Week 9 Cooking
Week 9 Gardening
Category Archives: Kitchen Garden
Indian Flatbread & Baba Ganoush
This week, we made the Indian Flatbread again, so that other students had a chance to make it. We also made Baba Ganoush using the eggplants that we have been growing in our garden. The recipes for both are on the Recipes page.
Sharing Food
Indian Flatbread and Asian Coleslaw
Gardening
The Sunflower Group worked with Miss Emma in the garden on Wednesday. We added pea straw to some of our garden beds, watered the plants and worked on the compost bin.
Cooking
This week, the Basil and Cabbage Groups made Indian Flatbread and an Asian Coleslaw. Recipes can be found on the Recipe page.
Sharing Food
Fettuccine & Basil Pesto
Today’s recipe was Fettuccine with Basil Pesto. We made some dough and ran it through the pasta maker in order to make our own pasta. We used the basil from our garden to make the basil pesto. I’ll add a recipe section to our blog, so that you can make these meals at home for your families!
Cooking – Tabbouleh & Hommus
Today, we made tabbouleh and hommus and had a tasting of these with pita bread. Some of us liked these, but most of us found them too spicy or too healthy!
Preparing the food…
Our tasting platter…
Garden Lesson: The Garden’s Most Wanted
Visit the kitchen garden and look for any creatures, for example caterpillars, spiders, ants, birds, bees, or any other bugs.
Take a photo or draw sketches of the creatures in your Kitchen / Garden book.
Classify the creatures according to whether they eat plants (herbivore) or animals (carnivore). You will need to carry out some research on the internet to find out more about your creatures.
Further classify the creatures according to whether they are harmful to plants or helpful.
Make a list of ‘The Garden’s Most Wanted’ creatures who will cause the most damage to the kitchen garden.
Select one of the ‘most wanted’ creatures and make up an information card so that others can identify it in the garden. Your information card must include a photo/sketch/diagram (labelled), details about how they live, what they eat and how they reproduce, information about where they live in the garden and what sort of conditions they like.
You must also research some natural methods for getting rid of the ‘nasty’ creatures. Remember – we are growing an Organic garden so we can’t use chemicals or pesticides at all. You will need to work out strategies for controlling the pest in a natural way. Record your ideas in your kitchen / garden book.
http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_pest_cntrl.htm
http://www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au/upload/alternatives-to-chemicals/gardenalternatives.pdf
http://permaculturenews.org/2013/08/12/controlling-garden-pests-with-natural-remedies/
Photo by WGS Student, 2014