PIZZAS!

This week we made muffin-based pizzas. They were delicious. This is how you do it:

1. Get a breakfast muffin and cut in in half.

2. Spread the base with tomato puree.

3. Cover the muffin with your topping - we used mushrooms, sweetcorn, red peppers and olives.

4. Cover the toppings with grated cheese.

5. Grill for 5 minutes until the cheese melts.

If you like, you can use any pizza topping on the pizzas - here are a few suggestions:

ham, chicken, cherry tomato, mushroom, sweetcorn, olives, or if you like, you can just have cheese and tomato.

Enjoy!!!

Making Sandwiches

This week we made lots of different sandwiches. This gave us lots of different ideas of things that we could put into our lunch boxes. We made egg and cress, cheese and carrot and tuna and sweetcorn. We used lots of different breads too, like pitta bread, wraps and rolls. Here is how to make each filling:

Egg and cress
Cook eggs until hard and then mash in a container.
Add mayonaise to the eggs.
Put into your roll/ wrap/ pitta and then add the cress.

Tuna and sweetcorn
Take a can of tuna and put into a bowl.
Add some caned sweetcorn.
Add some mayonaise and mix together.
Put into your roll/ wrap or pitta.

Cheese and carrot
Grate some cheese into a bowl.
Peel a carrot and grate it into the bowl.
Put the mixture into your roll/ wrap/ pitta bread.

Which was your favourite roll? Do you think that you would be able to put some of these fillings into your lunch box? Can you think of any other exciting fillings that you could put into your sandwich/ roll? Which was your favourite type of bread?

Bangladeshi Bread

This week we made Bangladeshi Bread. It was delicious.

Here are our photos:

VALENTINE TREATS!!

As it was Valentines day this week, we decided to make some valentine treats. We made orange shortbread, although you can make these cookies into any shape to suit the time of year.

Here is the basic recipe:

1. Turn the oven onto 190C or Gas Mark 5.

2. Beat together 115g butter and 50g caster sugar until soft and creamy.

3. Add the rind of 2 oranges.

4. Gradually add 175g plain flour and form a soft dough.

5. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 1cm thick. Cut out the cookies using a cutter.

6. Place cookies onto a baking sheet and then cook for about 20 minutes in the oven.

These cookies can be enjoyed at home, or can be placed in the lunchboix as a yummy treat.

Chocolate Crispy Cakes

This week we made a sweet treat - Chocolate Crispy cakes. These are a really nice treat to put in lunchboxes, and are so easy to make.
1. Melt some chocolate, either in the microwave or in a bowl resting in a saucepan of boiling water.
2. Add rice krispies to the melted chocolate. Not too many though, as they will not be very chocolatey otherwise.
3. We then added some raisins.
4. Scoop the mixture into small cake cases.
5. Leave to set for 5 minutes, and then enjoy.

Remember, these cakes are delicious, and its ok to enjoy them as a treat, but we should not eat them every day. Why not make some and swap your usual chocolate biscuit in your lunchbox for a delicious crispy cake.

SWEET POTATO BUNS

This week we made sweet potato buns. They were really popular with the children - I bet they'd be a great thing to make at home.

Here is how to do it...

You need

250g sweet potato

250g self raising flour

25g sugar

25g sultanas

50ml milk

Pinch salt

50g margarine

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

How to do it:

1. Peel and boil potato until soft. Drain and mash.

2. Melt butter slowly on a low heat.

3. Switch the oven on Gas Mark 7 0r 200C

4. Mix together the butter, potato and milk

5. Add sugar, sultanas, flour, cinnamon and salt

6. Knead slightly to form a soft dough

7. Roll out to about 6mm thick

8. Cut shapes with a cutter and place on a greased baking tray

9. Place in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes, until golden brown

10. Place on a wire rack to cool and then enjoy.

Did you like eating the sweet potato buns?

VEGETABLE SOUP

This week we have been making vegetable soup. It is a really easy way to make a warming lunch or dinner. We put carrots, red onion, leek, tomatoes and courgettes in our soup. This is what we did.

1. Get a large pan of boiling water and crumble 2 vegetable stock cubes in it. Leave it on the cooker.

2. Wash all of the vegetables.

3. Cut up the carrot and put it into the boiling water.

4. Cut up the red onion and put it into the pan.

5. Cut up the leek and put it into the pan.

6. Cut up the courgette and put it into the pan.

7. Squeeze some tomato puree into the soup (1 tablespoon)

8. Cook for about 15 mintures, until all of the vegetables are soft.

Did you enjoy then soup? Did your parents try the soup, and if so, what did they think of it.

Has anyone made their own soup at home with different vegetables?