HIP
TIMES
As April
begins we are all certainly getting more
enthusiastic about the thought of getting into
our gardens, in the case of city residents a
community garden, a raised bed or a simple
planting box on the balcony or window sill is in
order. However we urge all city residents to
avoid planting near or on your fire escape.
It
is extremely important to keep you fire escape
free and clear! Fire Fighter Dayna who will be
linking with the new site to teach children fire
safety in the kitchen might be plenty concerned
with anything that obscures a safe emergency
route plan.
Dayna is celebrating just being awarded a 501 c
(3) designation and we wish her the very best,
Dayna has been an integral part of fire safety
for children across the country for a very long
time along with her canine hero friend Sparkles
the Fire Safety Dog.
So
take it from Dayna and Sparkles and keep those
fire escapes free and clear and our kid’s fire
safe.
Hip4Kids is happy to announce our cooking demos
have launched this year for the ninth straight
year of programming in our bid to combat
childhood obesity, type II diabetes and cancer.
The first “Cookshop” which we are now after nine
years
“renaming” launched at P.S. 256 in Bedford
Stuyvesant with the kind support of The New York
Road Runners whom we hope to be working with
soon again.
The pictures which are worth a thousand words
will be posting to our new “Monthly Bulletin
Board” and we would again like to thank Road
Runners Foundation President Mr. Cliff Sperber,
Coriel Gaffney, Chef Rob Burmeister and Hip4Kids
staff diabetes educator Max Fleurival. In
addition we would like to also thank all of the
teachers, parents and the principal of P.S. 256
for the enthusiastic welcome. This coming week
will see the presentation of the Hip4Kids “ HIP
COOKING” Demo to two hundred parent coordinators
which we have arranged with the gracious
assistance of Melissa Gelber at The Department
of Education here in New York City. The
objective is to show the many parents who are so
very active in education and decision making the
effectiveness of our integrated educational
curriculum available over
www.hip4kids.org
and the
practical use of “HIP COOKING” as a hands on
approach for Mom, Dad, Caregivers and their
children.
This years Victory Garden Contest now in its
ninth year has a new “judge” Ms. Linda Borghi of
Abundant Life Farms who is our resident expert
on Biodynamic farming will make the final
decisions this fall. Don’t forget to take your
pictures and send them in for Linda the Farmer.
On
the note of the Victory Garden we are also
pleased to announce our cooperation with Chef
Billy Doherty Project Manager for School Food
Plus at SchoolFoods and his exceptional effort
to bring gardening to the classroom through The
“Garden to Café “ Program spearheaded by
SchoolFoods, New York State Agriculture and the
many “Green “ proponents citywide. Hip4Kids is
also looking forward to the combined effort with
New York City Parks where we will reach out to
all Community Gardeners to teach effective ways
to cook the produce that they grow.
The tentative date for our first community
festival is May 29th in Harlem and we look forward to the participation of the
over thirty community partners signed on with us
for that event. We plan on five festivals this
year and are very eager to launch our campaign;
we have come a long way since our first festival
in Marcus
Garvey Park
in Harlem eight
years ago.
We
would also like to announce two new board
members here at Hip4Kids ,Max Fleurival who has
been a mainstay of our cooking demos, diabetes
prevention education and advisory panel for
three years is moving up to the board of
directors and Adam Moore of Moore Creative
Living
www.moorecreativeliving.com
who was in the recent past Director of
Recreation for NYC Parks & Recreation .When it
comes to fitness professionals you cannot top
Adam in our opinion. We will post the formal
invite to the first festival once the planning
is finished and look forward to reader
comments…Have a very HIP Spring…now get growing!
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Spicy Tilapia
-- pan seared and quick --
-
One or Two Frozen Tilapia
Filets
-
Garlic Powder
-
Lemon Slice
-
Hot Sauce (Tabasco or
Frank's Hot Sauce)
-
Paprika
-
Ground Cayenne Pepper
-
Ground Black Pepper
-
Sliced Almonds
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Spinach
-
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
-
Apple Juice
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Thaw
the filets in warm water and strain.
Wash spinach and drain (or spin it
out). Get your non-stick pan on med.
heat. When hot add olive oil, wait a
minute, and add fish. There are a lot
of spices listed, you can do them in
varying amounts or can leave off
different ones entirely. I like to
simply dust the fish and pan with each
powdered/ground spice above (not too
much -- lightly). Add a few
dashes of the hot sauce to both fish and
pan. Quick squeeze of lemon. Mix
spices in pan with hot sauce. When the
fish is cooked on one side (half way
through the filet), flip it, add sliced
almonds, and dust very lightly with
powdered/ground spices again. Gently
add enough apple juice to the pan (not
fish) to get it simmering, mix with the
spices, and reduce it. Swish the
reducing juice around every now and
then. When fish is cooked though
(flakey with fork), add it to a bed of
fresh spinach and scrape any remaining
spices and yummies on to the fish.
This
recipe looks complicated, but it is
actually really easy. |
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