking the food or helping to pass it out, and once you leave you always learn something new.
Cooking with Kids by Grecia Morales Vega
One of my favorite things about school this year was Cooking with Kids.
I liked Cooking with Kids because it taught you to eat healthy and not just things like salads but other fun things too. We got the chance to make food from all over the world, like Mexico, Italy, South America, Japan, and Africa.
I also think I really liked this cooking program because it taught me that cooking and healthy eating have a lot to do with each other, like the types of ingredients people use and choosing to bake something instead of frying it.
Also, that is one of the main reasons why people eat junk food--because they don't know how to cook.
This program was very enjoyable also because it combined two of my favorite things: cooking and culture. It teaches how the people from other places eat the food and why. It also teaches us to say "good eating" in diverse languages.
I thinking Cooking with Kids was a great program. I liked it so much I'm now thinking of becoming a chef.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Kearny Elementary School
Jacob Martinez (Mrs. Dickey, grade 5)
Be Healthy for Life
Eating healthy will help you for life in so many ways. One of the reasons is a clearer thinking mind; to help you do better in school and to help your cognitive thinking; to help you make good decisions, so there will be more rewards and less consequences.
When you eat in a healthy way, you can help your skin and your hair. It can help your skin by stopping acne. I know some people like to use ProActive or some stuff like that, but if you eat greens you don't have to buy all of that. Shiny hair is just divine and you can get that too, just eat your greens.
For healthy eating, there are a couple of ways to help. One of them is Cooking with Kids because they always make good healthy food. To help you stay within a good weight and make you feel great, healthy eating is a must. Cooking with Kids is a fun way to learn how to be healthy for life.
Special thanks to our essay contest judges:
• Rocky Durham, Culinary Director, Santa Fe School of Cooking
• Pat West-Barker, Publisher of The Zenchilada
• Lynn Walters, Executive Director, Cooking with Kids
2010 Winning Essays
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Gonzales Community School
Kaila Neuenschwander (Ms. Pino, 6th)
Good Cooking for All!!!!!!!!!
Whenever I am in the kitchen cooking something I always feel great. I love to cook with my mom and make different foods. After I make the food, I love to share it with my friends and family.
When I am home, I love to cook lasagna and garlic bread. One of my specialties is pumpkin pudding. But one thing I don't like is having to clean up and do the dishes. Sometimes for lunch my mom will make bruchette. I enjoy eating food a family member makes.
This is one memory that I will never forget. I remember for my 8th birthday party, my mom baked a cake. But she used the sea level baking mix and the cake sizzled over the top. It looked like the cake had been hit by an asteroid! Since then, mom has been sure to check for high elevation recipes.
When I started Cooking with Kids in 2nd grade I always enjoyed it. I loved making different food from different cultures, and coloring the maps. Also, I like measuring with the measuring cups and doing math. But my favorite part of Cooking with Kids was to get to eat the yummy food. I do wish we could have had seconds because the food was so good.
The truth is that I don't care where I cook, I just love to cook. I am very thankful to have the supplies and people that could teach me different recipes. GOOD COOKING FOR ALL!
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Sweeney Elementary
Adriana Vargas (Ms. Sena, 5th grade)
I love cooking!
I love cooking. Cooking is important because it teaches you to follow directions and it also teaches you not to do something you are not supposed to do. I also love cooking because it is very fun to do and when you finish cooking, the food comes out delicious. You can spend tie with your family when you are cooking. I am very glad I know how to cook and very happy we have Cooking with Kids to teach me.
You also make memories when you cook. In Mexico, my whole family made homemade tortillas and hot delicious green chile My auntie peeled the chile, my other auntie kneaded the dough and my other auntie cooked it. For the holidays my whole family in Santa Fe usually makes mashed potatoes and gravy, chile rellenos and steak. At my grandma's house she makes the best beans and chile - sometimes it's red and sometimes it's green chile.
Things I learned how to make in Cooking with Kids were great and I didn't even know I was going to like the kind of food we made. We made lentils, we made tamales, which were really a lot of fun to make and we also cooked white rice from China. That was my favorite thing we've cooked so far.
