BBQ Plate (pulled pork)

Yesterday was BBQ Pulled Pork, Coleslaw, Potato Chips, and a Chocolate Chip Cookie! Apple sauce instead of coleslaw for the younger kids.

Little Valley Academy

Valley Fellowship Christian Academy K5-12TH Grade

Slow cooked, pulled pork video I posted awhile back explaining how to do it:

Quick Kids Pizza Any Diet

Hear me out! As long as you can turn your oven on high as it will go, slide a cookie sheet/pan (or square stone) in there, and the oven doesn't take all day to heat up...you can feed pizza to your kids quickly with a crispy crust!  

Tortillas seem to come in any size, and any diet nowadays. Wheat, white, corn, gluten free...it's amazing really. For the basic I use white, flour tortillas. Turn oven up as far as it will go, you can stick pizza in before it reaches temperature and then check it in about five minutes to gage where it's at. Sauce (marinara, BBQ, Alfredo, pesto...), toppings, slide in oven with spatula or upside down tray, on top of hot tray or stone (I can do four small pizzas on my stone) bake till crispy and cheese/topping bubbling(five to ten minutes). Next round, if there is one, pizzas will cook quicker. If you have trouble getting them out just pinch end of crust with tongs and drag on top tray or plate.

Look at the crust on that puzza, thin, crispy, great color!

**if your a purist or a "professional" then maybe this isn't for you! But it's great for moms and dads that want something hot and quick without making / keeping actual dough or premade crusts around. And now your tortillas are much more versatile.**

Breakfast For Lunch!

Everyone seems to love eating breakfast at lunch! Today was a little different and since breakfast originally fell on Labor Day on the calendar I figured lets just move it to the end of the week. Fridays are usually pizza day. We order from Dominoes...it helps me work on receiving orders (from trucks), paperwork, and extra cleaning.

Little Valley Academy gets a sausage biscuit, hash rounds(w/ketchup), and mixed fruit!

Valley Fellowship Christian Academy (K5-12TH) gets scrambled eggs, hash rounds, biscuit and sausage gravy, and of course ketchup and real butter. We scramble real eggs, cook the sausage, make the sausage gravy...Shown is the High School plate.

Chicken and Waffles, Cinnamon Apples

Before school started this year I actually started Chicken and Waffles with the LVA (Little Valley Academy) kids. But today was the first time for all grades to be able to order. It was one of the best ordered lunches so far this year! *Here is the prior post Chicken and Waffles*

VFCA (Valley Fellowship Christian Academy) High School plate: Crispy Chicken Filet, Waffles, Butter, Syrup, Fresh Cinnamon Apple Slices...

Baked Ziti, Mixed Vegetable, Garlic Bread

Baked Ziti in essence is another form of Lasagna as far as kids are concerned. Here it is pictured made with penne pasta and not ziti. What's the difference? Not much. If I can't find the one, I buy the other. We make it here at the kitchen. Cook the meat, salt the water and boil the pasta, season the tomato sauce (made out of puree and blanched chopped tomatoes) and layer with Mozzarella and a Cheddar/Monterrey Jack cheese mix. The kids are always worrying about getting the cheese, so I started putting a layer of the cheese in the middle AND on top. (that's what makes it similar to lasagna besides just ingredients, another layer) 

The mixed vegetable shown is called a Cali Blend: Broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots (I think it used to be called Normandy Blend). I season the veggies with a small amount of salt. And sometimes a dash of salt-free Ms. Dash original seasoning. Most veggies I buy frozen or fresh, usually never canned (except for maybe tomato products). Fresh obviously has no extras added BUT canned or frozen foods I always check the ingredients list. At the most I want the ingredient list to include the main product like tomatoes, then water, and/or salt...nothing else.

LVA, K5-12TH all pretty much get the same thing as shown in the picture but in grade appropriate portions. The picture shown is for Little Valley Academy. On our menu I use the listing bread/roll because some days I use rolls or buns and then some days I make my own bread or bread sticks!

Leave a comment to ask questions about our school lunches or anything related!

Tomorrow: Chicken & Waffles!