Category Archives: Kitchen
A Pizza to Remember
This week, 8th graders are marking the close of their Edible Schoolyard experience with unforgettable pizzas made from scratch and cooked in the wood-fired oven. The garden is filled with the mouthwatering fragrance of pesto, caramelized onions, aromatic herbs, and garlic. Some students shared that they have been waiting for this moment since the 6th [...]
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A Simple Pasta Dough
We now have 7th graders in the kitchen for a six-lesson rotation that focuses on life skills, a wonderful idea 7th grade humanities chair Julie Searle asked us to develop. Their first week back, the students learned to make a miso dressing and served it with a crudité platter. This week, they made fresh pasta [...]
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The Central Kingdom
This week, the 6th graders learned a traditional Chinese cooking method, stir-frying, using a traditional Chinese cooking pot, the wok. On the blackboard, we wrote the Chinese characters for the name China, which is transliterated as zhong guo and translates into “central kingdom.” The first character, zhong, perfectly depicts its meaning with a vertical line [...]
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Vegetable Curry
The 6th grade humanities classes have returned to the kitchen for their spring rotation, which journeys through four great civilizations: India, China, Greece, and Rome. For their first lesson back, the students listened to Indian music and learned to make a vegetable curry. Many were surprised to hear that curry is actually a mix of [...]
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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
On rare occasions, our class schedule allows us to see the same group of students on two consecutive days. This was the case this week with Ms. Rathwell’s ELL core – a mixed class of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who are learning English as a second, third, or sixth language! On Wednesday, each table [...]
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Maki Sushi
This week, the seventh graders continued to hone their kitchen skills by paring, peeling, slicing, and chopping various garden vegetables to create our version of maki sushi. We prepared garden radishes, daikon sprouts, carrots, sushi rice, avocado, and tamago (a traditional Japanese egg dish cooked on the griddle). These ingredients were put in bowls in [...]
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A Trip to Spain
Though it was hard for all of us to come back on Monday from a relaxing, two-week winter break, we had a new grade level waiting for us in the kitchen upon our return. 7th graders bring a different kind of energy to the classroom, and Esther and I can only marvel at how many [...]
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A Special Breakfast
This week, the 6th graders entered the kitchen to find at their tables a mysterious looking grinder and ten little bowls, each labeled with the name of a whole grain or seed. Their task for the class: to grind, cook, and savor their own hot, multi-grain cereal. The grains we use vary from class to [...]
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Knife Skills
In their second class after the kitchen orientation, the sixth graders baked pan de muertos in honor of Dia de los Muertos. The sweet, brown sugar-encrusted rolls were formed into the shape of each student’s choice, to commemorate someone who has passed on. By far one of my favorites was a mini-loaf in the form [...]
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Pretzel Party