When I get older I know I am going to cook a lot. I am going to pass my recipes on to my nieces, nephews or maybe even my own kids someday. I also know I am going to cook with my family. Cooking with Kids was a great experience and a lot of fun.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Salazar Elementary
Maya Vigil (Ms. Ballard, 5th grade)
A Wonderful Creation
Mmm. My favorite smells are spices. A little bit of cloves and a few dashes of pumpkin spice start one of the best pumpkin pie recipes ever. I put 1-2 cups of granulated sugar that make it sweet. As my sister sprinkled cinnamon I started to stir all of the spices together. It got a beautiful color of light brown. My sister and I moved on to the wet ingredients, starting to break the eggs. As she did I mixed in a can of pumpkin. When my dad walked into the kitchen I asked him to stir the spices, pumpkin, and egg. While he was doing that my sister added canned milk to my dad's mixture as he mixed more. Then my other sister came by and tasted it. She said that it tasted great just like always. After that we put it in a pie shell and cooked it. When it was finished my family and I enjoyed our delicious creation.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Chaparral
Camila Saluja (Mr. Romero, 5th grade)
Cooking in the Family Pot
Cooking is something people have enjoyed for ages. To me, it's such an important thing. I think that children who watch or help their parents cook will become better chefs. In my family cooking is very important. My mom and dad cook almost every night. I usually help them. My dad comes from South America so he cooks different things. When he cooks, he cooks things like milanesas (chicken covered with bread crumbs) or empanadas (a pie with spinach and eggs in it). My mom is Italian so she cooks a lot of delicious things too. Cooking is also very important in my history, too. My great great grandmother, Enrichetta, came from Italy to America before she got married (to someone she didn't like). She got a job as a dishwasher at a restaurant in New York City called Delmonico's. One day the soup chef was sick. She took his place. People loved her soup. After that she became the first woman soup chef Delmonico's EVER had. She fell in love with a man named Pasquale who delivered poultry to restaurants. They married.
So you see, food and cooking are very important in my life. Past, present, and maybe even future. I may become a baker and own my own bakery. No matter what, I know that I will pass on the recipes to my children and they'll pass it on to theirs. Cooking is a treasure. We need to keep it safe.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Chaparral
Noelle Navarro (Mr. Cameron, 5th grade)
The Magic Pans
Once there was a princess named Izinia. Her country was going through some hard times. There was not enough food. Izinia's father, the kind, could not figure out how to fix the problem. He tried everything! Still nothing worked. Half of the population in the country dropped. Since there wasn't enough food lots of people died, including Izinia's sister. After 3 hard years Izinia's father could no longer be king, so Izinia became queen.
One day Izinia was walking, when she fell. When she got up she realized she had fallen on top of a door in the ground. Izinia heard voices coming towards her calling "Find the queen!" She quickly hid the door with branches and called "I am here!" When she got back to the palace 50 doctors checked Izinia. Finally when they said she was fine Izinia ran as fast as she could back to where she had discovered the door. She opened the door and went inside. The young queen found pans and a book. The book was magic and so were the pans! The magic was was that the food she cooked in the pans was enough to feed the entire kingdom. Izinia went down in history as "The cooking Queen!"
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Kearny
Marisol Chavez (Mr. Northup, 6th grade)
Cooking with Kids
I love Cooking with Kids, because it is a place where we can learn a lot about food. We can learn where all the food came from, how to cook and much more.
It is awesome, because the whole class gets to experience different food from different countries and taste new food that us kids actually cooked. Plus, we get to learn about the countries, the spices that they use and what they like.
We have done fried rice with sour cucumbers and they were good. You should have seen Mr. Northup's face! That was proof of the sourness of the cucumbers.
Cooking with Kids is so awesome and fun for everybody including Mr. Northup to go back to his childhood days. I think Cooking with Kids is important, because when you grow up you are going to know how to cook really good food for your family. You will know a lot of recipes.
That's why I say Cooking with Kids is so fun and important.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez
Joshua Trujillo (Ms. Hamman, 5th grade)
Cooking With Fun
Yes, I do like to cook. Sometimes I help my mom cook. I love cooking, but when I cook I have to wash my hands first. Everyday I cook with my mom. I help her make tacos. I ask my mom if I can fry the meat. When I fry meat I have to be careful. I have good memories of cooking because I remember when my great grandma was alive. She was the bomb at cooking. We always made Sunday dinners, but not anymore because she died, but I still remember her because of her cooking.
When I cook I cook from my heart. I will never ever give up on cooking because I love cooking. When I go to restaurants I order something healthy. When my mom and I have visitors coming over my mom makes all kinds of food. Then my grandpa and all our visitors eat it all.
Last year for Christmas I made the greatest fruit salad ever. Everybody was getting seconds. That Christmas was the best of all, not because of the presents, but because of the family eating with each other. I wish everybody in the world could have food and Sunday dinners together.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez
Diddier Linares Ramirez (Mr. Rueda, 5th)
Caldo de Pollo
En este "essay" voy a hablar de como hacer un caldo de pollo. Preparar un caldo de pollo no es muy sencillo.
