Sancocho Recipe and Lesson Plan

Sancocho Recipe and Lesson Plan

Mar 21, 2013

Sancocho (Soup) y Ensalada (Salad) Let’s say good-bye to winter with this warm comforting soup, and welcome in fresh greens with an enlivening salad.  Sancocho recipe inspired by the Go Green East Harlem Cookbook.  Read about how it became vegan here. Vocabulary yucca – a root vegetable starch – an important element of our nutrition. […]

Sancocho!

Sancocho!

Mar 20, 2013

For the last day of winter, the kids and I created a warm and delicious sancocho, a stew that I first learned about while living in Santo Domingo.  The stew is rich and creamy and contains a medley of soothing starches like yucca, yautia (we used yams), plantain, and potato.  There’s something truly marvelous about the soothing quality of […]