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Insomnia Cookies in New Haven

Submitted by Brittney

Help Common Ground Win a Teaching Kitchen

Common Ground (www.commongroundct.orgis a finalist to win an AWESOME TEACHING KITCHEN from Ikea - a $10,000 makeover to our farmhouse classroom that will allow us to do much more learning, cooking, and eating with kids!  A teaching kitchen in the farmhouse would mean that we can make salad, bake bread, invent salsa recipes, scramble up eggs, and make pizzas whenever we want to.  Right now our cooking programs are limited to the times that we can access the high school kitchen – sometimes challenging as our school chefs work hard to feed 200 people per day and process and preserve all the food from our farm. Our whole community would benefit from a teaching kitchen: our high school students who can learn new culinary skills, adults who come for cooking and food preservation workshops, and young children in after school and summer camp programs who cook with and try new foods!

Ikea will decide who wins the $10,000 makeover based on the number of votes texted in by the community from January 6th through January 20th.  You can text once per day, and every vote counts!  We need YOU to text every day from now through January 20th!

Text LIFE35 to 62345 today and every day until January 20th!   Send your text now!
As far as I can tell, this does NOT sign you up for any spam texts from Ikea.  You’ll get a texted response confirming your vote and offering an opportunity to receive promotions from Ikea by text, but you can just ignore the offer if you are not interested.Tell your friends and family!  Put it on Facebook!  We need your help!
Crossing our fingers,
Common Ground

Winterfest Holiday Party in Branford

Submitted by Robin

Homemade Gnocchi by ZINC

Written by Chef Denise Appel from ZINC & Kitchen ZINC

We love to cook. And we know good food brings families together. That’s why we’ve spent the past few years sharing many of our popular market menu dishes and some of our all-time favorite recipes on our blog. We’ve been getting requests for some time now to help shed some light on family friendly recipes that inspire even the tiniest of chefs to help make—and pick up their forks to eat without a battle.

To us the holidays mean family, and that means family friendly recipes! With the holiday season rapidly approaching, we thought there was no time like the present [get it] to share our go-to kid-pleasers with the kidHaven family to enjoy at home.

This is one of my favorite recipes—it just feels like home. Making this classic ricotta gnocchi reminds me of my time in my grandmother’s kitchen, rolling gnocchi dough, making homemade sauce and eventually sharing a delectable dish for dinner [and so much more].

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Wine Tasting to Benefit St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Submitted by Brittney