Food Glorious Food

Food from other countries

Year 8 pupils are  developing their cookery skills and are preparing meals from other countries.They are making chilli con carne, lasagne, sweet and sour chicken and curries. These seem to be very successful and the pupils are using these basic recipes to create other alternative recipe ideas.

Rock Cakes

Today we made Rock Cakes as a one off lesson. They were brilliant.

biscuits

Year 6 pupils are making biscuits this year. They are developing their cooking skills by using the creaming method, rubbing in method and melting method of cake making. They have been comparing them to shop biscuits and have been learning how to adapt recipes to make alternatives ideas.

pasta in a creamy sauce.

     Here is Tom and Macauley with their excellent pasta dishes that they made in food technology. They made a delicious pasta in a creamy sauce with lots of lovely flavouring!!

yr 7 cooking

Don't they look pleased with their bread!!!!

Some of group 4 made ordinary bread and others put extra flavourings in it. I personally like sunflower seeds in mine and with wholemeal flour. What about you?

healthy drinks

Year 5, group 5 have been making smoothie drinks. They made four drinks with different flavours.

1.Apple juice, peach, pear and kiwi.

2.Orange juice, banana, melon and strawberries

3.Blueberry juice and Pineapple

4.Banana, milk and vanilla essence!

We had fun drinking them and here are some of our comments.Please post some of your thoughts too.

Pasta dishes

Ashley looks as if he's enjoying his Lasagne.

Lovely Lasagne dishes made by Year 8

Ben and Rai showing off their pasta dish.

Sausage Plait

Sausage Plait

150g plain flour.

35g lard.

35g margarine.

A little water

Sausage meat.

Chopped onion , mushrooms , peppers , garlic etc

Oven temp; gas 6 , 200 c , 400 f .

Rub the fat into the flour until you have fine breadcrumbs. “Slice” in enough cold water until you have a dough. Lightly roll out the pastry on a floured surface into a rectangle.

Place the sausage meat and other ingredients down the centre of the pastry.

Cut diagonal slices along the edges of the pastry and brush the edges with milk or water.

Carefully plait the pastry over the sausage meat . Glaze with milk or beaten egg.

Cook for 30 minutes and cool on a wire rack.

Sausage Plait

Sausage Plait

150g plain flour.

35g lard.

35g margarine.

A little water

Sausage meat.

Chopped onion , mushrooms , peppers , garlic etc

Oven temp; gas 6 , 200 c , 400 f .

Rub the fat into the flour until you have fine breadcrumbs. “Slice” in enough cold water until you have a dough. Lightly roll out the pastry on a floured surface into a rectangle.

Place the sausage meat and other ingredients down the centre of the pastry.

Cut diagonal slices along the edges of the pastry and brush the edges with milk or water.

Carefully plait the pastry over the sausage meat . Glaze with milk or beaten egg.

Cook for 30 minutes and cool on a wire rack.