After our field trip to visit our CSA farm, the children have been incredibly interested in the weekly delivery that we receive from the farm. Each delivery provides the children with the opportunity to learn to recognize and appreciate vegetables that they may be unfamiliar with and to learn simple cooking techniques as they utilize the produce to prepare simple, fresh, nutritious snacks. This week, one of the highlights of our share were the bags brimming with beautiful emerald savoy spinach leaves which the children used to prepare spinach dip.
During the independent work period, many of the children perform practical life activities to prepare the mise en place. For this recipe, some of the children chose to carefully wash the spinach leaves,
peel garlic cloves,
carefully mince garlic cloves,
or finely grate an onion.
Later, many of them opted to work together as a small group to combine the ingredients.