The Instructor’s Guide includes several sample recipes that we found work well in the mobile setting. Those recipes were pulled from a lot of different sources and every effort was made to credit them appropriately.
Many came from past “Dinner Tonight!” recipe books. Dinner Tonight! is a popular Texas A&M AgriLife Extension program that features live community events or shows as well as a very useful website for recipe and food prep ideas. The website dinnertonight.tamu.edu is chock-full of great information and easy, nutritious recipes. There are also lots of videos for all you visual learners!
Other recipes were carefully selected from the internet. As internet information goes, things change pretty fast and often there are multiple links that make it difficult to determine original sources. One of our favorite recipes is “Salmon Cakes and Ginger Mayonnaise“. In the guide it is credited as coming from http://everydaypaleo.com/salmon-cakes-with-homemade-ginger-mayo/ which is where I first found it when it was shared by a friend. Currently, that site redirects to https://sarahfragoso.com/salmon-cakes-with-homemade-ginger-mayo/. So, we want to make sure to give credit and a shout out to Sarah Fragoso for that awesome recipe!
Another one I love came from buzzfeed.com. The Chickpea and Black Bean Salad was featured in an email, or a social media post, or somewhere I saw with the title “This Chickpea And Black Bean Salad Is What Your Body Needs”. By generally accepted nutrition principles, it really is good stuff! After looking back at the site, I’m not sure who came up with this recipe, but it is awesome, and I want to say thank you!
So, a word of caution… any recipe selected for use in a mobile cooking school should agree with the principles of MyPlate and be nutritionally sound while supporting healthy eating patterns. Whereas the internet has a lot of great stuff, not everything is always as it seems. Also, it’s important for your recipes to be people tested and nutrition educator approved…in other words: it should taste good and be good for you!
Check the Helpful Links page for good sites to find recipes!