Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden (SAKG)
IN THE KITCHEN
We've sampled some delicious food over the past couple of weeks, continuing our journey through the decades.
In 2001, a famous celebrity chef was concerned with the rising rate of obesity in children and started a program at Collingwood College to educate children in the pleasures of growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh seasonal produce.
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program began and is now in over 10% of Australian primary schools. She visited the Ferrone family in 'Back in Time for Dinner' and made one of her signature dishes, zucchini rosti. We too made this dish, as well as cauliflower fritters and lemon and lime syrup cupcakes.
Yum!
Sushi also appeared in Australia in the 2000s, with young people eating nearly 9 million pieces of sushi a year!
We tried two other signature dishes from Japan (inspired by Mrs Dennehy's recent trip there!) Okonomiyaki, a savoury pancake and gyoza, a pan fried, then steamed dumpling.
It was chaotic making these three dishes but well worth the effort!
Please find recipes below.
IN THE GARDEN
As usual we've been very busy with our weeding (thanks to the warmer Spring weather which has made the weeds grow faster than normal), mulching, cutting back plants that have gone to seed and planting some new seedlings! Our major job though, has been preparing the area near our wonderful new courts and outside the canteen, in order to spread out some new grass seed as the area was just weeds! As this grows it will improve the area for our students. The warm weather and the rock hard ground that the students were digging into was hard work, but we are nearly there thanks to their perseverence! The broad beans have grown really well and so has our garlic, shallots and mini cucumbers. Well done gardeners! Welcome to our new volunteer Ros, it was so good to have an extra pair of hands and someone to help teach new skills to the 5/6s along with an appreciation of gardening.
The question for this week is:
How much sleep is recommended for Primary School Students? ( Remember to write your answer and your name and put it in the box in the office.)