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Fall 2024

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Pita with meatballs and tzatziki
Fall 2024

A Greek dinner from 4-H cooking classes

Washington’s 4-H cooking curriculum focuses on international cuisine this year. Find recipes for the Greek dinner prepared by Kitsap County 4-H instructor Valerie Terry and her students below.

Read more about 4-H cooking classes.

 

Greek Lamb Meatballs with Tzatziki Sauce

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

1 pound ground lamb

½ cup red onion finely chopped

3 cloves garlic minced

1 tablespoon flat-leaf parsley minced

2 teaspoons fresh mint minced

1 egg

2 tablespoons panko breadcrumbs

1½ teaspoons kosher salt

½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For the Tzatziki

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worm in student’s hand
Fall 2023

Growing at school

Rebekah “Bekah” Marten likes to bring her worm bin to school for her lesson on composting.

Elementary students have the option to hold a worm or two, or just watch the worms to see what they do.

Same goes for roly-polies, or potato or pill bugs, formally known asarmadillidiidaeor woodlice, terrestrial crustaceans that resemble pill millipedes, oroniscomorpha, which also have the ability to roll up into little balls.

“There were kids who had never seen one before, never held one before,” Marten says.

She’s carried moss-covered logs to school, so children can easily hunt for insects within the partially decomposed wood and small, flowerless plants. … » More …