Welcome to the Prep Cooking Blog. use this page to explore and get ideas to have fun in the kitchen together with your family. whilst you are in the kitchen, use this opportunity to help and watch your mum or dad cook in the kitchen. cooking is a fun way to learn about different foods and an even better way to learn your maths, science and reading.there will be recipes, videos and stories that you can watch in the prep section. please also go back to the kitchen section and scroll through for more fun things to cook.

ALWAYS cook with your mum or dad, so you are safe.

make sure you get lots of sleep, drink lots of water and eat your fruits and vegetables, to make sure your body and brain are healthy and ready for your learning. love chef lisa

Welcome PREPS. I hope you have had a great start to your first school year. Make sure you make the time to take care of yourself . Remember to eat as healthy as you can, drink lots of water and also get lots of sleep, so that you can start your day with lots of energy.

Remember to eat lots of colours of the rainbow in your lunchbox to help you grow and stay healthy.

Love Chef Lisa

100 DAYS OF PREP

CONGRATULATIONS

WELL DONE PREPS ON ACHIEVING SUCH A BIG MILESTONE IN YOUR LEARNING AT SCHOOL. YOU ARE ALL SUPERSTARS.

TO HELP YOU CELEBRATE, SCROLL DOWN TO FIND SOME FUN RECIPES THAT YOU CAN COOK IN YOUR KITCHEN, WITH YOUR MUM, DAD, OR SPECIAL PERSON.

HAPPY COOKING!!

100 days of PREP

I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating

100 days of Learning in Prep.

Today we are going to celebrate and make

FUNFETTI Pancakes

You should be very proud of yourselves.

YOU DID IT.

VANILLA CUPCAKES.mp4

Watch the video above to see how to make VANILLA CUPCAKES for your 100 days afternoon tea, with your family. You can stop and start the video to cook along with me in my kitchen.

HAVE FUN

Allergy Friendly Frosting

1/2 cup dairy free butter / Nuttelex margarine ½ tsp vanilla extract 2 ½ cups sifted icing sugar 3-4 Tbsp full fat milk

Mix to combine and use to pipe on frosting

Buttermilk Recipe

To make the buttermilk just add 1 TBS of lemon juice to 1/2 cup milk. Let it sit for 10 min then add to your recipe.

lrigon@spadoreen.catholic.edu.au

ALLERGY FRIENDLY SUBSTITUTES

The cupcake recipe can be adapted to suit allergies or intolerances. Please see list below for alternatives.

FLOUR: Any flour can be substituted according to product cooking details

EGGS: Egg Replacer, mashed banana or chia seed egg

MILK: Soy Milk, Rice Milk, Lactose Free Milk can be used.

BUTTER: Nuttelex or any dairy free Margarine or coconut oil.

SUGAR: Stevia / Natvia, Rice Malt Syrup, Erythritol, Monkfruit, Apple Puree

TAKE A PHOTO OF YOU BAKING YOUR CUPCAKE

If you would like your photo added to the cooking blog, please have your parents email me, to allow this to happen.

ASTEROIDS

This week in Science we were learning about Asteroids. The children had the opportunity to link in what they learnt from Science to come into the kitchen to make Asteroids. Each ingredient used was a representation of the elements that makes up an Asteroid.

This was a great visualisation and hands on experience for the children to understand the elements and what an asteroid is made up of.

The children enjoyed the whole experience and there was definitely a buzz in the air.

ART IN THE KITCHEN

Have some art fun in the kitchen and create your own piece of art using scraps or items from the kitchen. You can use things like, potato, banana, orange and apple peels, shell of avocado, offcuts of fruits and vegetables, seeds, slices of fruit or blueberries for eyes., lettuce leaves. There are so many things in the kitchen that you can use.

Watch the video below of Arcimboldo's portraits using fruits, vegetables, flowers, scraps etc. This will give you an idea of what this looks like.
Draw a picture that you want to create using your scraps or things from your kitchen. You need to do this with a big person ,so you can make sure that what you chose to use in your picture is safe and you are allowed to use it.
What is your picture going to be of? It could be a rainbow, a mountain, the clouds, a person, an animal, favourite cartoon character, a person, the list is endless.
Do not use food that you will not be eating as it is not about wasting food. If you are not going to eat your creation then use food scraps.
Below are some examples
Take a photo of your artwork and send it to: lrigon@spadoreen.catholic.edu.au

WHAT ARE YOU GRATEFUL FOR TODAY?

