SOS Kitchen – Episode 1

Open Table’s SOS Kitchen challenges local chefs and our talented kitchen crew to create beautiful, healthy, and delicious meals from our surplus foods. In our SOS Kitchen YouTube series, we’ll be giving you peeks into the kitchen to see the team in action!

Each week we create hundreds of prepared meals for our guests. Prepared meals are great for busy families, seniors, those with limited cooking facilities or skills, or anyone who just needs a break from a night in the kitchen.

We are fortunate to receive many donations of fresh produce, proteins, nonperishables, and other foods. At times we receive larger quantities of some items than we can distribute to guests in a week, commercial-size packages of items that can’t be re-packaged for families, or items that are still good but need to be used quickly. Our SOS Team creatively uses these “surplus” items and more to create our meals. Sometimes the combination of ingredients can be challenging. What can you make with salsa black beans, coconut, peanut butter, and Fluff? Check back regularly to see what’s cooking!

Local “celebrity” chefs donate their time and talent to help feed more people. This week’s celebrity is Chef Mark Valentine of Kitchen to Table Foods. Watch as he creates a delicious chicken pasta dish.