This week we
cooked:
Wholemeal
rolls
Carrot
and Cumin Dip
Cheesy
Mashed Potato Bake
Pasta
with a Spring Vegetable Sauce
Silver
beet and feta rolls
Salad
of the Imagination
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Cody added the sprouted quinoa and mixed the salad very gently with her hands. |
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Pasta with a spring vegetable sauce |
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Salad of the Imagination - garnished with sprouted quinoa |
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Carrot and cumin dip - the favorite this week! |
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Silver beet, feta and ricotta rolls |
The carrot and
cumin dip was definitely the winner this week – in fact we are going to repeat
it next week; consisting of just carrots, garlic, olive oil and cumin it was
easy and healthy. We have been experimenting with sprouting quinoa and have
found that it makes a really tasty addition to our salads – the quinoa is
simply kept moist in a glass jar for 2 or three days and rinsed twice daily.
As mentioned
last week we are attracting quite a lot of publicity at the moment – an article
about our program has been published on the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden
Foundation web-site – take a look by going to http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/ and clicking on ‘Southern Support School’s
Kitchen Garden Program Flourishes’. We are also now the featured school in
their spring newsletter – you can access it from the following link:
The people at
the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation are delighted with what Southern
Support School is doing – here is a quote from the author of their newsletter,
commenting on the information given to here for inclusion in the article:
“It's wonderful to be able to include a
snapshot of your Kitchen Garden Program and how it operates in a special
school. Just great. I was so inspired by your email I printed it and read it to
anyone I could capture!”
And then after
it was published she has sent the following message:
“I've already received an email from a member
of the public wanting to assist in the Kitchen Garden Program at a special
school because of the feature story - just wonderful.”
Hopefully other
special school will be inspired to join the program.
After selling
out of recipe books yet again we have printed more and they are available at a cost
$10 from the front office or by sending a note in to us.
Next week we
are cooking:
Wholemeal rolls
Carrot and Cumin Dip
Mini Asparagus Quiches
Pasta with a Spinach Cream Sauce
Asian Carrot and Turnip
Minted Mixed Melon Salad
We have had a
lovely week in the garden, mainly preparing our beds for planting next week. We
have cut down and dug in our green manure crops, added lots of compost from our
compost bins and will be planting some seedlings and seeds next week.
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Ellen starts to dig in the green manure crop |
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It was quite hard to dig the green manure crop in! |
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Cody and Joseph shredded paper for the compost heap |
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We were given lots of grass cuttings for our compost heap |
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This bed is now ready for planting next week |
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Cameron harvested silver beet |
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It was so nice to be out in the warm sunshine |
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A busy morning |
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Michael helped clean up the garden beds |
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Litiani and Ryan worked hard digging in the green manure crop |
Jayden really enjoyed a sensory experience on Monday. We were given lots of bags of grass cuttings for our compost bins and decided to see whether Jayden would enjoy a grass cutting foot massage!! He loved it – fantastic smell and feel – a great sensory experience.
And here are a few more photos:
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Jack thinks that he might like to take a turn at what Rochelle is doing! |
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Welding the framework for the polytunnel |
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Jack had a go at making pasta |
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Liam did a good job peeling carrots |
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pasta making |
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Wow! |
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Jack did some cheese grating too |
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Cody enjoyed the salad that she had helped to prepare |
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Good work peeling the potatoes |
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Preparing the silver beet for the rolls |
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Spring vegetable sauce for the pasta |
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Cameron did a good job making the pasta |
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Carefully rolling the filo pastry for the silver beet, ricotta and feta rolls |
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Adding some seeds to the salad |
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