Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

SAKGP Garden and Kitchen Programme 

News - from the kitchen & garden with Chris and Eve

Our cooking and gardening classes are each Tuesday

We would love to have more volunteers in both the garden and kitchen classes.

No garden or kitchen skills required, enthusiasm to support the students as they learn is all you need.

If you would like to know more, come into the office and see Chris (Principal)

gardening with Eve

This week in garden classes we did some cleaning up and played board games as a fun, relaxed last session.  I had promised the 4/5s that we could do cyanotypes before the end of the year so they made some (gorgeous!) Christmas cards using cyanotype method and plants from the school garden that they had pressed a few weeks earlier.  

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and look forward to seeing the kids again next year for more gardening adventures

cooking with Chris

Last P1 cooking session

For the last P1 cooking session Cam and I cooked for the P1 students and Kristie.

We cooked Mini Okonomyaki (Japanese Pancakes) from left over veggies and baked the Potato and Silverbeet Torte (cooked and frozen in a 45 class earlier this term). 

Cam made a greens and tomato and basil salad, coleslaw and potato salad from the ingredients left over from the Grade 6 Graduation dinner.  I made Strawberry Sorbet served it with banana muffins (made by parents and frozen) strawberries and vanilla ice-cream.

Everyone enjoyed the food and loved being served! 

Thanks Cam for your great help with the cooking and garden classes this term and thanks P1 and Kristie for great cooking sessions this term.

The photos and recipes for Mini Okonomyaki (Japanese Pancakes) and the Silverbeet and Potato Torte are below.

Below is last week's 4/5 cooking session that was left out of the newsletter:

For their last Cooking class for the year, Grade 4 and 5 cooked a Pizza Feast!  We cooked Potato and Rosemary Pizzas, Margherita Pizzas, Caramelised Pumpkin Pizzas and Pumpkin and Cheese Calzones and a delicious Salad of the Imagination.  

From the garden we used pumpkin, silverbeet, parsley, spring onions, rosemary, thyme, mizuna, and a variety of different lettuce leaves and kohlrabi.

Before recess we worked in teams to knead and shape the pizza dough and prepare the toppings for the pizzas.  We also had 6 Grade 1s join the teams today.

Chloe kindly brought in a bottle of her family’s homemade tomato passata and worked with Alfie to cook the sauce down to thicken it and add some “secret” herbs and spices to create the delicious tomato sauce for the Margherita pizzas. After kneading and rolling out the pizza dough, Ivy, Romy, Heidi and their team shaped the dough onto the pizza trays ready for the toppings to be added after recess.  Frankie B, Grace, Perla, Thea and their team, sliced the potatoes thinly and chopped the rosemary finely for the Potato and Rosemary topping. Harper and her team grated the mozzarella for all the pizzas and the parmesan for the Potato and Rosemary Pizzas.

Merry, Clem, Lexi, Ulla, Henry and Phoebe  worked well together to make the Caramelised Pumpkin topping.  They chopped the pumpkin into small pieces and cooked them until tender, shredded the silverbeet, fried the spring onions and added the stock, sugar and herbs to create the sauce.

Frankie C and Phoebe kneaded and shaped the Gluten Free dough and laid it out on the trays.  They added tomato passata and mozzarella cheese to make 2 GF Margherita Pizzas.

After recess, everyone worked in their teams to add the toppings to the pizza dough on the trays.  

Henry and his team harvested and washed and chopped lettuce, greens and herbs and added some crunchy kohlrabi to make a delicious for the Salad of the Imagination.

Great cooking Grade 4 and 5 and Grade 1s you created a fantastic Pizza feast.

Thanks Dana for all your help and Cam for helping prepare for the session. 

The recipes are attached.

This is what Grade 4 and 5 said about their cooking this week.

It was good but I’m still hungry. Ulla

I licked my plate, I like pizza! Matilda

The Potato and Rosemary Pizza was perfect and not too cheesy, but cheesy enough. Can’t be too cheesy! I loved the cheese crust on it. Alfie

Not too cheesy. Yes pleasy! Harper

Perfect for my last cooking session!. Henry

The Margherita Pizza was cheesy. I love how cheesy it was. Cheese forever! Alfie