Pizza and Cocktails

Last week we went on an educational visit to Frankie and Benny's.

 The children started by decorating hats.

 Decorating pizzas next,

loads of toppings to choose from.

 Reuben layering the cheese rather too thickly!

 While the pizzas cooked, the children took to the bar and made cocktails, 

and the mums got served cappuccino and biscuits. 

 Pizza and cocktail!

A  great educational workshop and a relaxing time for 

mums to catch up over coffee too.

Home made crunchie honeycomb

Today we made crunchie!

 In a pan, heat 4 tablespoons of golden syrup with 200g of sugar. We heated it very slowly to avoid burning. Bring to the boil and then simmer until the sugar has dissolved.

 To test if the honeycomb is ready, dip a small amount in cold water, 

if it sets solid, it's ready.

 

 The fun bit - add 3 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda

The mixture fizzes and this is how the honeycomb gets it's bubbles.

This gave us an opportunity to recap acids and alkalis.

Place the mixture in a tin lined with greaseproof paper.

Leave to set.

Break into pieces.

 We decorated the honeycomb with dark chocolate

Delicious!
'Can we make Kit Kat next week?' asks Reuben.
Watch out for more Home Sweet Holmes confectionery

Meatballs

This week meal from Ministry of food.
Jemima is really enjoying the course, especially learning to cook with meat. I love her description, when making meatballs, "the egg ran through my fingers like an erupting volcano".

Pasta with bacon and pea sauce.

The girls cooked a pasta dish this week at the ministry of food. Not our favourite dish, but still tasty.

mmm it's Tuesday

This week the girls made a wonderfully tasty stir fry. I made pineapple rice to go with it, the girls were really interested in the ingredients they guessed some like garlic and coriander. But were rather put out that I'd not used fresh coriander!!!

Chicken Tikka Masala

mmm, I love Tuesdays

Ministry of food

mmm garlic chicken and salsa made by Imogen and Mima

Jamie Oliver's Ministry Of Food

The girls have started a ten week cooking course at the ministry of food centre in Rotherham, this was set up by Jamie Oliver last year. It's an adult course the first week they cooked eggs in various ways, the sexcond week was soups. I'm amazed by the cooking tips the girls pass on to me -'Don't put the basil until the end', 'when making tomato soup, put in the spiders (stalk), all the vitamins are in the spiders'.

New flour

mmm tasty bread.

cooking and maths

The girls wanted to bake with Reuben, so they got a basic cupcake recipe off the internet and tripled the quantities, so the timetables must be going in !!!!
They decorated the cupcakes and cake with different flavoured icings.

Flapjacks

Jemima made flapjacks, she was fascinated by the brown sugar mixing with the melted butter, and the different layers created in the pan.

Pancake Day

...Of course pancakes were made by Imogen and Jemima.

Making Smoothies

Miss Independent

Both the girls have become very independent, Imogen's speciality is omelette. Immy and Mima often make simple lunches and put together packed lunches.

The maths of cooking chicken curry

 

Just think about all the maths involved in cooking... weighing, ratios, timing.