Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

This week we harvested our garlic - 50 beautiful purple bulbs!

The bulbs are hanging in the shed drying at the moment.

This week we cooked:

Bashed Neeps and Carrots

Kale and Onion Pizza

Broad Beans with Baby Spinach, Parsley, Feta and Almonds

Hasselback Potatoes

Arroz Verde (green rice)

Here are some photos of what we prepared - for some reason the 'Bashed Neeps and Carrots' didn't get photographed - maybe the students ate them so quickly there was no time!!!

Whilst the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program really focusses on students enjoying food that they have grown, harvested and prepared themselves, we are also seeing the development of a huge range of skills:

Jobe adding coriander to the food processor

Litiani peeling a carrot

Josie carefully removing stalks from kale

Jobe operating the food processor

Riley peeling carrots

Riley peeling swede

Darcy juicing a lemon

Jobe stirring

Darcy gently mixing the salad

Jobe doing some more stirring

Jackson mashing the swede and carrot

Ellen carefully adding olive oil to the salad

And of course we continue to have lots of fun! Pauline appointed Billy 'Head Chef' this week and he took to the role with relish!!

Not quite sure what to say about this - I think Tash was trying to get Billy to dance!!

And of course sitting and eating our food is always a very pleasant experience:

Blue and White Class

William investigating the pizza

In the garden we continue to complete maintenance tasks such as composting, watering and weeding. We are also preparing our beds for summer planting. We have some seedlings ready to plant, but need to be careful not to plant them too soon otherwise they will be ready before we return to school in 2013.

Cameron did a great job with composting this week: