For this activity we wanted the children to gain some confidence in the kitchen, a skill for missions, family and life in general.
I sent out an email to all of the parents asking them to send me their childs favourite recipes to make or eat. I took the recipes and some easy extras of my own and made up a simple cook book. The plan, to choose several of the recipes for the kids to make on Activity night, and to have each child decorate their own copy of the book to take home and use.
The Plan for the night was to group the children into 3 groups. Each group would be responsible for making 2 recipes from the book so that at the end of the night we would have 6 dishes to sample. While the foods bake, the kids cleaned up the mess and then went out to colour and personalize their books. When the food was ready we could all partake..... and each child was asked to bring a container so that they could take extra home for lunch the next day.
Preparation was the key for this activity: Because of space, time etc: I pre measured all the ingrediants an put them into zip lock bags and grouped all items for each recipe:
The kids did a fantastic job and were so proud of the results. The key too, Having simple recipes with only a few ingrediants: They all wanted to go home and try cooking for their families: AWESOME
Tace’s chicken nuggets,
Chicken, eggs, flour, bread crumbs, and
seasonings
Dip diced chicken into flour, then eggs and
cover in breadcrumbs and seasoning.
Cook in oven for about 30 mins on gas mark 6 or
200’C
Tace’s Poppy Seed Chicken
1 to 2 (or more if you have a bigger
family) pieces of chicken diced and cooked in a frying pan or however you want
to cook it.
Mix chicken with a pot of sour cream (125/150g
pot) and can of Campbell's condensed soup
Alternative is half sour cream and half
Philadelphia with the soup
Put in a shallow dish, cover with crunched up
ritz crackers, about a packet or as much as you like, sprinkle with poppy seeds
(if you have them...I never do) and pop in oven
About 30-40 mins or until heated through on gas
mark 3-4 ( abt 170’C)
Serve with mash potatoes or whatever you like.
Gabriel’s Bourekas (Puff pastry with Cream
cheese filling)
Ingrediants:
4-5 sheets of puff pastry, 250grams cream cheese, 1 egg, ½ c
flour, ½ teaspoon salt, sesame or poppy seeds for topping (optional),
extra egg.
Method:
Preheat oven to 190’C, In a mixing bowl, combine cream
cheese, 1 egg, flour and salt….mix till smooth.
Divided puff pastry
sheets into 9 squares, place a teaspoon of filling in each square, and
fold in half to form rectangle pastries. Pinch the edges together with fork to
seal the filling inside.
Brush pastries with egg and sprinkle with sesame or poppy
seeds and bake for 20-30 mins or until
golden.
Gabriel’s Russian Potato Salad
Ingrediants:
4 eggs, 4 medium sized potatoes, 1 can of peas and carrots
drained (or use fresh or frozen), 3-4 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon of
mustard, salt and pepper.
Method:
Place the eggs in a
small saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to
medium and boil for 7 minutes. Peel
eggs.
In another pot, Boil potatoes in a large saucepan and cover
with cold water. Bring to boil. Boil until tender, drain. Let stand until cool
enough to handle.
Peel potatoes and cut into small cubes.
In a large bowl put the potatoes and cut eggs, peas and
carrots, mayonnaise, and mustard and mix well.
Taste and add a little salt and pepper.
Baked Crispy Potato Fritters
2 large potatoes (Peeled), 50grams melted butter, ½ teaspoon
salt, pinch of pepper.
Boil Potatoes for exactly 10 minutes until just getting soft.
Drain and let them cool.
Turn oven to 180’c, Grate cooled potato and mix with melted
butter, salt and pepper. Spoon into a 12 hole muffin tray, cook for
30-35 minutes until crisp and golden (or you could cook them in frying pan) Carefully
tip out onto Paper towels and cool a bit.
Eat warm as they are or serve
with salsa or sauce.
Fritters can be – RE heated.
Breeana’s Marshmallow Ricebubble bars
100grams butter or Margirine, 1 packet (300grms)
Marshmallows, 4 cups of rices bubbles , ½ cup choc chips
Melt Marshmellows and butter in a large pan over a medium
heat until smooth.
Add rice bubbles and chocolate chips, Mix well.
Tip into a greased cake tin, wet your hands and press mixture
flat. Chill in the fridge and then cut
into squares.
Breeana’s Mac and Cheese
1 onion (chopped finely), 1 cup of grated cheese, 2 cups of
macaroni, ½ cup of milk, salt, pepper, 2 pinches of nutmeg, parley (optional),
bacon chopped (optional)
Cook Onion and Macaroni in a saucepan of water with a bit of
salt (follow packet instructions for pasta, should take about 10mins.
Drain off water, if you are using bacon, cook bacon in the
pan with a little butter, then place
Macaroni and onion back into saucepan,
Stir the cheese and milk though
the macaroni. Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
Stir in chopped parsley if using.
Grate some extra cheese on top to serve.
Hannah’s Spaghetti Bolognese
2 teaspoons oil, 1 onion chopped, 500grms of mince, 425gram
can of tomato pasta sauce, 400grms of spaghetti pasta, 1 clove of garlic, parsley, grated cheese.
ADD vegetables that you like, mushrooms, grated carrot, pumpkin etc.
Heat oil in the pan and add the onion and garlic and cook for
about 3 minutes. Add mince beef and cook, stirring until brown.
