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Become a Food Explorer
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Today we are inviting you to become a food explorer and try a few adventurous ingredients. Did you know that you could even take a trip around the world through food? Discovering different cuisines offers you a new world of veggies, fruits, spices, herbs, seafood, and herbs. We will also virtually travel to Kennedy Space Center and meet Chef Ambarish Lulay, who cooked at the “Taste of Space” Event and will share his own culinary journey with us. It’s amazing!
Put spirit-lifting adventure on your plate by trying a few new cuisines. It will reinvigorate your life with energy and excitement!
Make your life exciting and interesting:
- Grab your mask and take a trip to the market, local farm, or berry patch
- Remember to take lots of photos
- Look for unusual ingredients
- Enjoy colors, scents, flavors, and textures
- Laugh, explore, touch, and taste
- Create something new
- Try a new skill
Make or create a new recipe:
- Use a basic recipe and change it
- Add an adventure ingredient
- Sprinkle it with new toppings
- Blend in new flavors
- Add herbs, fermented foods, nuts, dried fruits
- Put it in a different container, bowl, cup, or ramekin
- Try a new cuisine in your own kitchen
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Recipes to Explore
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Grilled Chickabobs
Add ginger, fermented sauce, and a little spicy Gochujang
Adventure Ingredients:
Gochujang, Reduced Sodium Sauce, Fish Sauce
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About the Recipe: These grilled chicken skewers, flavored with a succulent Asian inspired sauce, are teamed with smoky flavored onions and sweet peppers. The charbroiled chicken chunks are a salty, briny, sweet surprise that are packed with umami flavor.
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Asian Picnic Pasta Bowl
Filled with rice noodles and lot of veggies.
Adventure Ingredients:
Rice Noodles and lots of veggies.
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About the Recipe: This is a delicious noodle salad to take along in a container for a picnic. Dressed with an Asian inspired ginger dressing, it can be served as a side dish or main entrée. Some chilled shrimp would be a delicious addition.
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Refreshing Kombucha Mini Bubble Tea
Antioxidant rich fruity flavored green tea filled with Chia
Adventure Ingredient:
Chia Seeds
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About the Recipe: Chia seeds create tiny bouncing “bubble balls” in the refreshing tea. It has a light fruity flavor and is filled with healthy antioxidants and fiber. It’s perfect for those hot summer days.
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NASA “Taste of Space” Exhibition
Featuring Chef Amabarish Lulay of East End Grill, Lafayette, Indiana.
Last October, the “Taste of Space” event, which was held at Kennedy Space Center, offered an opportunity for the public to see rarely seen artwork from NASA’s archives and experience “Taste of Space” foods. They were celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission and hoped that this opportunity would inspire the next generation of space explorers.
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Imagine Being Invited to Cook at the “Taste of Space” event at Kennedy Space Center right under the Saturn V! That is exactly what happened to Executive Chef for East End Grill, Ambarish Lulay. He previously worked at Purdue’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and was the chef at Westwood, University President Mitch Daniels’ home on campus where important visitors were entertained. While his successful career has been peppered with many awards and accomplishments, he was so honored to be one of the chefs selected to participate in this event.
Wanting to learn more the “Taste of Space” event, we contacted Chef Lulay at the East End Grill and asked him to tell us about his experiences.
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About the Recipe: One of our signature dishes at East End Grill, the shrimp and grits is a story of owner Scott Trzaskus’s professional journey in the American south. Scott worked in the Carolinas, Atlanta and Texas and was enamored by this dish in its various forms. We do a version of this with all the influences in a classic style. We have paired the dish today with wonderful Indiana products like Smoking Goose Tasso ham from Indianapolis, and Professor Torbert’s Orange Corn Grits developed right in our backyard on The Purdue University campus.
Chef Ambarish Lulay Interview
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More Recipes to Explore
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Veggie Wrapwich Snack
Have fun making “Veggie or Fruit Fries” to serve in wrappers.
