The purpose of What’s For Dinner? is to provide you a recipe with items on sale this week, with no more than 10 ingredients (not including pantry items), and coming in at under $10 per meal.
In effort to keep the content fresh and to still talk about one of my passions – great food – each month I’ll take a What’s For Dinner? and feature a culinary hot-spot in the Kansas City area. I think it will be a way to showcase some of the cool things in our city.
Two years ago I read a small blip in my son’s school newsletter about the Broadmoor Technical Center at 83rd and Metcalf sponsoring a “Broodmoor Baking Friday” on an upcoming Friday.
As I dug around on the internet a little more, I realized this is a high school tech center that offers kids some pretty advance teachings in culinary arts, graphic design, computers, printing, video game design, etc. and that this Baking Day was a way for the kids to showcase some of their talents in the baking department.
So, I went. I wanted to see with my own two eyes and I thought it was cool to support high school students. I was expecting a couple of tables with some cookies and maybe a pie or two.
When I got there, I realized how wrong I was.
It was a full-on bakers delight. Four different breads (like rosemary, olive oil and sea salt), five pies, six cookies, cinnamon rolls, tarts, and more.
And it was DIRT cheap. It was first-rate bakers products for Walmart pricing. Needless to say – I spent $20 and came home with a huge box of baked goodies.
And I’ve been going back ever since.
This Friday, October 8, Broadmoor is hosting their first 2010-2011 school year Broadmoor Baking Friday. If you are in the area, or want to experience some amazing baked goodies while supporting some really cool high school kids – stop by. I promise you, you won’t be disappointed and you’ll end up taking some goodies home with you.
Do you have a “secret” budget friendly place? What is your favorite culinary place? Share it with me via the comments or on the Kansas City Mamas Facebook Page.
Also, if you’ve never been to the Broadmoor Bistro (www.broadmoorbistro.org), you need to go. It’s high-end cuisine that is DELICIOUS and cheap- the entire meal (4 courses- appetizer, soup or salad, main course and dessert) is $25 per person. On deck for October: Porcini Dusted Roasted Poussin stuffed with spinach, pine nuts, gorgonzola cheese and roasted red peppers served with braised cabbage with tart apples and pecans and petitie carrots. The Bistro is gorgeous (you’d never know you were in a school) and the food- entirely prepared by students- is exquisite.
I’ve always wanted to go – looks like me and hubs need to make plan, huh?