Pancakes and herb butter and cheesy muffins - oh my

Room 16 had yet another fantastic Garden to Table session. Our gardening team collected herbs and veggies for the cheesy muffins and herbed butter the kitchen team was planning to make. While the garden team were enjoying the fresh air the kitchen team prepared buttermilk pancakes, made butter from cream and added fresh herbs from the school gardens. The veggie and cheesy muffins tasted absolutely delicious with the herbed butter and onion jam - ka pai Room 16! We were thrilled to learn that the home made grape jam came from Lachlan's mum - it was delicious! Parents were kept up to date with the cooking and garend with regular Seesaw updates.
We can't wait to have our next session in Term 3.
Thank you so much to our amazing Garden to Table team and parent helpers from Room 16.

Garden to Table - Room 16

Today the Savage Sixteen's had our first Garden to Table experience. Our Year 3's had a blast in the kitchen and garden and can't wait for the next session. They are going to make graphs of the food they ate at each session to show their parents what they liked best!
Here are some photos of the children learning knife skills, cooking and baking, weeding and planting!

G2T 13/14 Group 2

Today, Room 13/14's Group 2 had their first session at Garden to Table. This was the first time the Year 3's had been exposed to the programme. They had a great time. Here are some of the photos that were taken:

Ruma Waru LOVE Garden to Table

We have been so fortunate to be part of this fantastic learning experience and are very grateful to Whaea Lee, who has been running it, and our sensational parents who have been supporting us.

Week 7 & 8

This week in the kitchen 
We made corn bread, black bean salsa and guacamole. Our sweet treat was macadamia nut chocolate.

We were given some reed avocados so we used them for the mousse and the salsa.  We also put pineapple in our salsa.  

We also got given some macadamias so we roasted them and used them to make the crushed nut chocolate.  Yummy!

Yummy Macadamia Chocolate

Pedram loved the corn bread!

Sharing a meal together

Standout children were:

Cooper for making salad and loving eating the lemons!
Daniel for stirring the chocolate.
Oliver Reeve for being a beetroot grating machine and for trying beetroot even though he didn't really like it.

Extras
Room 13 helped out with hangi preparations - we made salads to accompany the hangi.  Coleslaw and grated beetroot and carrot.


Room 14 made a lovely roast vegetable salad for teachers with some of the left over hangi vegetables.  The teachers loved it.

Cooper and Jashan making dressing for the teachers salad

Oliver grating beetroot - what a champ!

Laila and Amelia about to go and deliver the salad to the staffroom

Look at all those hangi prep peelings in the compost!

Busy work

Weeks 5 & 6

Curry Week!

This week in the kitchen we made a pumpkin, cauliflower and chickpea curry.  We also made a rice pilaf.  One group had to grind the spices, garlic and ginger with a mortar and pestle.  Our sweet was a buttermilk pancake with rhubarb and orange compote.

Yum! we all loved it.

Clearing the tables after we have eaten

Meanwhile in the garden
The seeds and seedlings are growing, and we are weeding and collecting materials for our compost.

Hector and the skink

Our seed raising trays

Standout children this week were:
Luke, Sabine, Jordan and Sebastian for their excellent cutting skills
Laila and Shelby for eating up a storm.

Week 3 & 4

Session 2 - Weeks 3 & 4
We are getting into the swing of things now and our second sessions at garden to table were great.

In the garden
In the garden we have been busy planting seeds and we planted some brassica seedlings in our garden. We are also getting our compost and worm farms in good working order.

In the kitchen
This week we made silverbeet muffins with onion jam and herb butter.
We also made honeycakes for our sweet treat.

Evie baking muffins

Shaking cream to make butter

Daniel the onion stirrer

Oliver's herb chopping skills

Stand out children this week were:

Daniel for being a champion onion jam chef

Enere for loving the onion jam and herb butter

Laila for being great at dishes

Amelia C for always looking for more work to do in the kitchen.