And while I am waiting for the thing to download, and we are on the subject of food, I got an email this morning for the recipe for Piggy Pie. It seems one of the children is particularly fond of Piggy Pie.
The actual recipe comes from a book I read on Medieval food and cooking. The original was a honey based recipe, and I "foxed" it by adding ketchup.
The recipe I regularly use at school has pork, but chicken can also be used. You bake the meat, and especially the pork until all the fat is cooked off. Then, using a pair of kitchen sheers, you cut the meat into bite sized pieces and put it in a heavy bottom (so the mix won't burn) pot with equal amounts of ketchup and brown sugar and fruit juice. You boil this mix for about 20 minutes. It can be served on whole grain noodles or brown rice, or as a sandwich material. Kids really love this stuff. It saves in the refrigerator a week once cooked.
This meal was initially used in a Medieval week during a banquet just for the kids, and they liked it so much we have made it part of our fall and winter and spring fare. It's a favorite. We will be having it on Tuesday. I bought a 10 pound roast, so there will be plenty.
One of these days, like in the next couple of weeks, we expect to have our food inspection. This will mean a check on how we are doing at providing food to children. I'm looking forward to this because we have worked so hard this year to make every single meal we serve to our children outstanding.
The video is from Food Navigator and is about the Obama Food Policies. This is the kind of thing I look at all the time.
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