Category: Recipes

  • Kwanzaa Salad – Superfood Recipe Lesson

    RECIPE Ingredients: Yield: 6-8 servings 1 2 pounds seedless grapes 3 oranges 4 kiwi fruit 1 can diced peaches (15 ounce) 1 can pineapple chunks (20 ounce) 1 cup coconut flakes 1 lime Directions: 1. Peel kiwi and cut into small bite size pieces. 2. Peel oranges and separate them into sections. 3. Cut grapes…

  • Chicken Salad (W)rap

    Ashley 5th Graders learn  to make a tasty and healthy Chicken Salad Rap, with their teachers Mr. Herd and Mr. Zwick.  They make a song about it, too! Recipe: My Pyramid Chicken Salad Wrap INGREDIENTS 1 – 2 lb. seedless grapes 1 – 2 lb. romaine lettuce, bagged 8 oz. plain yogurt 12 6 whole…

  • Corn and Bean Salad for YOU!

    Ashley 5th graders make a corn and bean salad with their teachers. 

  • Humming for Hummus

    Ashley 4th and 5th graders learn how to make Hummus with teacher Mr. Zwick.  

  • Kwanzaa Salad Celebrates Family

    Ashley 5th graders talk about the meaning of the Kwanzaa Holiday and what it’s like to make a Kwanzaa Salad in class.

  • Healthy Food For Thanksgiving

    Can kids like healthy foods for Thanksgiving? Click these links to hear a 2-minute answer with a special song, from Ashley 5th graders Melody, Ronald, Ruth, Edgar, Anna, Omar, Thomas:.  Here are their healthy ideas.  Ashley student reporters learned their friends’ favorite vegetable  . . . and what they DON’T like . . . The 5th grades say that…

  • Pumpkin Superfood and Pumpkin Parfait

      Click here to see slideshow. (with Quicktime Player) With Halloween right around the corner, bright orange pumpkins are making their festive annual debut. KRCCs Ellen Mahoney visited the pumpkin patch at Rock Creek Farm in Broomfield and talked with farmer Scott Miller. Then Ellen went to Swansea Elementary School in Denver when she met with…

  • Super Salad Contest – Entry form at Ashley

      Editor’s Note:  This video shows students sampling the popular, student-invented salads that were featured at Ashley’s International Day.  On this day, a big green mailbox was next to the salad bar, along with “voting” forms, and students voted on their favorite salad of the six finalists there at the salad bar.  The top fruit…

  • Invent a Salsa!

    Ashley Elementary 5th grade class have fun with their teachers making salsa . . . and trying it, too! Recipe: Invent-a-Salsa: Tomato Salsa INGREDIENTS: 4 tomatoes cut into 2 pieces 1 Anaheim chili pepper cut into 4 pieces 1 bell pepper cut into 2 pieces 1 small red onion cut into 4 small pieces (1/12…