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

Kids in the Kitchen 15-08-14

This week we made Suzi's Dahl and Honey Joys . 

 Dahl ingredients ready to be cooked

 Honey Joys

I made 3 times the recipe of Dahl and 8C of rice. It was a lot of rice, but I always make too much and some did stick to the bottom of the pot and some kids did have seconds.

Rice Recipe

A few weeks off

So we are back and in the full swing of things. The Garden beds are nearly full and should be ready in a couple of weeks.
After a break during school holidays, and then I was away for a week, A HUGE THANKS to Ange for cooking the first lunch after the holidays, Roast Chicken and gravy rolls and Choc cupcakes. Last week I forgot to take photos we had Hamburgers and Sticky Date Pudding. The pudding was delicious and the kids totally enjoyed it.
This week we are having Chicken Schnitzel, cheese, lettuce and mayo rolls, and Ice-cream with Lollies, a post will follow soon.
We have confirmed a visit from Bunnings, they are going to come and do a fruit tree pruning demonstration and plant a new hedge in the front garden. Yay, can't wait.

The shed is totally cleaned out, thanks to Doug and his pressure cleaner. It looks amazing, ready to fit out