A recent San Francisco Chronicle Dollars and Sense Column inspired my blog this week on doing more with less. This week in our Nextcourse Soul Food cooking class we are using ingredients that we already have on hand to make an appetizing, Portuguese kale soup with kielbasa turkey sausage. This is an inexpensive and delightful stew made with purple kale, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes and bell peppers. We also had corn bread on the side and a simple sweet potato pie for dessert. This stew is very nutritious with vitamins such as vitamin K, vitamin C and vitamin A which we need for a strong healthy body. There’s another added bonus, this stew is very filling. We fed 16 people from the rustic heart warming stew. Thanks to the generosity of our community food donations, our total cost was $14.50, which comes to roughly 90 cents per person. This stew reminds me of when I was a child and my mother put all of the leftover vegetables and meats from the refrigerator in a pot and cooked them down. It fed a lot of people and we were all satisfied and thankful for the wonderful meal and the time we spent with family. ~Nicole, Soul Food Project Assistant
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