Community Cooking: feeds the soul

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Chef Trevor Daneker /Cindy ElderChef Trevor Daneker is a nutrition education coordinator for the Community Cooking program of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Community Cooking empowers food pantry clients to make smarter, healthier choices.

Hands-on cooking is combined with in-depth study of nutritional issues that can have a profound effect on people’s health as well as on their food budget. By incorporating more vegetables and healthy proteins, clients gain a measure of control over their food security.

Here is chef Trevor’s riff on baked apples and sweet potatoes.

Baked Apples and Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

5 sweet potatoes (cooked)

4 apples

1/4 - 1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup butter

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 cup hot water

2 tablespoons honey

method

1. Boil 5 sweet potatoes in water until they are almost tender.

2. After the sweet potatoes cool, peel and slice them.

3. Peel the apples, remove the cores and slice the apples.

4. Preheat the oven to 400º  F.

5. Grease a casserole dish with butter.

6. Put a layer of sweet potatoes on the bottom of the dish.

7. Add a layer of apple slices.

8. Add some sugar, salt and tiny pieces of butter to the apple layer.

9. Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8 to make more layers of sweet potatoes, apples and sugar/salt.

10. On the top layer of apples, sprinkle the rest of the brown sugar and butter pieces.

11. Sprinkle the top layer with nutmeg.

12. Mix the hot water and honey together. Pour the mix over the top layer.

13. Bake for about 30 minutes until apples are tender.

Yields 8 servings