Kids in the Kitchen 24-10-14

Today's lunch was Sausage Rolls and Ice-cream with Lollies

We were lucky to have Celeste's brother Kyle in to help with the cooking.

 Kyle and Celeste making the sausage rolls

 Everyone getting into making the sausage rolls

 Ryan and Lexi ready to check off the list

 Paddy and the chopped up veggies. 

The only thing I found was that the sausage roll made a lot of liquid (fat and juices) so the bottom of the sausage rolls was a bit soggy. Next time I would cook them on the grill wrack so the liquid will drip to the tray.

Kids in the Kitchen 17-10-14

Today on the menu was Burritos and Apple Crumble

 Hughie preparing the Crumble topping

 

 Robbie and Jet preparing the apples

 

 Seth and Robbie cooking the chicken

 

 Jet and the Salsa

Ozzy getting the serving table ready

Ozzy doing some dishes

 

 Jet cleaning up the tables

I really enjoyed cooking with the kids today. I think everyone enjoyed eating the lunch, I know Doug and I did.

First crops planted

We planted our first crops on the 18/9/2014, the week before the holidays, a little early for some spring planting, but most plants are thriving

 

In the Junior School Garden (Prep & 1) we planted Savoy cabbages, mini cabbages and 3 varieties of tomatoes, Cherry, Roma and Gross Lisse

In the Middle School Garden (Year 2) we planted Carrots and Dragons tongue beans. The beans haven't been coping to well with the weather, however I hope some will survive. The carrots transplanted really well.

The Senior School Garden was planted with beetroot. One was a heritage variety but I think they all got mixed up. They are growing well and might need some further dividing once they are a little more established.

Visit from Bunnings

Today we were very lucky to had David and Cheryl come out to the school, from Bunnings.

First job to do was prune the fruit trees. Cheryl gave the grade 3,4,5,&6 students a talk about what we were going to do, and then we headed to the garden. Of course it was raining, but that didn't dampen the students enthusiasm. Since this was a major job, we couldn't get it all done in one afternoon, so I finished off the pruning on Thursday, check out the trees now.

 

From This

 To this

 1/2 way on this one

JOB DONE

The Prep 1 &2 class help Cheryl and David plant anew hedge along the tennis court at the front of the school. We also had a whole lot of bulbs in the shed, so the student planted them all in the garden bed.

Kids inthe Kitchen 29-8-14

This week we made Chicken Pasta Bake and Chocolate biscuit balls.
I have made some notes on the recipe about how I varied from the first time cooking this dish. It was much better without vegetables in it. Next time I will endeavor to make my own sauce which will be even more delicious.

 Chicken and Pasta pre cooked, ready to be mixed with cheese and sauce

 Cheese and sauce

 Hughie did a surprising job, taking over the Chicken Pasta preparation, mixing it all up ( I let him use his hands) and dividing it between the dishes. Great Job, I was really proud of Hughie today.

 Robbie preparing the carrots

 

 Choc ball ingredients ready, I pre crushed to biscuits and we finished them off

Jet and Ozzy busy rolling the Choc balls and Luci's Logs

Kids in the Kitchen 22-08-14

This week was Book Week, so on Friday the students all dressed up as their favourite book characters. Cooking today we had, Wally (Where's Wally), Specky Magee, Pippi Longstockings and Goldilocks.
For lunch we had Hot Dogs and Rocky Road. The Rocky Road was delicious, and the ingredients can be changed if you wanted to try something a little different.

Garden Update

 A beautiful gift from Cara, flowers in a gum nut

Concrete edging around the fruit trees, thanks to all the students who moved the huge amount of mulch, it looks amazing

Our resident chickens and rooster

Garden beds are about 3/4 full, just need some well fertilised soil to top them up

The fruit trees in desperate need of a prune. Bunnings are coming to do a demonstration with the students on the 1st September

Roast and Gravy Rolls Recipe

Roast Chicken/Beef and Gravy Roll Recipe

Estimate that I can make at least 10 Rolls per chicken. I there is left over I can freeze for another lunch.

4 chickens Roasted and cooled

25 Rolls

Gravy

Self Explanatory

With the beef I am going with my 100gm per student theory so I will cook at least a 3kg roast beef

Baked Potatoes Recipe

Baked Potatoes Recipe

25 Students

30 potatoes (always a few extra)

Butter

Coleslaw

½ cabbage, sliced

4 carrots, grated

¼ onion, really finely sliced

Mayo

1kg Bacon, chopped up and cooked

1kg grated cheese

Sour Cream

Wrap potatoes in foil and bake for approx 1hr or 1½ hours

Make coleslaw

Serve to order what kids want on their potato.

Rocky Road Recipe

Rocky Road Recipe

25 Students

I am going to make individual Rocky Roads in the silicone muffin liners

4 blocks of chocolate, melted

2 bags marshmallows, cut in half

2 bags raspberry lollies

1 bag peanuts

A sprinkle of coconut

Then put a little bit of ingredients in the liners then dribble on some chocolate and then more ingredients and more chocolate. Divide the ingredients between the number of orders.

Honey Joys Recipe

Honey Joys

I made 3x this recipe and it made 30 silicone cup, as full as I could make them,  sized honey joys

90gm butter

1/3C sugar

1TBSP Honey

4C Cornflakes

Turn oven on to 150C

Line patty tins (silicone liners)

Melt butter, sugar and honey in a pan until frothy

Mix in to cornflakes

Spoon into patty tins

Bake for 10 min

Cool