Stephanie Alexander Kitchen 

 

Sonia Nista - Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Specialist

All students have now had a taste of the Middle East and completed this tasty menu. Our menu consisted of falafels, Israeli salad and pita bread. Our Year 3 students are currently working their way up to making a full menu, so they made the falafels and the delicious salad. We had a close look and feel of some crystallised rock salt from the Dead Sea, and talked about Middle Eastern cuisine. There was also discussed what’s happening in our Stephanie Alexander garden, in particular, garlic which Alba has been focusing on with our Year 2 and 3 students.

A huge thank you must go out to the Daniel family for bringing the rock salt for us all to have a look at. Jodie was kind enough to stay and help with most of the kitchen sessions, where she talked about her experiences in Israel and the Dead Sea.

Thanks also to Planet Hope for the continued sponsorship of the SAKG program, where we use these wonderful, environmentally friendly cleaning products. To place an order please contact Jill via the planet hope website, www.planethope.com.au.

Please enjoy the comments and photographs taken by our students during this menu!

               Middle Eastern Menu 5R

By Asher, Zeta, Summer, Darcy, and Max

Tomato Facts

• Tomatoes originally came from Peru, where their Aztec name translated to plump thing with a navel.
• The scientific name for tomato is Lycopersicon lycopersicum meaning wolf peach.
• People used to be afraid to eat tomatoes, thinking them poisonous due to their relation to the belladonna or (deadly nightshade) plant.

Ready to cook these scrumptious Falafels 🤤

Falafels

Asher 

I love it so much I could eat it 24-7 only thing I could improve is making them a similar size.

Max

It was so yum I could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner for a week

Darcy

It was so good I can eat it all day

Summer

I really enjoyed this delicious, astonishing meal! It was so good that I would definitely make it at home! I'm so glad I tried this!

Zeta 

It was so good I could eat it all 

Middle Eastern menu 4H - Yan Liv Hayley Siara Luca Ryan Owen

Falafels 

The Falafels had heaps of flavour and were also crunchy

The bit where we got stuck was the shaping!

Israel salad 

The salad was a great hit and sauce was really nice

The hardest bit was peeling the cucumber!

Pita bread 

The pitas were delicious and got the thumbs up

Hardest part was flipping the pitas!

Pitas originated from Western Asia!