by Abigail Miller | Aug 12, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, Summer
The last day of the Summer Session found us dwindling in numbers (lots of students out on vacation) and yearning for a little relaxation. To commemorate the last day, I convinced the best pizza chef I know, my husband, Josh, to take a day off from work and teach the...
by Abigail Miller | Jul 13, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, cuisine, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, practical life
Let me begin with confession- first of all, the pictures I am about to show are nearly three weeks old (my camera broke and while it was being replaced I used my husbands which does not upload as easily); second, although I love receiving the school’s weekly CSA...
by Abigail Miller | Jul 5, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, cusine, food cultivation, Food Preparation, gardening, Longmont Preschool, practical life
The Fava Beans were finally ready for harvesting (this proverbial spring delight came a little later than normal as we held off due to unfavorable planting conditions). Fava Beans are undoubtedly one of the best plants to grow in a children’s garden; these...
by Abigail Miller | Jun 24, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, CSA, cuisine, empanadas, food cultivation, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“I used to think that food came out of boxes bags and jarsbut then I learned it really comes from gardens and from farms.It also comes from water like the oceans and the seasand journeys to our tables where we say bon appetit.”- Bon Appetit by Cathy Fink...
by Abigail Miller | Jun 21, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Food Preparation, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“As a genius of construction, man raises himself above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from...
by Abigail Miller | May 10, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Farm to School Program, food cultivation, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity....