Cooking for Health
Ruben Rojas
(2 min 33 sec)
One bite and you know the sandwich is a winner: spicy marinated tofu crisped and served with pickled vegetables and cilantro on a ciabatta bun with a side of peanut dipping sauce.
But the recipe for four is going to be, in chef-speak, "exploded" to serve 800 to 1,000 students in swagÍâÁ÷ dining halls next week in honor of it winning a head-to-head cooking competition on campus.
Recipe to be featured in the dining commons
Taste the Winner
Vegan Thai Tofu Satay Sandwich
When: Thursday, Dec. 11, dinner, 4:45 to 8 p.m.
Where:
- Segundo and Tercero — Blue Onion
- Cuarto — Seasonality
Junior Cameron Vinoskey of San Diego made her vegan Thai tofu satay sandwich before hungry onlookers at the Segundo dining commons Nov. 19 to win the honor; culinary prizes including knives, cutting mats and measuring utensils; and $20 in Aggie cash.
"I'm so excited to have my food in the dining hall," said the neurobiology, physiology and behavior major. "It will be great to see it. I'm real excited."
The "" competition — to be held in the other dining commons in winter and spring quarters — evolved from ' tradition of adapting students' family recipes to serve in the dining commons.
Food and cooking education
It's now part of a to encourage students to eat healthy and prepare to cook nutritious meals when they move out of residence halls — and away from their meal plans — to live in the community. Students can even take .
The student judges — who evaluated the dishes based on nutrition, taste, texture and presentation — also gave high marks to the spaghetti squash chicken Alfredo prepared by freshman Ryan Abusaa of Ridgeland, Mississippi.
swagÍâÁ÷ is growing California
At swagÍâÁ÷, we and our partners are nourishing our state with food, economic activity and better health, for more than 50 years. swagÍâÁ÷ is participating in launched by UC President Janet Napolitano, harnessing the collective power of UC to help feed the world and steer it on the path to sustainability.