March 16, 2022 / Klamath County School District cooks spent a morning testing recipes that use locally grown ingredients – fingerling potatoes from Circle C in Malin and eggs from ‘Poe’ tential Farms in Poe Valley – to determine the best way to serve the fresh ingredients during meals over the next two months.
The fingerling potatoes will be featured in school cafeterias the last week of March, and the local eggs will be served in April as part of the district’s growing Farm to School program.
Patty Case, OSU Extension Farm to School manager, and Jordan Rainwater, KCSD’s Farm to School coordinator, led the training that tested recipes of baby potatoes persillade and vegetable frittata.
“We’re doing different versions to determine whether it’s feasible to make for an entire school and also to taste test to make sure kids will like it,” Case said.
Fourteen cooks from six schools -- Brixner Junior High, Henley Middle, Henley High, and Peterson, Malin, and Ferguson elementaries – joined in. They will share the outcomes and recommendations with cooks from the other KCSD schools.
KCSD’s Farm to School program works with local farmers to bring fresh produce and meat into school cafeterias. Each month, a different food is featured. In May, cafeterias will serve Flying T Beef, and in the fall, plans are to buy and serve local melons from a farm near Stewart Lennox.
For fun recipes and more information on Farm to School menus and activities, go to our website: https://www.kcsd.k12.or.us/district/farm-to-school.cfm
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