It was definitely time for some baking at Cooking Club. We made gingerbread biscuits and oaties. Each recipe involved combining butter, sugar and syrup to the dry ingredients to form a dough. We rolled balls of dough and flattened them on the baking tray to bake until golden.
Let us know how they tasted!
We built on our cooking skills from previous weeks to make this yummy sweet snack. We whisked together egg and milk then dipped slices of brioche into it the mixture. We cooked the brioche in a little butter in a frying pan. The children chose strawberries, bananas, kiwi, grapes and apple for their kebabs and drizzled a little honey over the finished dish. Great work Cooking Club!
Wow! This super quick pasta tea was really tasty! The photographs show just how much the children enjoyed cooking and eating it!
We cooked the onion and bacon before adding the cooked pasta along with some of the cooking water from the pan. We whisked an egg into grated parmesan cheese. The final stage was to remove the pan from the heat and add the cheese and egg mixture. A quick stir and shake and it was ready! Delicious.
This week the children rose to the challenge of preparing pizza dough by rubbing butter into flour to create a breadcrumbs texture before adding egg and forming a dough ball. Once rolled, they spread and sprinkled on the toppings. To make the wheels, they then rolled the whole pizza again and cut it into slices. Great fun and very delicious!
What a great first week in Cooking Club. The group from Year 3 and 4 will be practising their cooking skills and making a variety of dishes, savoury and sweet. This week, they prepared their own delicious Pitta Pockets and learned food hygiene routines and the Bridge and Claw techniques for cutting using a kitchen knife. A great start everyone. Mr Arnett, Mrs Elliott and Mrs Price were really impressed!
Well done to all the children who helped to bake cupcakes and cookies for the Colour Run Bake Sale. A huge thank you to parent Mrs Vishnureddy who came into school to cook the delicious Onion Bhaji’s and told us that we should fill our food with happiness. We had a lot of fun and the Bake Sale raised over £200 for Comic Relief. Great effort everyone.
Happy Holi
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
Learning this classic poem by Edward Lear inspired Year 2 to make some delicious Great Green Soup. They used knives safely to chop courgette, celery and cabbage before cooking the soup with water and vegetable stock. Finally, the soup was blended to make the fantastic green colour.
Well done to all the children for developing their cutting and snipping skills and for trying a new dish. This super healthy soup tasted great.
As part of their Arts Fortnight, 3A explored a brief for the creation of Room 17 (a space to create, make, invent, inspire, be entrepreneurial, use and share skills). They explored what it means to be part of a community and how they could be someone special. Read more about this in the ACE Art Blog.
As part of their work, they explored Food in our ACE community and prepared some Food in our ACE Cafe to share with their parents at their Arts Celebration.
They discussed recipes they like to cook at home and chose to prepare Falafel with Guacamole, Salsa, Tzatziki, Houmous and Baba Ganoush to share at the celebration.
They used the skills of grating, scraping, mashing, chopping and mixing, using fresh vegetables, chickpeas, herbs and spices to create their delicious dishes.
It was great to share our healthy food and try new flavours.
Take a look at the foods we love to cook at home!
