An incredibly warm welcome to 2014!!! The garden just gets bigger and better, as do the incredible smells and flavours from the student kitchen!
Over the summer months the garden has survived the extreme heat – probably better than some of us!! The students are very excited to see “the pumpkins plants going crazy and the pumpkins already so big!” The stunning “sunflowers are standing super tall”, the tomatoes are turning “green to red” the large variety of flavoursome herbs and “beetroots that are bigger than a softball”. We start to say goodbye to our strawberries and hello to apricots- yum!
Students continue to enjoy making their own pasta and tasty pasta sauces – kale pesto this fortnight! They will make salads of their imagination, all sorts of breads and pastries, pickled cucumbers and bottle tomatoes, just to name a few! All recipes can be found on this blog – enjoy!
25/2/14
During our first kitchen lesson, my mum came to help out. Our group was saucing the tomatoes. The reason being, that tomatoes are in season now and we had heaps of them, and also because we were thinking ahead. If we were going to make the sauce now, that meant that, it will be ready for when we want to use it. The exercise was SOO much fun !! We got tomato EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!! We managed to fill four and a half bottles full of tomato sauce!! At the end, when we finally got to eat I was very impressed with today’s menu. Although we didn’t eat the sauce that we made I was really proud of all the other groups. There was tomato, feta and basil tarts (yum!!), there was vegetable rice (also yum!!), there was a quinoa salad with chickpeas, and apple and Beetroot muffins. Today’s lesson was awesome and I can’t wait until next lesson.
Hi 4A,
At home I would like bottle some tomatoes because we have so many tomatoes growing in our back garden. How many tomatoes did you put per bottle and how big was the bottle? Do I have to do anything to make sure the bottle is clean?
Thank you,
Julie