Sprouts students rang in the first Out of the Box lunch of 2012 with a beautiful spread of pasta, salads, quinoa, and brown rice, all intermixed with lots of fresh winter vegetables from their weekly CSA farm box.  Learning how to make a pasta sauce from scratch, as well as properly cut an onion were the focuses of this class. Tears were shed, but these kids proved to be onion chopping machines. The Italian salad consisting of polenta croutons, onions, mozzarella, and shredded basil with a balsamic thyme dressing, along with the penne pasta tossed with homemade tomato sauce and sautéed cauliflower were the hits of the day. Buon appetito, indeed!