Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden 

Two weeks with 3/BM have already flown by, and what a wonderful start we have had together in the Kitchen Garden Program. The students have shown great enthusiasm and curiosity as they have worked together to create a range of delicious foods in the kitchen. It has been wonderful to see them developing their cooking skills, trying new ingredients and flavours, and working cooperatively with their classmates. The children have embraced each task with excitement and should be very proud of their efforts.

Unfortunately, the heavy rain last Thursday meant that we were unable to spend time in the garden. While we were disappointed to miss our outdoor session, the wet weather was certainly welcomed by our plants and garden beds. With the sunshine making a return this week, we are looking forward to getting back outside and tackling some important garden jobs. The students will be busy digging, raking, weeding and pruning as we work together to keep our garden healthy, productive and ready for the cooler months ahead.

A special thank you goes to the wonderful volunteers who have generously given their time to support our Kitchen Garden sessions. Their help and encouragement make a tremendous difference and allow the students to enjoy valuable hands-on learning experiences in both the kitchen and the garden. We are incredibly grateful for the support of Milena (Lucy’s mum), Ashleigh (Azaria’s mum), Christina (Violet’s mum) and Chetan Mani (Aarav’s dad). Thank you for sharing your time, energy and enthusiasm with our students. We look forward to another exciting week of cooking, gardening and learning together.

Happy cooking! 

Tammie Siegert

Ivy - My group is tomatoes. I made cheese straws.

Violet - My first cooking lesson was amazing. I was in the eggplant group and we got to make zucchini carbonara. We needed salt, pepper, cream, capsicum, parmesan, oil and pasta. My first thing I had to do was cut up zucchini in the thinnest you can. Then we cut up the capsicum in little pieces. We put all the cut up food in a bowl and put it in the oven. After that we put oil in the bowl with the food and stirred it. After that we put all the food in the oven with the pasta and cooked it.

Lucy - On my first lesson in the kitchen garden we did a lot of things. My mum came to help out with the cooking.

Scarlett - I made cheese straws, basically cheese breadsticks. It was very fun to make this.

John - Today I made lemon muffins. I mixed egg, self raising flour, sugar, lemon zest, caster sugar, lemon juice, vegetable oil, vanilla yogurt and I had lots and lots of fun. We squeezed a lot of lemons and we mixed some eggs and had plenty of fun with my friends.

Joel -  This cooking lesson I’m excited to eat the food. I made salad. I used capsicum, lettuce and something else that was green.  I emptied the compost to the compost city and saw rainbow loreketes and pigeons flying around and eating.  THE END

Ava - Today me and my group made cheese straws. Here are the ingredients.

1. Flour

2. A bit of water 

3. Mozzarella cheese

4. Salt

5. Melted butter

Cant wait to try it!!!!!!

Aria - Today I  made Zucchini Carbonara. It was so fun! I cut zucchini and capsicum.

Charlie Roy - Today, I made a zucchini carbonara with garlic red capsaicin and pepper. made it with wooden spoons and  a garlic crusher for the garlic.

Lorenzo - Today my group and I made Italian salad. It had onions, lettuce, tomato, olives and oils.

Santino - My first cooking lesson for 2026 was brillllliant. We made cheese straws. We used cheese, flour, melted butter and water. The cheese straws looked gross.

Lucy -  In this lesson it was fun and not so fun. The not so fun thing was that when me and Azaria had to mix up this gooey stuff and one by one lots of people put different ingredients in. But the bad thing is…….they put green yucky stuff in that looked like seaweed! And I ABSOLUTELY HATE seaweed! Buuuuuut I really wasn't supposed to be in that group. I only got moved to that group because there weren't enough people in that group. Me and Azaria named our eggs. My one was called Michael Jackson and Azaria’s one was called Speckled Eggs. I hope you enjoyed my annoying speaking.

Levi - I made pastry which was the main meal.I am in the zucchini group and I think lots of people like cooking.

William - In this cooking lesson we made the main meal which is a type of paste with some type of  vegetarian meat inside!

Ivy - In this cooking lesson we made the main meal which is a type of paste with some type of  vegetarian meat inside!

Azaria - In this lesson I made the main meal,and I got to do the pastries.It was very fun and not so fun the fun bit was i got to do the pastries and mix the stuff inside it with my hands and Lucy also got to do it.The not so fun bit was when this basil moss looking thing came when me and Lucy were mixing with our hands,it felt really gooey and slimy then made it a bit slippery to pick up and hard to mix.I hope you enjoyed listening to me.

Mila B - My group is Carrot ! Today I made lemon muffins.  The ingredients are eggs, lemon and the juice of yogurt, sugar, vegetable oil and 2 cups of flour.

Lena - Today my table made the main meal which was a roll of chopped carrots, Zucchini, onion and cream cheese and cheddar cheese. Some people got to chop like I did and two people got to mix it together. At the end we got something like a pastry thing then put egg yolk on top and put the mixed thing inside.  Later we used a fork for the thing inside to not come out and put it in the oven.

Zoe - This cooking lesson  I made the salad was really fun.  I am even more excited because my mum is helping next week. This is the salad Ingredients we used yellow capsicum, spring onion, lettuce,  salt, pepper, olive oil. It was so fun.  I did the compost. 

Leo - Today I was making lemon muffins. First we mixed caster sugar and self-raising flour. Then we put eggs, lemon zest, lemon juice and vegetable oil. Then we put the batter in the trays and put it in the oven. 

Aarav - Today we made zucchini and cream cheese pastry puffs. First we had to grate the zucchini and carrots. Then we mixed the zucchini and carrots with blocks of cream cheese. Then we folded the pastry and sealed them with a fork. Then we brushed the puff pastry with egg and then we baked it. The food tasted yummy and after eating we washed the plates and went out to play. I had an amazing time cooking this week.

Pravij - This SAKG lesson was not bad. We did the dip and made carrot sticks.  We also set up the tables, plates, knives and forks. I want to bring at least one of everything. I'm going to get and eat ALOT of  muffins they  smell SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good im also gonna get 1 thing if everything. 

Sefam - Today at SAKG class we did the main meal which was this kind of roll.  The ingredients were carrot, zucchini, cream cheese, shredded cheese and puff pastry.  Then we used a brush to brush the pie and put the zucchini thing.