Primero, lo que tienes que hacer es hervir agua en una olla grande. Luego sacas el pollo afuera de el refrigerador y lo pones a descongelarse. Tienes que ponerlo a descongelarse por lo menos 20 o 30 minutos. Cuando ya se ha descongelado sacas el pollo de la bolsa. Sacas el pollo de la bolsa para ponerlo listo para meterlo en la olla.
Despues de poner el pollo en la olla tienes que poner las verduras como zanahoria, papas y otros ingredientes. Despues le echas "sopas de pobrecito" para que le de un saborcito. Despues tapas la olla. Luego le pones llama grande.
Despues de tapar la olla tienes que esperar por lo menos 30 minutos o 1 hora. Cuando ya ha parado ese tiempo, abres la olla. Sirves el caldo con varias verduras en platos hondos. Despues le pides a una persona que te ayuda a pasarlos a la mesa. Si tu quieres puedes tener uno o dos chiles y también puedes hacer tortillas.
Translation:
In this essay I am going to talk about how to make chicken soup. Making chicken soup is not very simple.
First, you have to boil water in a big pot. Next you take the chicken out of the refrigerator and you let it thaw. You have to let it thaw for at least 20 to 30 minutes. When it has thawed, take the chicken out of the bag. You take the chicken out of the bag to get it ready to put it in the pot.
After you put the chicken in the pot you have to add vegetables like carrots, potatoes and other ingredients. Next you add "sopas de pobrecito" to give it a little flavor. Then you cover the pot. After that you put the heat on high.
After you cover the pot you have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour. When that time has passed, open the pot. You serve the soup with some vegetables in deep bowls. Then you ask someone to help you carry them to the table. If you want, you can have one or two chiles and you can also make tortillas.
2009 Winning Essays
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Gonzales Community School
Marc Senteney (Ms. Pino, grade 5)
How Do You Think Your Eating Habits Affect Your Future?
No one knows for sure what the future will bring, but building good habits when you are young, like eating healthy, will make your life more fun and make you live longer. Eating healthy foods gives you more energy. Eating junk food makes you feel tired all the time. Eating does affect your future because if you don't eat foods that are good for you, your body does not have what it needs to work the way it is supposed to.
I am eleven years old. I don't know where I will be in 30 years. I don't know if I will buy a winning lottery ticket or discover some new invention, but I know what I want to be doing. I want to play basketball like my dad does. I want to swim every day like my uncle does. I have a lot of fun playing outside everyday. I am not allowed to stay inside watching TV. My dad always tells me that the habits I form today will be the habits I have tomorrow. He is a basketball coach. He tells me that if I want to be good at shooting, then I have to practice. It is the same with eating. If I want to be a healthy adult, then I have to form good eating habits when I am young.
I know that when I eat healthy foods, I have more energy. I feel stronger, and I can play all day without getting tired. I love to eat fruit. No one has to talk me into eating strawberries. Vegetables are a little harder for me to choose on my own. My grandpa likes to have me help him plant vegetables in his garden. He knows that if I help grow the vegetables, then I am more likely to eat them. He's right. I love tomatoes. We have planted a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. They are fun to watch grow. My grandfather is 80 years old and he is still in really good shape. He still has a lot of energy. He likes to go on long walks. I know that eating good foods gives him the energy he needs to exercise. Exercising makes him feel good about himself, just like playing makes me feel good.
Eating junk food makes me feel tired. I have less energy when I eat foods that have a lot of junk in them. My coaches remind me that Cokes are bad for me because they have a lot of sugar. They tell me to drink water because it is good for me. They try to help me take care of my body. When I eat junk food, I end up feeling hungrier. Then I eat more, which isn't good for me either.
Eating does affect your future because if you eat healthy, you will live longer. Your body will be in better shape and it will function the way it is supposed to. If you eat junk food all the time, you will gain weight. It will be hard to exercise, and a lot of your body will not work the way it is supposed to. Having extra weight is hard on the body. It is harder to exercise, and without exercise your body slows down. The future will be easier to predict. There will be more trips to the doctor and maybe even the hospital.
I know I can't predict the future, but I can guide it. I can eat healthy and make sure I have a lot of energy to do all the things I want to do. I'm only eleven years old, but I want to live a long life like my grandpa has. I like helping my mom cook because I learn a lot about food. She shows me how I can decide what to cook for dinner. I'm also learning a lot about cooking from my Cooking with Kids class. I've learned how to measure and mix different foods, and how to be open to trying new foods. I have also learned how to follow a recipe. I know that I have a choice about what kinds of foods to eat. What I have learned in Cooking with Kids and from my family will guide me today and in the future. I choose to eat healthy.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Sweeney Elementary School
By Elissa Fernando (Ms. Sena, grade 5)
Healthy Eating
I believe you don't have to know how to cook in order to eat healthy because you could just eat some fruits. For example, you could eat an apple, a banana, grapes, strawberries, a pear, or an orange. You can also eat vegetables like carrots, celery, cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, corn, peas, or green beans. When I get home from school, I always want a snack to eat. My sister usually tells me to eat fruits or vegetables.
