Chicken Pot Pie

Hello, and welcome back to another food blog with the UI REACH students. Today we will be talking about the Chicken Pot Pie that we had for Cooking Lab on Thursday. We started off with the ingredients of what we have and then looked over the list of steps for the recipes.

The first step that we did is start on the smash potatoes and start boiling the water.

The second step that we did is we put the chicken on a pan and put it in the oven.

The third step that we did is we took the frozen mix vegetables and put them in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Later we took them out when they are warm to eat.

The fourth step is that we took the chicken out of the oven and put the mixed vegetables and cream of chicken soup on top of them. Then we put biscuits mix on top and put it in the oven.

With all that hard work we finally got to eat the Chicken Pot Pie and it was good.

Recipe

• 1 2/3 cups frozen mixed vegetables
• 1 cup cut up cooked chicken
• 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
• 1 cup Bisquick mix
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 egg

1. Heat oven to 400. In an ungreased pan stir vegetables, chicken, and soup.
2. In a medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients until blended. Pour into pan. 
3. Bake uncovered about 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

Thank you for reading this blog and that we hope you enjoy our food blogs and those that are coming in the far future.

Old Capitol Museum

Hello all welcome back to this amazing new blog post!!! Yesterday we had a fantastic day volunteering. We volunteered at the Old Capitol Museum. We colored, cut, and glued things together for the Halloween Creepy Campus Crawl. The Creepy Crawl is for families to Trick-or-Treat in a safe place. The Creepy Crawl is going to be held October 24th 6:30 PM-8:30 PM. My favorite part was coloring the snakes and dots because they will help decorate the Old Capitol Museum for the Creepy Campus Crawl.

Ben, Mentor Michelle and Elliot gluing Snake heads in Old Capitol Museum 

Ben and Evan coloring Snakes

Evan having fun coloring in Old Capitol Museum 

Jordan Coloring Snake

Elliot gluing dots and Ms. Katelyn coloring dots

Ms. Katelyn and Elliot having Fun 

Snake Heads drying

Snakes with dots on it

Group of 3rd years and Mentor Michelle working hard

Ellie Coloring the dots 

Travis cutting the snakes 

Andrew enjoying himself 

Thank you so much for reading our blog post. Comments are appreciated!!!!!

Signing off until next time,

-Ellie & Evan 

The Gardeners

Hello, and welcome back to another blog post for this week. Today we will be talking about the volunteer work that we did with the planting group with Carol and Linda. We started to put up signs for the garden group that said IC Blooms. We asked small businesses in the community to hang up the signs. Some of the signs said UI REACH Program so that people could know who planted those plants.

Evan and Linda at High Ground

Ellie at Revival

Jordan and Ben at Buzz

Whole Group at Bo James

Ben and Linda at Motley Cow

Ellie and Evan at Artisan Store

We also met an officer named Dave who rides his police bike around Iowa City to see if people needed help with something and to make sure that they are safe. We also took a picture of Officer Dave with the garden group.

Whole Group with Officer Dave

We also had fun on the playground. The playground is by the Iowa City Public Library. Ben and Jordan played on the playground while some people went inside businesses to talk about the signs.

Jordan and Ben playing at the Playground

We bumped into people that Linda volunteers with. We introduced ourselves to them. We took a picture with them.

When we were almost done we took a cookie break. Carol brought us some cookies from Bread Garden. While we ate the cookies we talked our garden experience.

Thank you Carol and Linda for our gardening experience.

Oaknoll

First crazy thing that happened was the power went off at park lawn. We felt like we were blind and had to use our flashlight app on our phones. The fire alarm went off in park lawn around six p.m. that night. We had to go outside when the fire alarm went off. We had to go across the street. On top of all of that we had to walk in the pouring down rain to Service Learning that day. We had tour of Oaknoll. We saw Ben's grandpa that day and a 105 year old lady.

Oaknoll is a retirement home for people over 62. There are three living options. First is independent living where you have your own apartment and cook and clean. If you need help living another choice is assisted living. The health center need total help with living. Oaknoll had a pool, workout center, dining halls, movie theater and a lounge area. They also had a salon.

Marie the 105 year old woman she threw the first pitch at the Iowa cubs game.

Ben and his grandpa George 

We learned how to volunteer there. We have to apply online and get trained. We can play cards, go for a walk, read to the residents. Volunteers help in the health center. 

The Oaknoll bird.

The dining hall.

The movie theater.

The salon.

We had a lot of fun at oaknoll because we got to see Ben's grandpa and we liked the movie theater. 

The group picture of all of us.

Spaghetti

It was nice weather this week after the rainy week that was. In the Thursday cooking lab we made spaghetti. On the sides were ground beef and sausage because we didn't have to mix it in with the sauce. Also on the side was garlic bread. Some people put sauce on their pasta but I did not because I like my pasta plain.

The hardest part of making dinner was waiting for the water to boil because it was a big pot we were cooking with. The easy part was cooking the pasta and the ground beef and sausage because we have to stir them. My favorite part was helping in the kitchen.

I would make pasta on my own.

What is your favorite pasta dish?

Tyler and Evan mixing the ground meat

Lena making the pasta while Evan makes the meat.

The garlic bread

The boiling water and the ground meat.

The cooked spaghetti.

Travis taking out the bread.

Evan and Lena cooking with Tyler looking on.

Evan cooking the ground meat.

Homecoming and Homemade Pizza!

This past week was Homecoming. The Homecoming theme this year was Gold and Black: Take Me Back. There was a lot of neat stuff going on. We played the Indiana Hoosiers for the football game. Oh man, I was in a pickle I did'n't know who I wanted to win. Because as some as you know I am from Indiana. But once again our beloved Hawkeyes won the game.

On Thursday we made pizza! The toppings included cheese and pepperoni. The crust was premade and we used pizza sauce from a can. It looked difficult to make a homemade pizza on your own. We had two pizzas. Evan and Elliot helped put the sauce on the crust. Jordan put on the cheese and pepperoni. The pizzas had to cook for about 10 minutes. We each had a couple of slices. I thought it was really good.

How you ever made homemade pizza and what toppings did you use?

The Shelter House

Hello welcome back to our blog. Did you miss us from the last blog? Today we will be blogging about our tour at The Shelter House. The Shelter House is a place for people who don't have a home and that they can get meals, sleep, do laundry, have a dentist appointment, and they have an entertainment room. Ben said "the family room is the coolest because it has toys for the kids."

This is a kids bed

The Shelter House has a privacy room, Women's room, Men's room, family room, play room, and veterans. They can fit around 100 people in the building. They keep it very clean, it's even cleaner than our rooms!

This is the Shelter House from the Outside

This is where clients come to see the doctor & dentist.

   We hope that you enjoyed our blog this week. I hope that we are able to volunteer at The Shelter House someday.