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.
Special
Offer
We
have a few copies of our 2012 Kitchen Garden Recipe Book left and have reduced
their price from$10 down to $7.50. If you would like a copy please contact our
school office.
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