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About the Recipe: Have fun making Wrapwich Wrappers to fill with fresh veggies, fruits, or mini-sandwich snacks. You can create them using any theme like sports, animals, flowers, or even space travel. Remember to be an explorer! Playing and pretending are fun for everyone in the family.
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Fruit Infused Flavored Water
Enjoy a chilled drink and then nibble on the juicy fruit.
Adventure Ingredients:
Mixed Vegetables with Fruit.
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About the Recipe: Infused water is a fun way to drink your eight or more glasses of water per day. Cut up some pieces of your favorite fruit, add some citrus and/or include a few of those wonderful herb leaves. This gives you a way to enjoy some flavored water and even snack on the fruit.
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Quinoa Blueberry Breakfast Muffin
With plenty of protein to start your day.
Adventure Ingredient:
White Quinoa
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About the Recipe: Start your day off with a moist, nutty-flavored muffin, filled with some fresh berries and a delicious rice-like texture. Quinoa is a superfood that is a healthy addition to the breakfast scene
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Instant Pot Easy Beef Roast with Watermelon Salsa Fresca
Celebrate the fresh flavors of summer.
Adventure Ingredient:
Chimichurri Blend Seasoning
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About the Recipe: It’s time to let the Instant Pot cook up a roast that can be sliced into tender thin slices and made into sandwiches or a quick dinner. Mix up a fresh summertime salsa with some of that chilled watermelon.
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Red Quinoa Waldorf Salad
Raising the bar for Waldorf Salad with Spice
Adventure Ingredient:
Whole Grain Red Quinoa
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About the Recipe: The popular1893 Waldorf Salad is one of our classic favorites. This recipe adds some quinoa, fresh spinach, and some light spicy seasoning. It is a refreshing, healthy salad to serve for a summer supper.
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Fresh Garden “Peas in a Pod” Soup
Creamy and refreshing – welcome to the farmers’ fields.
Adventure Ingredients;
Coconut Oil, Bone Broth
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About the Recipe: This healthy soup is a perfect party starter for an elegant dinner party. Prepare it ahead of time; serve it at room temperature, chilled, or warm. It looks so elegant, garnished with simple shaved cheese, bits of spicy topping, chives, and a few fresh peas. So “Go Green” for summer.
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Star Power Sautéed Liver and Onions
Contains more nutrients than most other foods.
Adventure Ingredient:
Organic Grass Fed Beef Liver
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About the Recipe: Liver stores more nutrients than most other foods and is an excellent source of protein. It doesn’t store toxins, but one of its primary roles is to neutralize toxins. Recently, some healthy diets like Dr. Wahls Protocol diet are suggesting that liver be included in a healthy diet. We added bacon, onions, mushrooms, and chives to flavor the liver, but these could be eliminated from the recipe.
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Avocado Orange Salad with Spiced Corn Niblets
Light refreshing salad with “fire ’em up” corn.
Adventure Ingredient:
White Balsamic Vinegar
About the Recipe: This simple salad is loaded with fresh citrus flavors that is light and refreshing. The smoky spiced corn sprinkle adds a surprising new interesting taste sensation that creates an attractive and delicious company salad.
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Chilled Gazpacho Tuna Lettuce Wraps
Fresh, Fast, and Fiesta Flavored.
Adventure Ingredient:
Spicy Hot Vegetable Juice
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About the Recipe: These summer wraps are easy to make and bursting with bright spicy flavor. Serve them as a light supper or weekend snack.
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Spirited Fresh Strawberry Cake
Can also be made gluten free and topped with dairy-free whipped topping.
Adventure Ingredient:
Hot Pepper Jelly
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About the Recipe: It’s summertime on a plate. The cake is easy to prepare and if you use prepared whipping cream, just spread it between the layers and over the top. Arrange those juicy strawberries between the layers and over the top. The pepper jelly twist added a light contrast flavor. Finish it off with some fresh mint leaves.
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