The Thankful Song

Watch the video BELOW about being thankful. What are you thankful for today??

Gratitude Video.mp4

GRAND FINAL 2021

Enjoy the Grand Final this year with your very own homemade sausage rolls. Spend time together watching the game and enjoy what you have made.

SAUSAGE ROLLS

THESE TASTY LITTLE MORSELS OF FLAKEY PASTRY WITH BEAUTIFULLY COOKED MEAT ARE AN ALL TIME FAVOURITE AS A LUNCHTIME ITEM OR A GREAT GRAND FINAL SNACK. THERE ARE SAUSAGE ROLLS AND THEN THERE ARE SAUSAGE ROLLS. SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? IT IS ALL IN THE PASTRY AND OF COURSE ALL IN THE MEAT THAT YOU USE, YOU CAN USE SAUSAGE MINCE BUT DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT CUT OF MEAT OR BETTER STILL WHAT ELSE IS ADDED TO IT,

FOLLOW MY RECIPE BELOW AND MAKE MY SAUSAGE ROLL RECIPE. HAPPY COOKING XX

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WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE SAUSAGE ROLLS.

ROCKY ROAD

Follow the recipe opposite to make your own Rocky Road.

What are you going to add to your recipe?

Why do you think they call it Rocky Road?

Make your Rocky Road and then write your own recipe with what you added to your chocolate. You can even draw a picture of what your Rocky Road looks like.

THE GINGERBREAD MAN

Why do you think The Gingerbread Man decided to run away?

What would the story of The Gingerbread Man be like if he stayed?

What would your Gingerbread Man story be like?

Watch the video opposite about the story of

The Gingerbread Man.

Gingerbread Biscuits

COMMUNITY

where does our food come from?

Do you know where your fruits and vegetables come from? Does it just appear in your lunchbox? How does it all grow? Where do you think your food comes from?

Do you have a garden at home? If so, what fruits and vegetables do you grow? What is your favourite fruit or vegetable?

Watch the video opposite to learn where our fruits and vegetables come from? Is this what you thought? Once fruits and vegetables are grown where do they go so we can buy them?

Have a think about your favourite fruits and vegetables that you have at home. What community shop did you get them from?

There are so many different sorts that are in season. Maybe you can see the colours of the rainbow on your plate.

This is a good tip to add the colours of the rainbow to your lunchbox everyday. The more colours you eat everyday, the healthier you will be.

Opposite is an activity that you can do to see all the different types of fruits and vegetables you eat every day. Which fruits and vegetables are your favourite?

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

WATCH THE VIDEO below TO SEE WHY EATING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES is AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR EVERYDAY DIET. Is this what you thought?

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE 7000 DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF APPLES AROUND THE WORLD

what can we do with fruit?

Fruit is filled with lots of vitamins that are healthy for our bodies to grow and build our immunity. There are many fun things you can do with your fruit. You can make a fruit salad, a smoothie, fruit kebab or even a fruit pizza. You can add fruit to your cake mix to make muffins or make an apple or banana cake. Remember to eat all the colours of the rainbow to build immunity and stay as healthy as you can. Below are some recipes using fruit that you can make together, whilst you are home. Have fun and Keep Cooking.

BANANA POPS

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW ON HOW TO MAKE BANANA POPS

CHOC BANANA POPS.mp4

vegetables

minestrone soup

Watch the video below to see how I make my minestrone soup. It is full of yummy veggies and a great meal to make for those cold nights.

MINESTRONE SOUP

change

CHANGE

Change in the kitchen is when one thing is turned into something else. Think of it like a fresh tomato changing to a tomato pasta sauce or mixing sugar and flour with some other ingredients and it changing into a cake. This then becomes a yummy meal or chocolate cake for dessert, that you can share with your family.

We are going to have some fun exploring how things really do change in the kitchen. Please make sure that when you cook in the kitchen, you have an adult with you, to help you when you are cooking.

A really fun activity to see how things change in the kitchen is to follow the ALPHABET GRISSINI recipe below. Combining flour and water is a huge CHANGE experiment in the kitchen. Once flour and water is combined it turns into a squishy dough. You can shape the letter of your first name with THE ALPHABET GRISSINI RECIPE. Have fun Preps.

ALPHABET GRISSINI