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MYSTERY INGREDIENT CHALLENGE!


What started out as a take-home program for 4-8th grade age kids during the pandemic, turned into an annual event.
The Mystery Ingredient Challenge takes place each year during winter break. 
Student chefs pick up a bag of 4 mystery ingredients and have a week to create a dish.  They have to incorporate all  4 ingredients into an original recipe.  They can, if they want to, supplement their recipes with items from home too. 

(We always offer to help with that by giving a grocery store gift card to anyone who needs it, no questions asked. We want everyone who wants to join in to feel welcome to do so!) 

Mystery Ingredient Challenge 2025

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Our young chefs worked with the following ingredients to create their dishes:
Black Beans
Corn Bread Mix
Freeze Dried Dragon Fruit
Raspberry Mocha Instant Coffee


Mystery Ingredient Challenge 2024

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 What dish would you create if you had to use:
Canned Peaches
Cream Cheese
Ginger Root
Cinnamon Cereal?

This was the challenge several brave chefs and chef teams took on over the week of winter break.  They transformed these 4 ingredients into creative recipes. 

  Take a look at the pictures below!





Past Mystery Ingredient Challenges

2023
Sweet Potatoes, Seaweed Sheets, Honey, and Biscuit Mix


2022
What might be our most challenging set of Mystery Ingredients to date!
What did our young chefs create with Veggie Stix, Peppermint Tea, Apples and Baby Corn? 


2021 Part 3
Ingredients:  Zucchini, Black Beans, Plain Yogurt, Maple Syrup



2021 Part 2
Ingredients:  Animal Crackers, Pear, Craisins, Non-Dairy Creamer


2021 Part 1 The VERY FIRST MYSTERY INGREDIENT CHALLENGE
Ingredients:  Carrots, Granny Smith Apple, Goldfish Crackers, Beefstick

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