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Bread Renewed: Dried Cherry Bread Pudding
The versatility of day-old bread is its saving grace. It's not uncommon to see our food processor whirling bread into crumbs to later go in meatballs. Just as often we will cut it up into little cubes and bake into croutons. Another creative use of the bread that we...
The fish dish for people who don’t like fish
Although fish can often be a difficult recipe to impress a crowd, herbed white fish casserole always goes over very well with our Senior Meals guests and has become a regular part of the menu. The recipe was fished out of an old cook book and adapted for us by one of...
When life gives you bananas…
Who doesn’t love a great banana bread recipe? We sure do! The great part about banana bread is that you want the bananas to be past their prime ripeness, when most people would want to throw them out. Luckily for HIP, when we get a large quantity of bananas we can...
What is hunger?
How long do you have to go without food to be hungry? Do you have to miss a meal regularly to say that you are facing hunger? How frequently does that have to be? Once a week or month? How about once a year? Is hunger a mental state where you are hungry even when you...
Introducing our newest Board Member — Yuri Kim!
Please welcome Yuri Kim, our newest Board Member! We are very excited to have him join our team. Yuri Kim is the Community Impact Manager of Family Stability for United Way of King County where he manages United Way’s investments in financial impact, childhood hunger,...
Meet Phoenica!
Hello hello! This is Phoenica here, the new AmeriCorps member at this wonderful place known was HIP. You’re probably wondering how to pronounce the name, so I’ll give you a tip: my name is “Phoenix” (my hometown) and “America” squished together. No worries if you get...
Hungry kids can’t learn in school
“What I liked about it is I get food every Thursday, and there’s yummy food and there’s bars and nice food and I like that there’s soup. Thank u for the food” - A student from Briarcrest elementary school who received our Healthy HIP Packs It is back to school...
Blueberries, kickball, and bubbles: Summer Meals in review
School is back in session but, if you can, try to reflect back all the way to the beginning of the summer. In early June we start to fill up our fridges, freezers, and pantries in preparation for summer meals. We expand from one weekly prep shift to four weekly prep...
The top 17 things I learned as a HIP AmeriCorps
You learn a lot as an AmeriCorps member at HIP, especially if it’s your first year out of college and first year-long job. I’ve always been told that the best way to learn anything is to just jump in and not be afraid to make mistakes, and at HIP I was given the...
HIP and the Summer Meals Program
Danielle, one of the HIP Summer Meals AmeriCorps interns, wrote this blog post explaining how the Summer Meals Program work and her experience in working at HIP this summer. I always looked forward to family meals as a child. I am the youngest in a family of six...
