Cooking at the Library

I was contacted several months ago by Myguail of the DeKalb Public Library to see if I could do some cooking classes for teens.  I said sure, we came up with a menu, he came up with a grant and we were set.  Today was the first class.

I woke this morning about 5 which is ridiculously early, but I fell asleep early last night.  Since I was up I went ahead and did bird maintenance - refilling hummingbird feeders and bird baths, cat maintenance - food and water and made my menu for next week.  I had everyone in and around our house fed or ready for shopping.

I then went to Jazzercise, came home, had a bowl of cereal and left for the library.  There were 20 teens registered for Healthy Cooking for Teens so that was exciting.  I had a lot of equipment and supplies to tote and organize because this was a library after all, not a kitchen.   I am pretty organized though.

I got to the library about 10:45 and got set up.  I had lots of room and a very nice librarian Nancy to help.  The teens started arriving about 11:30, they were excited, that was good and we chatted some.  The program started at noon and after introductions we started cooking.  I very much needed the assistance of the teens and happily they were all ready to pitch in.  I started water boiling and burgers cooking.  They made sauce, got pitas ready, got the zucchini pasta salad ready and made smoothies.  We worked well as a team!  We were ready to eat at 12:45.  Perfect timing. 

The good cooking smells went through the library and I think there were some patrons and staff that were not teens that were ready to eat, but we had plenty and everyone enjoyed lunch.

I'm having burgers myself for dinner.  A quick easy meal for after library cooking.