Garden to Table - Celebrating with Tongan Food and other delights!

 We have been celebrating food from around the world at Garden to Table this term - from the Cook Islands and Italy to, more recently, Tonga. 

Our menu for Tongan language week was: 

- chop suey

- keke Vai (Tongan pancakes) 

- coconut cookies (Masi Samoa) 

  

We have been using all our seasonal vegetables to create lots of delicious recipes - greens to make risotto and fritters and pizza, lemons to make muffins and bliss balls and carrots to add to our ANZAC biscuits or just eat raw! 

 

We tried using a purple carrot in the ANZAC biscuits recipe instead of the usual orange carrot - it had a fascinating effect! The mixture started off purple, then went blue, after cooking it went green! 

We've also been getting through our kumara stash and collecting bean seeds!

 

 

 

 

 

Garden to Table with Room 3 & 6

 When life gives you lemons... make LEMONADE! ... and lemon muffins, lemon bliss balls and lemon cake!  Or just cut up and eat the lemons as they are! 

Room 3 and Room 6 have had a wonderful 5 weeks of Garden to Table making many different dishes using the lemons and the winter veggies from the garden. They have made: 

• Chop suey 

• herby breadsticks

• pumpkin curry 

• air fryer cauliflower 

• corn fritters 

• kumara scones

Growing and decorating gourds was also a new, interesting experience for the students. 

Our most popular recipes can be found on this blog under the 'Garden to Table & Recipes' tab.  

There's more recipes linked in the text too. Can't find the recipe you're after? Just ask Victoria or Miss Long for it. 

Our great big GARDEN TO TABLE BAKE SALE!

Our long awaited BAKE SALE is finally here! 

This year we had Room 2 (year 6) and Room 5 (year 4/ 5) baking during their sessions and then helping to sell at lunchtime. 

There was a great buzz from the whole school about what treats they wanted to buy! 

Our top sellers, as always, were the beetroot brownie and herby breadsticks. 

We collected in $683! 

We are looking to update some of our kitchen equipment using this money. 

prep time!

setting it all up