Kitchen Garden Update

This month in the Kitchen

With winter well and truly here, our Year 3/4 classes spent this month making their own warming orecchiette pasta in class with a tomato sauce made using our own SKiPPS-grown tomatoes.

They paired this delicious dish by getting creative with a 'salad of your imagination' using the produce from the garden.

As always, our students came together and broken into four groups - each one responsible for a different aspect of the menu.

They discussed the many different types of pasta and tried their hardest with their Italian pronunciation. They talked about the pasta shape 'orecchiette' - translated as 'little ears' and how this can be made easily.

They made their pasta dough and then formed their own orecchiette, getting a small blob of dough and using a knife and flicking the pasta to create the ear shape.

They cooked this alongside a pasta sauce and a fresh salad from the garden.

Finally they sat down to enjoy the meal together. Why not try making your own pasta at home using the recipes found below?

This month's recipes