The New Year with Brainfood Community MVP’s

From Guest Blogger Carolyn Panzarella, Brainfood MVPs intern....

The New Year has brought a whirlwind of new projects and recipes to the MVPs kitchen.  We have made homemade poptarts, turkey tacos and a delicious baked potato soup to name a few.  A highlight cooking session was our breakfast day when we made a scrumptious breakfast pizza topped with fried eggs and potato latkes with cinnamon apples.  Thank you to the Deb of the Smitten Kitchen blog for providing the recipes (www.smittenkitchen.com).  We have sent the author pictures of the class and their creations and are hoping she’ll give us a shout-out on her blog!

Our latest project was applying for a grant through Youth Service America to raise awareness of childhood hunger.   If given to us, the grant money will go towards a workshop with the Homeless Children’s Project in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of DC.  The students wrote the grant as a group and included their personal passion and research about childhood hunger in the DC area.  It was a rigorous process through which the students were able to gain experience grant writing and honed in on their group writing skills.   We are eagerly awaiting the response from YSA. 

The students are now all breathing a sigh of relief after completing the grant and midterms.  We are now gearing up for our next round of workshops.  Thank you all for your hard work!

- Carolyn Panzarella, Brainfood MVPs intern