Kitchen & Garden News

From Erin, Kristen R, & Tess, SAKGP team 

Hello Autumn

Last week in the kitchen we farewelled Summer (although Melbourne weather had other ideas!). 

Egyptian Sun bread platters

Everyone carefully measured wholemeal flour and diligently sifted out the wheat flakes with a sieve. Lots of patience and team work was needed to get through three cups of flour. Next we made our bread dough, using the reserved wheat flakes to toss our Sun bread shapes in.  They were decorated with symbols and patterns and then placed in the oven to bake.

Then it was time to make our tabbouleh and white bean dip, with lots of careful dicing, slicing and shredding. Our Autumn platters looked so colourful decorated with garden goodies including tomatoes, herbs, beans and even some lemon guava.

Delicious!! 

Check out our zucchini plants and their ever-evolving stages on the header page of the newsletter. Can you spot who’s visiting the flowers? 

Zucchini bread  with a mascarpone icing

Years 4A and 4B, had their final cooking session. 

Great grating was evidential across all teams in the two classes, with two teams actually having a grate off!  No fingers were damaged in the process, and some were able to grate their zucchini, resulting in little waste.

Whilst baking, the cakes filled the kitchen with a delicious smell, then once out of the hot ovens and cooled a little we iced them with a creamy delicious sweet icing.  Pumpkin and sunflower seeds were available to decorate on top.

These two classes were also awarded their knife licences. Every student has gained their licence, through hard work and constant practice of the three knife skills developed over the term.  

Students were individually awarded with their licence and a warm applause by their peers, as well as delivering a reflective statement of what they have leant or enjoyed about cooking this year.

Many comments were that they loved the new foods they prepared, excited about gaining their knife licence and the joy of sharing the prepared meal together. 

Well done 4A and 4B, keep using those knife skills safely and keep cooking.