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Chookside News
The new chickens Stephanie and Alexandra have settled into a routine at Chookside. The pecking order is less noticeable as Pretzel and Penelope are getting used to sharing their patch.
The girls are doing a great job at eating the compostable from our cooking programs.
The eggs are becoming more regular in size and we now have enough for SAKG and Year 6 Food Tech.
Kitchen and Garden News
Garden
As the weather starts cooling down, our Year 4 students have been busy tidying up old crops and planting new ones. The herb wicking beds are now thriving with a large variety ready for winter cooking.
The beds are also covered with parsley seedlings which have been sown from previous season’s seeds. Sadly, the birds have damaged our crop of lettuce and beetroot. The joy of gardening is to experience successes and failures.
In the large bed, the zucchini continues to amaze us with their impressive growth and abundant crop. The pumpkin is showing signs of fruiting. We sowed peas, silverbeet and celery.
These will be ready for harvesting by the start of Term 2. To help the snow peas along, we made some climbing structures through teamwork efforts. The beds have been mulched and ready for the term break.
Cooking
With the eggs and zucchini from the garden, we cooked up an Asian feast. Using eggs laid by our girls, some of the groups made rice paper rolls with egg fillings whilst other groups made fried rice. Our other star ingredient was zucchini, which we turned into Asian salads with noodles. It was delicious.
We celebrated the end of Term 1 in the kitchen by making sweet treats and linking the experience with the idea of eating all food groups in moderation. We discussed the Healthy Eating Pyramid to help us understand what and how much we should eat each day. See recipe below for a healthy sweet treat using apples.
FRUIT LOG
Ingredients
2 cups SR Flour
2 tbls butter for making dough
¾ cup milk
2 tbls softened butter extra
2 tbls brown sugar
2 apples, peeled, cored and finely diced
½ cup sultanas
½ tsp cinnamon
Method
1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
2. Put flour into a large metal bowl, add 2 tbls butter and rub into flour with fingertips until it looks like breadcrumbs.
3. Add nearly all of the milk and mix with a wooden spoon. Knead until smooth.
4. Put dough on a chopping board dusted with flour and roll with a rolling pin until about ½ cm thick.
5. Spread 2 extra tbls softened butter over the dough with a butter knife and sprinkle with 2 tbls brown sugar.
6. Spread evenly with diced apple and sultanas, sprinkle over the cinnamon.
7. Roll into a log and seal both ends.
8. Place on a baking tray.
9. Cut slits only ¾ of the way through about 1.5 cm apart and brush with the remaining milk.
10. Bake until lightly golden.
Happy growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing!
SAKG Team