Feed Mom Fresh on Mother’s Day

May 8, 2009
by Christine Yeres

Marla, the chef for the “Feed Me Fresh” program that provides over 200 meals a day for workers and participants in Mt. Kisco Child Care Center and My Second Home, has provided her recipe for Whole Wheat Soba Noodles as a Mother’s Day gift for families who might want to help make Sunday a no-cooking day for Mom.  For “Feed Me Fresh,” Marla uses nothing frozen or out of cans, only ingredients that are in season and available locally, many from local farmers.

Marla’s Whole Wheat Soba Noodles
Serves 4

Ingredients

Dressing

Rice vinegar   1/8 Cup

Soy sauce   1/8 Cup

Grape seed oil ½ Cup

Sesame oil   1 Teaspoon

Lemon juice   1 Teaspoon

Fresh grated ginger ½ Teaspoon

Honey   ½ Tablespoon

Cook & Cool      
 
12.8 ounces Whole Wheat Soba Noodles
 
Then shred:

1 red pepper

1 cucumber

1 carrot

6 radishes

Use black sesame seeds for garnish

Prepare Dressing

Mix shredded vegetables with cooled cooked noodles

Pour dressing on noodles and garnish with black sesame seeds

Mt. Kisco Child Care Center serves about 150 children; My Second Home, about 90 adults, 50 of whom are at the center on any given day.  Both are part of an innovative intergenerational program in which “young children play music and garden with seniors, and also learn to enjoy racing to hold doors open for them at the end of the day.” See NewCastleNOW.org article of February 20, 2009, “Not your mother’s old-age home.”

For more menu ideas, click to see Mt. Kisco Child Care Center’s May 2009 menu: Yummmm.
Click to learn more about My Second Home.
Click to learn more about Mt. Kisco Child Care Center.