Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

Sonia Nista  

Kitchen Specialist

Liz Scott

Garden Specialist

This week our on-site students had some floury fun in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen.

With lemons in abundance on our trees, it’s the perfect time to use this versatile citrus fruit.

We used a simple recipe for lemon yoghurt muffins, the perfect afternoon comfort food in the cooler weather and best of all the ingredients are usually staples in most kitchens. For gluten-free, simply substitute the flour for gluten-free self-rising flour, for a dairy-free substitute with coconut yoghurt and for an egg-free muffin, replace the egg with half a teaspoon of baking powder. If you are lucky enough to have passionfruit growing, scrape a couple into the batter, delicious!

I have shared this recipe in this issue of our newsletter and also with the students in Google Classroom.

With winter now well and truly upon us, we now look forward to the beautiful winter harvest from The Patch and being able to prepare and share some healthy, seasonal dishes with our students at The Patch Café. 

Happy cooking!

News from the ‘Patch’

During remote learning, l have continued to work in the Patch on Mondays and Tuesdays. Over this term, the students had planted our winter vegetables and this time in lockdown has given me the opportunity to weed around the seedlings and feed the garden beds with compost. 

With the beautiful weather Thursday last week the on-site students were able to go out into the garden and worked extremely hard in clearing out our corn patch.

Just before lockdown, we purchased four new hens. As the older hens can be very dominating by keeping the new hens away from food and water, I come in most days to ensure they get time to themselves and an adequate amount of food. I have constructed a run for them in the existing henhouse. This enables them to still interact with the other hens, have time to themselves and access to food and water. I do this every day however I leave them with the other girls for the weekend. It can take up to four or five weeks before they are accepted by the other hens, at least with the grumpy one.

We have had an amazing crop of lemons this year, check out the picture of the crazy one we grew in the patch.