NH Healthy Meals Competition

Above Joey is making his tasty quesadillas.

Saturday November 17th NH Healthy Meals CompetitionPost by: Bob McIntosh

Three CHS Culinary Arts students entered the NH Healthy Meals Competition at the  beginning of October. The contest is a state version of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign. It requires culinary arts students to design a healthy recipe that has student appeal, fits the USDA guidelines for the school lunch program and utilizes local, farm to table ingredients. All recipes will be available for use by school lunch programs across the country.

Finalists were chosen from the recipes submitted and those teams competed November 17 at Southern New Hampshire University by producing their recipes.

One team was Shannon Geher and Zoran Garic cooking their version of apple cider pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw and roasted potato smiles. The other was Joey Parkinson producing his version of chicken, apple and caramelized onion quesadillas with a brown Spanish rice. Both of our teams were first year culinary students competing against the other teams ,which were all second year students from other schools. All of their hard work paid off as team Shannon and Zoran took 3rd place and Team Joey took 2nd place. Congratulation and well done folks!

Above Shannon & Zoran assemble their trays for the judges.