DSANV Cooking Club

The DSANV Cooking Club is focused on maximizing choice, ensuring hands-on engagement, using adaptations (as needed to ensure safety) and promoting families cooking together.
Offerings alternate by season.
Cooking Club Classes

Come join us in some Fall Fun! We’ll peel and slice apples, and using air fryers we’ll make apple fritters. We’ll also have apple cider and apple crafts. Click here to register

Come join us for a Friendsgiving Celebration. We’ll gather to prepare and enjoy a meal together. The meal will include turkey breast, which Stacy will cook at home. Wegmans has the best turkey breast! We’ll prepare stuffing, green bean casserole and no bake desserts. We plan to have a glutten free option for everything we make. Before we enjoy our meal we’ll spend time talking about things that we’re grateful in our lives. Click here to register.

Volunteers will be available to help out, so parents can sit and chat with friends. Click here to register.
Very Veggie Recipes:
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chicken, Broccoli Keto Casserole
Chicken Fajitas in Bell Peppers
Broccoli, Banana, Berry Smoothie
Broccoli, Cheddar Corn Muffins
Broccoli, Tomato, Spinach Frittata
Sample Cooking Club Recipes
DSANV thanks Janice Goldschmidt, educator and author of the foundational text we use in our Cooking Club, for sharing the recipes she has compiled in her work at Community Support Services, Inc.: here
Summer Picnic Challenges
Brunch Recipes
Sandwiches
Peanut Butter, Strawberry, Banana Sandwich
Chicken, Mozzarella, Pesto, Tomato Sandwich
Picnic Sides
Watermelon Cucumber Feta Salad
Halloween Treats
Thanksgiving Treats
Holiday Treats
Superbowl Snacks
20 minute one bowl Keto Fudge Bars
Valentine’s Day Treats
Recipes from the Spring Cooking Club
Parchment Banana and chocolate
Sheet Pan Chocolate Covered Matzah
Turkey Cheeseburger Muffin Tin
Recipes from the Summer/Fall Cooking Club:
Videos for 2021 Summer Cooking Picnic Challenges
Videos by Stacy
Cooking Classes
- June 18 2020 – Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies; Fruit Dip
- Nov 21 2020 – Thanksgiving Sliders; Oreo Turkeys
- Dec 12 2020 – Cookies; Holiday Sandwich
- Feb 13 2021 – English Muffin Pepperoni Heart Pizza; Bell Pepper Hearts
- March 6 2021 – Parchment Packs
- March 20 2021 – Sheet Pan Meals
- April 10th 2021 – Muffin Tin Meals
- May 8th 2021 – Cava/Chipotle Style Bowls
- May 22nd 2021 – Coastal Flat Salad
Janice Goldschmidt is the Director of Nutrition Services at Community Support Services, Inc. at the University of Maryland. DSANV members are welcome to join the weekly Food For Thought Virtual Cooking Class held on Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 via zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85293047878.
What’s for Dinner? is another program offered through Community Support Services, Inc. that offers shopping lists, videos and pictorial recipes.
During the second Cooking Club, Sofia and Jeanette Puritano created a Powerpoint that shows all the options of tortillas and toppings you can use when making tacos.
The 2020 Summer/Fall Cooking Club was a success! Each class featured a pictorial recipe along with follow along cooking demonstration. Four of the classes also featured guest speakers including:
- Amanda Steinberg, RDN Presentation
- Tasha Malhotra, OTD, MSOTR/L Presentation
- Adaptive Cooking Tools Janice Goldschmidt. MPH, MS, RD, LDN
- Cindy Santa Ana Presentation
- Spring Cooking Club Presentations
- March 6 – Presentation -Welcome To The Cooking Club
- March 20 Presentation – Cooking Tools
- April 10 Presentation-Setting Up Your Kitchen
- April 24 Presentation – Recipes from Food Manufacturers
- May 8 Presentation -Dishwashing Skills
- May 22 – Independence
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