Recipe: Enchanting Green Goddess Salad

Enchanting Green Goddess Salad

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Fun-Da-Mentals Kitchen Skills

• chop :

  to cut something into small, rough pieces using a blade.

• knife skills :

  Bear Claw (growl), Pinch, Plank, and Bridge (look out for trolls). 

• measure :

  to calculate the specific amount of an ingredient required using a measuring tool (like measuring cups or spoons).

• pour :

  to cause liquid, granules, or powder to stream from one container into another.

• squeeze :

  to firmly press or twist a food with fingers, hands, or a device to remove its liquid, like shredded potatoes, frozen and thawed spinach, or tofu.

• toss :

  to lightly lift and drop food items together or coat food items with flour, or a sauce or dressing, as in a salad.

• whisk :

  to beat or stir ingredients vigorously with a fork or whisk to mix, blend, or incorporate air.

History of Green Goddess Dressing!

• The most likely origin of Green Goddess Dressing is the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923. The hotel’s executive chef, Philip Roemer, created the dressing to honor the actor George Arliss and a 1921 play he was in called The Green Goddess. 
• The green herb dressing from the Palace was made of mayonnaise, anchovies, green onion, chives, parsley, tarragon, and garlic oil. 
• The New York Times published a recipe for the dressing in 1948 that included Worcestershire sauce.
• Green Goddess Dressing can be served on a fresh green salad. It can also be used as a vegetable dip or a sauce on grilled fish, meat, or sandwiches.

Let's Learn About San Francisco!

• The City and County of San Francisco is located in Northern California on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay on the western coast of the state.
• San Francisco's land area is 46.9 square miles; including water, the total area is 231.9 square miles. It is the fourth-largest city in California by population and the 17th largest in the United States. There are over 827,000 people in the city and county. In comparison, the most populous city, Los Angeles, has over 3.8 million people. 
• San Francisco has a mild Mediterranean climate with moist winters and dry summers. It is known for its fog and marine layer due to the influence of the Pacific Ocean. 
• Archaeological evidence indicates humans lived in the area in 3000 BCE. Anthropologists say the Yelamu, a tribe of the Ohlone people, resided in the San Francisco region 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. 
• Spanish explorers and settlers arrived in 1769, claiming San Francisco for their Las Californias. In March 1776, Spanish expeditionary leader Juan Bautista de Anza established the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort to protect the entrance of the San Francisco Bay. 
• In October 1776, Padre Francisco Palóu founded the Mission San Francisco de Asís (also called Mission Dolores). Its adobe chapel, built by indigenous people, was completed in 1791 and is the oldest building in San Francisco.
• Spain ceded Alta California to Mexico in 1821. With the Mexican Secularization Act of 1833, the missions lost their large landholdings. They had to free their indigenous laborers, and the Mexican government gave them the former mission lands.
• Alta California and San Francisco became part of the United States after the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. New arrivals from other parts of the country and new businesses flooded the San Francisco area during the California Gold Rush of 1848.
• The Chinatown district in San Francisco was established in the early 1848 by Chinese immigrants. It is the oldest Chinatown in the US. 
• Domingo Ghirardelli founded the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco in 1852. He purchased the whole city block for his headquarters, which is now known as Ghirardelli Square.    
• In 1853, Levi Strauss & Co. got its start when Strauss opened a store in San Francisco that sold clothing, fabrics, and other dry goods.
• The first cable car system in the US was built in San Francisco in 1873. It is the last manually-operated system in the world.
• The 1906 earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.9, and the resulting fires were devastating for the city. More than 3,000 people died, and more than 200,000 were left homeless. It was the deadliest earthquake in US history. 
• The famous Golden Gate Bridge opened to the public in May 1937. It is a suspension bridge that connects San Francisco with Marin County and spans the strait between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge is a total of 8980 feet long, and the main span over the water is 4200 feet. It is 90 feet wide and 746 feet tall.
• Other popular places to visit in San Francisco include Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz,  Lombard Street, Fisherman's Wharf, and Pier 39. 
• Golden Gate Park is the largest urban park in the city. It contains several museums, a botanical garden, a Japanese tea garden, and sports fields. Alcatraz is a former prison turned tourist attraction on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay.
• San Francisco is known for its steep hills (more than 50!), and one of them is Russian Hill, with a grade of about 27 degrees. One of the streets in the Russian Hill neighborhood that navigates the hill is Lombard Street, using switchbacks to get down. It is known for a 600-foot-long, one-block section between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets with eight hairpin turns, called the "crookedest street in the world." The block is paved with red bricks. The pretty landscaping along the famous stretch makes the slow-moving traffic more enjoyable. 
• Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and tourist attraction on the city's northern waterfront. Pier 39 is a shopping center and tourist attraction on a pier at the edge of Fisherman's Wharf. It offers an aquarium, a two-story carousel, restaurants, shops, and a colony of sea lions.
• Kids may especially enjoy the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and Pier 39 with its Aquarium of the Bay and sea lions.
• San Francisco has three professional sports teams: the San Francisco Giants baseball team, the San Francisco 49ers football team, and the Golden State Warriors basketball team.
• "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," written in 1953, was popularized by singer Tony Bennett in 1962. It is one of the official anthems of San Francisco.
• Sourdough bread is a well-known food from San Francisco, brought there by French bakers during the Gold Rush. The city is also known for its clam chowder in a sourdough bowl.
• San Francisco is also known for Dungeness crab. Fishermen there have commercially caught the crabs since 1848. It is featured in the Italian-American fish stew, cioppino, that was developed in the late 1800s by Italian immigrants living in the North Beach neighborhood.
• Green Goddess dressing is believed to have originated at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923.