The bells are on fire… Making this salad harkens back to those middle school science project days. It requires tongs, plastic wrap and a hot flame. The project’s pinnacle is the peeling of the burnt peppers. You’d think it would be hard, but by placing the blackened peppers in bowl covered in plastic wrap, they … Continue reading
For my birthday in early September, my friend Kristin funded a classroom project in my honor through DonorsChoose.org at Dogwood Elementary in Knoxville, Tennessee. The teacher, Mrs. Nicely (I picture her fresh and rosy-cheeked, with two crisscrossing pencils in her hair), wrote this about her students: We are an inner city school with over 88% … Continue reading