Welcome to the Whole Grain Pasta Cooking School! In this space we share tips and strategies for cooking whole grain pasta in a school foodservice environment. Today’s lesson is a refresher on: cooking in steamers. While it’s not our top choice for cooking pasta, we know it’s an important and widespread cooking platform for many […]
Category: K-12
Steal this Idea! Build Your Own Pasta
The ideas, photos and recipes coming to us from our partnership with School Meals That Rock are an amazing source of inspiration. One of our recent favorites was from Daniel Guerra of North East ISD. Daniel posted a picture of a student’s tray loaded with colorful veggies, fruit and of course, pasta! What caught our […]
Whole Grain Pasta Cooking School: Q&A Edition
Welcome to the Whole Grain Pasta Cooking School! In this space we share tips and strategies for cooking whole grain pasta in a school foodservice environment. Coming out of our webinar last month, there were a couple of questions we thought we’d revisit here: Q: I use a steamer in my school, does the “5-minute […]
Steal This Idea!
The ideas, photos and recipes coming to us from our partnership with School Meals That Rock are an amazing source of inspiration. We dedicated a whole section of our webinar with Dayle Hayes to emphasize the importance of presentation in whole grain pasta. Not just on the serving line, but in the photos you use […]
#BarillaPastaDayGiveaway
With school now a couple of months underway, we’re seeing some fantastic examples of healthy and delicious Barilla® Whole Grain pasta dishes, tips and success stories from all across the country. As a reminder, each month for a whole year we’re randomly drawing a winner to receive $500 for their school! This month’s winner is […]
Whole Grain Pasta Cooking School
Welcome to the Whole Grain Pasta Cooking School! In this space, we’ll share tips and strategies for cooking whole grain pasta in a school foodservice environment. Today’s lesson: The 5-Minute Rule. The 5-Minute Rule Keeping things simple in the back of the house is crucial in K-12. It’s why we love our Chef Bruno Wehren’s […]