Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

SAKGP Garden and Kitchen Programme 

News - from Chris and Mel in the kitchen & garden

In the Garden with Mel

This week, P-1, 456H and 456JC pulled out the last of the tomatoes and the summer vegetables.  

We planted garlic and renovated the tea garden. 

We also harvested celery, Tuscan Kale, silverbeet, parsley, mizuna and spigiarello broccoli for 2/3 cooking.  

In the Kitchen with Chris 

This week Grade 2/3 made an Indian feast of Saag Paneer and Indian flatbread.

We made our own Paneer (Indian Cheese) using milk and lemon juice. The students loved seeing the curds and whey separate when the lemon juice was added to the hot milk. It was a great experience seeing how easy cheese is to make. 

Emma’s group made the Indian Flatbread and showed great patience and skill mixing, kneading and rolling out the rounds of dough.  Emma and Cooper did a great job cooking all the flatbread. Emma’s group lost  count of how many flatbreads they made, but we ate them all! 

Chris’s group did a great job washing and carefully chopping all the greens harvested from the garden on Monday. They finely chopped the garlic and ginger to make a paste for the Saag Paneer.  After stir frying the greens we steamed them for 15 mins to infuse the flavours. We made a separate chilli and garlic mix for the students who like a little spice in their Saag Paneer. 

We also had a sweet dish of poached pears using the pears that Deita and Mina brought in.  If you’d like to make them at home, the pears were peeled, quartered and poached for 10 mins in a cup of water, 2 tablespoons of honey, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and a pinch of grated nutmeg. All of the class loved the pears! 

Cooper loved the bread he cooked, because it was crunchy and soft on the inside.   Koby said the bread was the best. Thea said the Saag Paneer was really good. 

Rosa said “I liked the Saag Paneer and the bread. I was a helper as I hurt my pinky at netball  and couldn’t cook or mix and knead the Indian Bread.”

Great cooking 2/3s.  Some photos and the recipes are below. 

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