Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

SAKG Programme 

News from the kitchen & garden with Chris and Eve

Gardening

We had a very successful tomato and seedling fundraiser on Friday. Eve did an incredible job growing and caring for the seedlings and preparing them for sale. There are still some available in the Produce Cart for anyone who missed out.

Eve has also been running some fantastic gardening activities with students, including making their own watering cans, printing on bags and preparing garden beds for spring planting.

Cooking

Grade F and 1 Cooking 

 Week 4

In Cooking in Week  4 Grade Prep and 1 made Margherita Pizzas, Caramelised Pumpkin pizzas and Potato and Rosemary Pizzas and a Salad of the Imagination.

From the garden we used garlic, spinach and silverbeet, oregano and rosemary and steamed pumpkin from the freezer. And broad beans, herbs, lettuce and edible flowers for the salad.    We worked in 3  groups to prepare the pizza toppings.

Dean, Finn, Eden and Eddie worked with Sue to chop the pumpkin and chop the greens and herbs into small pieces for the Caramelised Pumpkin and Spinach Pizzas.  They measured out the stock and brown sugar and spices.  Then they cooked the ingredients for the Caramelised Pumpkin topping.  They also made a GF Caramelised Pumpkin Pizza with the GF Pizza base we made and froze last term.

Luca C, Alfie, Atlas and Xavier, worked with Jodie and chopped the herbs and cooked the tomato sauce for the Margherita Pizzas.  They grated the mozzarella and parmesan cheese for the pizzas.

Leif, April and Luca chopped the rosemary and herbs finely for the Potato and Rosemary Pizzas and grated the cheeses. Chris showed them how to slice the potatoes thinly with the mandolin. 

After preparing the pizza toppings, we cleaned down the tables ready to knead the pizza dough and make the pizzas.  

Everyone did a great job kneading the pizza dough until it was soft and pliable. Then they learnt how to roll the dough into a ball, press it down into a circle and use the rolling pins to roll out the dough into a great pizza shape, the size of the pizza trays.  They all did an amazing job and were very proud of their efforts.  

After recess, P1 worked in their groups to add the Margherita, Potato and Rosemary and Caramelised Pumpkin toppings to the pizzas.  

While the pizzas were cooking, Grade 2s joined us and helped the P1s clean the tables and rinse the dishes and set the tables. Allie and her group and Jodie took the P1s into the garden to harvest lettuce, herbs and edible flowers for a Salad of the Imagination. Elio and Nicholas and their group made a delicious dressing for the salad.  Sue’s group set the tables and Elio and his team did the dishes and set out the plates for the pizzas. It was a great team effort from P and 1 and 2 students to get the everything ready to share the pizzas we cooked. 

It was a great cooking session and everyone tried the pizzas they made.

Well done Preps and Grade 1s and thanks Grade 2 students who joined in to help us and share the pizzas. Thanks Sue and Jodie for a great cooking session.

This is what they said about cooking this week …

We harvested the salad ingredients, it was really, really good!. Eden, Edie and Matilda

I loved the Potato and Rosemary Pizza. Xavier

The Caramelised Pumpkin Pizza was amazing! Pheobe

My favourite is the Margherita, then the Caramelised Pumpkin, then the Potato and Rosemary Pizza.  Luca C

I liked the Potato Pizza, I just got full! Indi

The Caramelised Pumpkin pizza is my favourite. Nicholas

The crust is the best and the Margherita Pizza is the best  Poppie

I really liked the Margherita and I liked the Caramelised Pumpkin pizza. Leif

Grade 2 and 3 Cooking Term 4 

Week 3

In Cooking in Week 3, Grade 2 and 3 celebrated Indigenous Greens and Herbs and made Native Herbs Damper, GF Native Herbs Damper and Fat Free Native Herbs Damper that we served with Pumpkin Soup we made last term and froze.

We used dried native herbs, native mint, native oregano, native thyme and warrigul greens, chives and greens from the garden.

Matilda, Phoebe, Poppie and Ella worked in two groups  to make the GF Native Herbs Damper and the Oil Free Native Herbs Damper. They chopped the herbs and greens together and then made the two different damper doughs separately.  Ella and Poppie cooked the Oil Free Damper they made separately in the airfryer. 

Augie, Indi and Pete worked together to chop the native herbs and greens and Noah Oliver and David worked together to measure out the ingredients for the damper and mixed it together. 

Nicholas, Gus and Percy measured out the flour and water for the Damper in their group and Elio, Cooper and Bobbie chopped the greens and native herbs and measured out the dried herbs.  Jesse took the photos of the groups preparing ingredients and cooking.

Everyone did a great job to have their damper made and shaped  ready to cook after recess. 

After recess, Nicholas, Gus, Augie, Percy, David and Noah worked together to cook the damper in the frypans. While the Pumpkin Soup was heating and the damper was cooking, the other teams, cleaned the kitchen. stacked, washed and wiped the dishes and put away them away.

Allie and her group picked flowers from the garden to decorate the tables. 

When the Native Herbs Dampers were cooked, we served up the Pumpkin Soup.

Well done Grade 2 and 3 and Kristie for a great cooking session, the damper was delicious and went well with the Pumpkin Soup.

The recipes for the Native Herbs Dampers are attached.

This is what they said about their cooking…

I really appreciated what we cooked. I really liked how the pumpkin soup was so nice. The damper was good.  Indie

They were both really good.  I cooked the GF  damper and picked the flowers.  Allie

The Fat Free Damper was too good to be true. 1,000 thumbs up!  Ella

The raw damper dough was really good!.  Poppie

It was really delicious!   Elio

The damper was delicious!  Zak

The damper was delicious!  Jesse

Everything was delicious!  Matilda

Thumbs up for the damper and the soup!  Gus

Everything was absolutely amazing, especially the damper.  Augie

1 million thumbs-up for the damper.  Percy

I used to not like soup, but when I put the damper in the soup, it was really good.  Noah