Kitchen Garden 

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eek 6&7 in the Kitchen... 

National Reconciliation  Week

Reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, for the benefit of all Australians.

The focus of our sessions in week 7 have been surrounding native and Indigenous produce and how it can be incorperated into our dishes.

We discussed where these ingredients could be found and how they could be used. The menu can be seen in the image below. 

This weeks menu consisted of  Lemon Myrtle Truffles, Pumpkin Soup with fried Salt Bush, Damper with Lemon Myrtle and Lemon Myrtle Tea. 

We love our Lemon Myrtle tree (actually we have 2 of them). We used the lemon myrtle leaves to make some soothing tea and we also dried the leaves, crushed the leaves and used this to maike some lemon myrtle & coconut truffles! A fantastic way to show how diverse lemon myrtle can be. 

We made use of saltbush and sprinkled it on top of our pumpkin soup.  We found this in planty at  the beach. Finally, we used crushed  wattleseed from wattle trees in damper that accompanied our soup. Wattleseed has a lovely earth flavour which adds a beauful flavour to food. 

Many children loved the menu, so I have attcahed the recipes incase you'd like to try them at home. 

Enjoy your week!

Parent Volunteers

If you would like to volunteer in the Kitchen & Garden program, please send an email to your class teacher who will then let us know your availability. Parents will be assigned to work alongside their child in either the kitchen or garden unless otherwise requested.

Kitchen Specialist; 

Pia Macris & Colleen Slattery

Recipes 

GARDEN 

           Reconciliation Week.

This week in our garden we acknowledged National Reconciliation Week by visiting our indigenous garden and bush tucker garden.

We discovered and picked lemon myrtle leaves, lomandra, gum leaves and Correa trumpet flowers.

We used these aromatic leaves in our Bush bags,   we crushed and assembled  the leaves in hessian cloth and ejoyed the  beautiful scent.

As the cooler weather approaches we are planting seeds to house in our hothouse. We

regularly check the temperatue in our hothouse and often notice that the temperatre is 4-6 degrees warmer, which means we can germinate seeds for much longer. 

Its also a great place to get away from the cold mornings.

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More Great weeks in our Autumn kitchen garden.

Happy Gardening

Sandy