The 4-H Cooking Club held its first meeting last week. Club members started the meeting by playing a get-to-know-you game. Club Leaders, Ben Knowles and Laura Day, then explained how to start a cooking project book. For their cooking activity, club members learned about sweet potatoes and how to make different side dishes from sweet potatoes. Club members observed cooking demonstrations on how to bake sweet potatoes and how to make sweet potato fries. All the club members worked together to make a big pot of mashed sweet potatoes.
Here are a few things Club members learned about sweet potatoes:
-Sweet potatoes are very nutritious. Sweet potatoes are a good source of Vitamins A and C, potassium, beta carotene, and dietary fiber.
-Sweet potatoes can be found in most grocery stores, year-round, and are very reasonably priced.
-Sweet potatoes are very versatile and can be used to make side dishes or used to make desserts.
Check out pictures from the first meeting on Facebook.
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