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Back to School

Veggie Hummus Quesadilla

September 23, 2019 By marketeditor

Photo courtesy of Pattie Garrett

Recipe by Barb Biagioli
Serves 2

If you’ve never tried a hummus quesadilla, you are really missing out! This snack is versatile, great fit for picky eaters, since you can add in whatever ingredients you want. With hummus as the base layer, you can stack beans, spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, tomatoes, corn, peppers, kale, onions, squash, and chickpeas. You can dip them in more hummus, salsa or guacamole. They make a great lunchbox snack, they’re an easy weeknight dinner, or a snack you can cook up quickly in the afternoons.

Ingredients
*Ingredients currently available at the farmers’ market
● 2 large tortilla (Ezekiel, whole wheat, or gluten free)
● ½ – 1 cup hummus*
● ½ onion*, chopped
● 5 cherry tomatoes*, halved
● 1 pepper*, chopped
● 1 cup spinach*
● ½ cup black beans
● 1 tsp chili powder
● 1 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

  1. To a medium skillet, add a bit of water or vegetable stock over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the pepper, cooking for another 5 minutes. Add the cherry tomatoes for 2-3 minutes, the chili powder and garlic powder, and then add the spinach until wilted.
  2. Meanwhile, set out your tortilla out and layer with hummus. On half of the tortilla, add half of your skillet veggies. Add half of the black beans and fold in half.
  3. In the same skillet, add your hummus quesadilla. Cook on each side for 2-3 minutes until warm and crispy, lightly browned. Remove from the heat and cut into 4 triangles with a pizza cutter.
  4. Repeat with the remaining tortilla.
  5. Serve the quesadillas with additional hummus for dipping, salsa, mashed avocado or guacamole.

    Note: This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled for party snacks and larger crowds.

Filed Under: News, Seasonal Recipes Tagged With: Back to School, cherry tomatoes, hummus, onion, pepper, quesadilla, Spinach

Healthy Back to School Snacks

September 23, 2019 By marketeditor

By Barb Biagioli

It’s that time of year again: Back to School. This typically means back to messy mudrooms, crazy schedules, pick-ups, drop-offs, empty refrigerators and unorganized pantries, and most scary of all, “hangry” kids running amok in the afternoon hours, impatiently awaiting a snack.

If you’re back to school this season, having snacks ready to go is key to preventing meltdowns and madness. With a little bit of preparation, you can make a week’s worth of snacks ahead of time – ones to take to work, pack in kid’s lunches, keep in the fridge for after school snacks, or take on the road. I’m often asked what snacks are best for kids, what’s easy and best for on-the-go, or can be made ahead of time, so I’ll share a few of my tips with you.

Photo courtesy of Pattie Garrett

1. Avoid snacks that come in a box, bag or wrapper, and use your local farmer’s market to inspire healthy snacks for yourself and your kids! Keep it simple, nutritious, and colorful and snacking will be tasty and fun.

2. Cut, chop, and prep easy staple snacks – like veggies for dipping – in containers in advance of the school week.

Photo courtesy of Pattie Garrett

3. Dig out old baby food containers – you know, the ones you used for freezing pureed baby food. They’re ideal individual snack trays for your children. You can make sweet or savory trays using farmer’s market produce – try cherry tomatoes, zucchini, and carrots with hummus in the center for dipping. Or slice apple, pear, and place roasted sweet potatoes into the tray paired with nut butter.

4. Make healthy green muffins for the week, double the batch and place them in your freezer for later in the month.

Photo courtesy of Pattie Garrett

5. Throw together a hummus quesadilla with whatever suitable produce you have left in the house. Otherwise known as the “everything but the kitchen sink” hummus quesadilla. I’ll show you how.

Seasonally, we are edging out of summer produce but still relishing in tomatoes, peppers, and dark leafy greens, as we’re also sharing in the wonders of the autumn harvest! The best of both worlds colliding to yield a farmer’s market bounty that is overflowing from bins and baskets – the perfect inspiration for our “anything goes” quesadillas. There are a few fun ways to put together a hummus quesadilla, but certainly no wrong way as long as you have some veggies on hand, hummus and tortilla wraps.

Filed Under: Featured Article, homepage feature, News Tagged With: Back to School, hummus, kids, prep, quesadilla, snacks

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We have plenty of produce in season, with tomatoes being the star of the show 🍅✨ With dozens of different varieties from our vendors, you’ll find plenty to make shakshuka (recipe on our website from last week!), sandwiches, soups, and more 🙂 

Corn and zucchini are also in season, perfect for a summer salad 🌽🥗

We hope to see you at High Rock Park today from 9-1!
It’s National Farmers’ market week! Stop by an It’s National Farmers’ market week! Stop by and celebrate with us tomorrow from 9-1 at High Rock Park! We will be joined by Saratoga’s Office for the Aging, CDPHP Comfort Food Community, Bicycle Benefits, the Academy for Life Long Learning and CCE Master Gardener! Tomorrows musicians are the Acorns and Running the River 🎉 Hope to see you there!

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Join us for POP Kids’ Club week 6! 4-H Robotics Join us for POP Kids’ Club week 6!

4-H Robotics Group will be bringing plenty of robots for kids to watch, play with, and even operate 🤖 Along with a larger robot that can be driven around!

We’ll also have supplies out for kids to construct their own designs with some produce and toothpicks 🍎🥦🛠

We hope to see you at High Rock Park tomorrow, Wednesday 8/3, any time between 3-6pm!
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There are so many great vendors and products here today for our Blueberry Festival!

We have…
Blueberry Lime jam from Kokinda Farm
Blueberry Lavender Lemonade from Slate Valley Farm
Blueberry hand pies from Nightwork Bread
Blueberry “woofles” from Mugsy’s Barkery
Adirondack Jill PB (with blueberries!) from Saratoga Peanut Butter Co.
Blueberry stickers
Fun crafts
And more!

We hope to see you today at High Rock, we’ll be here until 1! ☀️

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