Add the tomato sauce, and leave to cook for about 10 minutes
on a medium heat. Add any chopped and grated vegetables that you want to use.
While the meat and sauce is simmering, cook the spaghetti in
a large saucepan of boiling water for 10mins, or until it is soft.
Drain the spaghetti in a colander and pile into serving
bowls. Top with the meat sauce and then
some grated cheese.
Aaleah’s Coconut Macaroons
Easy Coconut Macaroons
INGREDIENTS:
- 3 cups
shredded coconut
- 1 cup
sweetened condensed milk
- 1/8
teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2
teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2
teaspoon almond extract
PREPARATION:
Generously grease baking sheets.
Combine all ingredients; stir until well blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls, 1 inch
apart, on prepared baking sheets. Press down with the back of spoon to even
thickness. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes, or until macaroons are golden brown.
Cool 5 minutes; remove from baking sheet. Makes about 36 coconut macaroons.
Mini Pototo top pies.
Use Hannahs spaghetti Bolognese meat recipe (without pasta)
or leftover meat from any other dinner….then add…
4 large potatoes, peeled and chopped, 1/3 cup milk, 2 Tbls butter, 1 cup of grated
cheese, few sheets of puff pastry.
Cook the potatoes in a
large saucepan of boiling water for 8 minutes, or until they are soft. Drain the potatoes and them place them back
into pot. Add the milk, butter, half the
cheese, and mash with potato masher until smooth.
Grease muffin tins, then lay squares of pastry into the
trays. Spoon in meat, top with mashed
potato and then sprinkle with cheese.
Bake in 180”c oven for 20 minutes or until pastry in golden
brown.
Tasty chicken Wings
10 or more chicken wings, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 4
tablespoons of soy sauce, ¼ teaspoon finely grated ginger, 2 tablespoons honey,
1 tablespoon tomato sauce.
Mix lemon juice, soy sauce,
and ginger in a large flat baking dish. Add chicken wings turning each
till coated in sauce. Cover dish with
tin foil and put in fridge for a few hours to marinate. Drain the wings and
save the sauce. In a cup mix honey,
tomato sauce, and left over sauce mix.
Pour the sauce back over the wings, put into oven and back for about 20
minutes or until cooked. Serve hot or
cold .
2 ingredient Pancakes
2 small ripe banana’s, 3 eggs lightly beaten
Mash banana’s with a fork, whisk eggs and add to
bananas- Heat a pan to a medium
heat. Add spoonfuls of batter into pan,
cook till brown on one side then flip to cook other side.
Serve hot or cold with breakfast, lunch or for afternoon tea.
Baked Bean and Bacon Muffins (from food in a minute)
1 medium
onion, peeled and finely chopped, 3-4 rashers
bacon, diced, 3 cups self-raising
flour, 2 tsp dry mustard, 1/2 tsp
each salt and pepper,2-3 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley, 1 1/2 cups grated tasty cheese, 420g can Baked BeaNZ, 2 eggs, 1 1/4 cups milk, 100g butter, melted.
Method
1. Cook the onion and bacon in a dash of oil in a
frying pan until softened and cooked. Cool.
2. Sift the self-rising flour, mustard, salt and
pepper into a large bowl. Stir in the parsley and 1 cup of the grated cheese.
Make a well or hole in the centre.
3. Mix the onion mixture, Baked BeaNZ , eggs and milk together and pour into
the dry ingredients. Stir gently to mix, adding the melted butter as you stir.
Do not over-mix as the muffins will peak.
4. Divide the mixture evenly among 12 well-greased
muffin tins and sprinkle the tops with a little of the remaining grated cheese. 5. Bake at 220°C for 15 minutes until well
risen and golden. Cool in the tins for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a
cake rake. Serve warm. Note: You can
cook the onion and bacon in the microwave without the oil if wished. Place on a
plate and cover. Cook on high power for 2 minutes. Cool.
Delicious
Lemonade
Ingredients:
1/3 c lemon juice
The rind of one lemon, finely chopped,
use the finest part on your grater to do this
1/2 c sugar
4 glasses cold water
Method:
1. Mix the lemon juice, sugar and lemon
rind in a medium saucepan
2. Add cold water, then bring to the
boil over a medium heat. You can add a bit more lemon juice and sugar if needed
at this stage for taste
3. Stir the mixture, then turn off. Let
the mixture cool
4. Pour lemonade into a jug over ice
and enjoy!
Cheese Roll-ups
200g self-raising
flour, plus extra for dusting, 50g butter, softened, 1 tsp paprika, 100-125ml
milk, 1 cup grated cheese
Heat oven to 200 C. Put the flour and butter in a bowl and rub them
together with your fingers.. Now stir in the paprika and mix again.
Add 100ml milk and mix with a fork until you get a soft dough. Add a
splash more milk if the dough is dry. You can always add more milk if required.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough like pastry to about 0.5cm
thick. Try to keep a rectangular shape.
sprinkle the grated cheese on top, then roll up like a sausage along the
long side. Cut into 12 thick rings using a table knife.
Line the baking tray with
baking paper. Place the roll-ups on the tray, cut-side down, almost touching
each other, making sure that you can see the spiral. put them in the oven and
bake for 20-25 mins until golden and melty. then leave to cool. The cheese
roll-ups will keep for up to 3 days in an airtight container.
