by David Salerno | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
If you’ve been reading these long enough you know my philosophy with knives; Get a good chef’s knife, get a paring knife, get a bread knife. This will cover 95% of what you’ll need to do in a kitchen. Everything you add after will simply do the jobs...
by hungerintervention | Jun 23, 2023 | Blog, Senior Community Meals, Volunteers
In this month’s volunteer spotlight we’re meeting Sydne. Sydne joined our volunteer team last year after retiring from her career in nursing. Today she helps with meal prep for the Senior Community Meal every Wednesday morning, and serving at the East African Senior...
by hungerintervention | Jun 15, 2023 | Blog
We’re very excited to welcome many new faces to the HIP team this month! Read more about Cameron, Ryan, and Rachel below. Cameron Baker Community Engagement & Events Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA Cameron (he/him) is a recent UW graduate from the Food Systems...
by David Salerno | Jun 6, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
At HIP we recently made a yellow Thai curry. The base is a curry paste which includes garlic, lemongrass, salt, shallot, galangal, dried red chili, coriander seed, kefir lime peel, curry powder, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, cardamom, and nutmeg. While most of these...
by David Salerno | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
Did you know that canned, diced tomatoes are treated so they actually hold their shape longer? I know this might seem obvious, but diced tomatoes aren’t just….well…diced tomatoes. They’re actually diced tomatoes with calcium chloride and citric...
by hungerintervention | May 30, 2023 | Advocacy, Blog
By Kendall Rice Last school year, students in the Seattle Public School District received free meals from waivers issued by the USDA. Last summer, the waivers were removed, and now students must meet requirements to receive free and reduced-price meals. Being a...
