South Park Elementary student Audrey Renner Wallace is one of 26 winners in Kid Food Nation’s annual recipe contest for her brightly colourful and health-conscious “Sushi Salad.”
Winners of the competition – which was put on by BGC Canada’s Kid Food Nation program and is in partnership with President’s Choice Children’s Charity and Corus Entertainment – received a robust prize pack and $5,000 grant for an “in-class good growing system, plus tools and supplies for the winners and their classmates to cultivate their own kitchen gardens at home.
The prize pack included a tablet, assorted culinary tools, a custom chef jacket and apron, a copy of the Kid Food Nation cookbook that holds the winning recipes and a winner certificate.
Eight-year-old Renner Wallace, who is a member of the BGC South Coast B.C. club, recalls being “so excited and surprised” when her mother told her she was one of the winners in the country-wide contest for her sushi salad recipe.
Inspired by her love of sushi and salads, she merged the two together in a fantastic assortment of sushi rice, chopped lettuce, a julienned carrot, thinly-sliced smoked salmon, diced cucumber and bite-sized pieces of nori.
The sauce, or salad dressing, is a mixture of soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and oil, and the salad can be topped with sesame seeds and mayonnaise.
Winners also got to take part in a virtual cooking lesson with celebrity chef Marysol Foucault on Oct. 30 where they learned how to make cheese and corn scones.
Renner Wallace says, during the lesson, she was taught the optimal, and memorable, way to crack an egg.
“If you crack an egg on the counter, the counter gets dirty, and if you crack an egg on a bowl, the bowl gets dirty, but if you crack an egg on another egg, it just breaks the one,” she explains.
Mother Lindsay Renner Wallace says Audrey has been even more inspired to cook lately and has been learning new recipes.
The Kid Food Nation program teaches kids cooking skills and is intended to get them excited about healthy food and healthy habits.
If you’re interested in making sushi salad or any of the other winning recipes, head to https://kidfoodnation.ytv.com/recipes/.
