Week 2, Term 3

This week we made:

Seasonal Soup

Rocket, Red Onion and Cheese Pizza

Pasta with Herb and Tomato Sauce

Bashed Neeps and Carrots

Coleslaw

 

 

Soups were delicious, especially the one made with sugar snap, snow and minted peas!  Pizza was great – putting fewer ingredients on is really improving them. Pasta with tomato sauce was delicious, especially as we were able to purchase some very cheap but tasty tomatoes. Our coleslaw was greatly improved compared to previous times – we think it is because we used a coarser grater on the food processor. And the Bashed Neeps and Carrots (swede, carrots cooked and then mashed in butter) were incredibly popular. Great to see Sam enjoying them!!

As usual students displayed a wide range of skills in the kitchen – stirring, peeling, grating, frying, juicing, mashing and brushing.

 

 

The chooks seem very happy with their new home – everyone is enjoying working with them.

 

And finally two photos of Jack and Maggie. Jack did a great job up-dating our weather board. In these photos he is measuring the temperature of the soil.

 

 

Week 1 Term 3

We started our new five week block of menus  last week, consisting of variations on a pasta dish, a pizza, a salad, a vegetable dish and soup. Last week we made:

Seasonal Soup

Tomato, Herb and Cheese Pizza

Broccoli and Almond Pasta

Honey Carrots

Rocket, Pear and Walnut Salad

 

As usual it was great to see students participate so well and, in many cases, so independently. In the photos that follow you can see Cameron making pizza, Josh and Jackson chopping vegetables and stirring the soup, Laura frying walnuts, Ryan adding cheese to a pizza and Steven delivering dishes of food to the dining table.

We were able to harvest a variety of salad leaves this week including rocket, lettuce and mizuna; and as you can see from Frank’s photo we were also able to harvest broccoli.

Our chickens moved to their new home this week – the students did a fantastic job helping with the move – I must make a special mention of Shannon who made sure that Josie was included in this activity. The chickens seemed to cope with the move very well – thanks once again to Rotary of Bellerive for building their ‘palace’.

Seventeen visitors from Japan joined us for lunch this week!  Three mature students (all with Downs Syndrome), their mothers and three interpreters joined us for cooking and then the rest of the group joined us for lunch.  It was wonderful to see the way everyone worked together. We had to prepare twice as much food as usual but everyone coped really well and our visitors were most impressed.  One of the mothers said to me that in Japan students with special needs are just taught to cook basic foods – she was so impressed with the way our students are learning so much more than this in our program.

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