Hello,
My name is Chantel McGleno. I live in Nett Lake, Minnesota. It's a small Native American reservation in Northern, Minnesota. Each and every month I host a cooking class for the children on the reservation. I am averaging 16 kids on a month to month basis. I teach healthy based cooking and just let the kids get down and dirty in the kitchen!
This month, (Feb. 18th, 2012) my class had an asst. cook. It was my grandma Flora Skinaway. She took the time to come up and teach not only the VBS team that was there as well! The kids each rolled out dough and then cut it out with cookie cutters! It was fried in hot oil in fun shapes and then served with homemade butter! So okay the frybread may not have been the best choice for healthy food but everyone had a great time making everything!
That wasn't the only thing we did, one of my older girls, (She is the one in the white hoody in the background) made French Silk Pie. Then there was coconut cream pie made. (The little girl in the front of the picture wearing purple.) Team members all made butter and enjoyed the work out of all the shaking! :) It was so much fun!
Even with all the fun that we do have doesn't mean that it's been this easy. I do this many times a month completely solo. Also been paying for things out of pocket so the kids can come do something and not get bored. That's what started it all! Anyways, this is our story.
I am no one special. I don't have a degree, I don't have my own children. I'm just a grown native woman, who lives on the reservation, I volunteer each month at the local church, helping to show my kids how too cook.
Recipes, class times and updates will be posted quite frequently on here. :) Would love to get more people inspired in all that we do and maybe even start it up in their church! :) God Bless you!
My name is Chantel McGleno. I live in Nett Lake, Minnesota. It's a small Native American reservation in Northern, Minnesota. Each and every month I host a cooking class for the children on the reservation. I am averaging 16 kids on a month to month basis. I teach healthy based cooking and just let the kids get down and dirty in the kitchen!
This month, (Feb. 18th, 2012) my class had an asst. cook. It was my grandma Flora Skinaway. She took the time to come up and teach not only the VBS team that was there as well! The kids each rolled out dough and then cut it out with cookie cutters! It was fried in hot oil in fun shapes and then served with homemade butter! So okay the frybread may not have been the best choice for healthy food but everyone had a great time making everything!
That wasn't the only thing we did, one of my older girls, (She is the one in the white hoody in the background) made French Silk Pie. Then there was coconut cream pie made. (The little girl in the front of the picture wearing purple.) Team members all made butter and enjoyed the work out of all the shaking! :) It was so much fun!
Even with all the fun that we do have doesn't mean that it's been this easy. I do this many times a month completely solo. Also been paying for things out of pocket so the kids can come do something and not get bored. That's what started it all! Anyways, this is our story.
I am no one special. I don't have a degree, I don't have my own children. I'm just a grown native woman, who lives on the reservation, I volunteer each month at the local church, helping to show my kids how too cook.
Recipes, class times and updates will be posted quite frequently on here. :) Would love to get more people inspired in all that we do and maybe even start it up in their church! :) God Bless you!
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