My grandfather Willie has a garden, but we do not live near my grandparents' house. So instead of driving all the way to our grandparents' house, my sister goes to the store to buy fruits and vegetables. My sister is always making salad. At dinnertime, my sister always makes sure there are vegetables with the meal.
When I grow up, I plan to have my own garden. I also plan to teach my children about healthy eating and what food is healthy and the foods that are not healthy for their bodies.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Cesar Chavez Community School
Sandip Rai (Mr. Rueda, grade 5)
Eating Healthy and Fresh
There are a wide variety of foods to eat. The best choices are the healthy choices. I think a healthy body means eating healthy. The desserts out there, like chocolate banana sundaes, might look good with the cream and extra sprinkles, but they are very unhealthy for your body. I am not saying, "Never eat sweets!" I am just saying not to eat them a lot. This is what eating healthy means to me.
I think the best way to eat is to cook at home. You can make yourself something that is good and healthy. If I eat fast foods there are things that are unhealthy in them. If I eat salad but add ranch dressing, it's going to be unhealthy. That's why I want to learn how to cook.
I learned about eating healthy and cooking from J.B.I. and Cooking with Kids. I was in Cooking with Kids in 3rd and 4th grade. I learned about reading labels and vitamins from J.B.I., a health and nutrition program. That's how I learned about healthy eating from both.
I think eating habits will affect my future very much. If I eat things that have too much fat and sugar it will make my body unhealthy. The best way to know what's in food is to read the food label. The food label tells you how much fat, sugar, and vitamins there are. That is why I think eating habits will affect my future.
My family has taught me a lot about eating healthy. My mom is great at cooking. My mom usually makes us something like lentils, chicken curry, and a lot of chili. That is what I smell when I come to my house after school. Those are some of the things I learned from my family.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay (TIE)
Salazar Elementary School
Marlen Niebla and Grecia Morales Vega (Mr. Peluso, grade 6)
Cooking with Kids by Marlen Niebla
Cooking with Kids is one of my favorite specials. There are many things that I like about it.
Every time we have Cooking with Kids we always try new foods, not just any kind of new foods--healthy new foods. They have plenty of protein, vitamins, and calcium, which I love because it's good for me.
What I really like about this program is cooking the food. You get to mix the ingredients together, like the spices. You also get to cut food, such as onions and measure liquids, like water. Once you're done cooking and tasting you can take the recipe so you can make it at home.
It's also fun to read about the food's culture. Where is it from? Why do we eat it? Was this a special kind of food used in ceremonies? All in all Cooking with Kids is fun. Everyone gets to participate in something, either in cooking the food or helping to pass it out, and once you leave you always learn something new.
Cooking with Kids by Grecia Morales Vega
One of my favorite things about school this year was Cooking with Kids.
I liked Cooking with Kids because it taught you to eat healthy and not just things like salads but other fun things too. We got the chance to make food from all over the world, like Mexico, Italy, South America, Japan, and Africa.
I also think I really liked this cooking program because it taught me that cooking and healthy eating have a lot to do with each other, like the types of ingredients people use and choosing to bake something instead of frying it.
Also, that is one of the main reasons why people eat junk food--because they don't know how to cook.
This program was very enjoyable also because it combined two of my favorite things: cooking and culture. It teaches how the people from other places eat the food and why. It also teaches us to say "good eating" in diverse languages.
I thinking Cooking with Kids was a great program. I liked it so much I'm now thinking of becoming a chef.
Cooking with Kids First Place Essay
Kearny Elementary School
Jacob Martinez (Mrs. Dickey, grade 5)
Be Healthy for Life
Eating healthy will help you for life in so many ways. One of the reasons is a clearer thinking mind; to help you do better in school and to help your cognitive thinking; to help you make good decisions, so there will be more rewards and less consequences.
When you eat in a healthy way, you can help your skin and your hair. It can help your skin by stopping acne. I know some people like to use ProActive or some stuff like that, but if you eat greens you don't have to buy all of that. Shiny hair is just divine and you can get that too, just eat your greens.
For healthy eating, there are a couple of ways to help. One of them is Cooking with Kids because they always make good healthy food. To help you stay within a good weight and make you feel great, healthy eating is a must. Cooking with Kids is a fun way to learn how to be healthy for life.