We kicked off our first night with dinner at the Windsor restaurant in downtown Chicago and ate a meal prepared entirely from ingredients from O organics but the best part was to come the next day when we actually got to step into a kitchen and cook! We started our morning with a breakfast bar that had a bunch of different types of slow cooked oats flavored with maple syrup, chocolate chips and fresh and dried fruit. Then we proceeded on to a quick demo with a dietician and picked up some quick tips on how to make our food friendlier to our own personal needs and diets yet keeping it as flavorful and tasty. Now comes the fun part, we got to cook in the Rick Bayless kitchen!!! After getting a few pointers on how to operate in the kitchen, I teamed up with Ashlae and we made a stove top nut and mixed berry crisp and flavored it with all sorts of lovely fresh herbs such as tarragon and mint. It was sweet, jamy and heavenly and also one of the most colorful things we could eat. Later we got to photograph our creations (you can see the image below). All the ingredients provided to use were from the O Organics line and I was really impressed to see that they have an organic version of every ingredient I could think of using and I know I do in my kitchen. Using their ingredients, I’ve baked this simple yet flavorful fall themed pound cake that uses toasted walnuts and a little bit of ginger. It’s more of a tea cake though you could add a powdered sugar frosting on top to add a little bit of extra sweetness! Just a couple of notes about getting access to Safeway’s O Organic products across the country. At the recent O Organics ‘Organic for All’ event in Chicago, I had the opportunity to work with a vast selection of O Organics products, but please check your local Albertsons family store to see what’s available in your area. I get my O Organics products at Safeway, but if you are outside of the SF Bay Area, O Organics products are available at Albertsons Companies stores across the country, including Albertsons, ACME Markets, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Pavilions and Star Market. walnut ginger pound cake yields: one 9 inch loaf cake ingredients 1 cup/16 tablespoons/227gm unsalted butter, cubed at room temperature plus a little extra to grease a nine inch loaf pan 1 cup (198.5 gm) sugar 3 large eggs 198.5 gm all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon ground ginger powder 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon fine grain sea salt 99gm toasted walnuts, coarsely chopped Disclaimer: Thank you to Safeway for sponsoring this trip and post, however, all opinions expressed are solely my own. Comment * Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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