From The Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE — The Hewitt-Trussville High School Culinary Academy is preparing a nutritional meal for astronauts in Houston.
They recently competed and won Top 10 in the US to earn this trip. Madison McGee, Zoe Walker, Kaysia Beverly, Mathew Helms, and Jordan Cummings are at the Johnson Space Flight Center to cook for a panel of NASA astronauts and other judges to see if their dishes will be the meal enjoyed by the next flight crew.
This year their challenge was to create a dish that met strict nutritional guidelines to prepare the astronauts’ bodies for space. They also wanted to prepare something comforting as this will be a quarantine meal eaten by the astronauts before the flight.
As high school students recently impacted by having to be quarantined due to COVID, they knew exactly what they would want as a meal for this scenario. So they prepared a healthy version of fried chicken fingers that taste much like Chick-Fil-A, mac and cheese made healthy by using a combination of cheese and pureed carrots, and for dessert, a frozen apple pie yogurt with a granola “crust.”