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Cinnamon Apple and Caramel Custard.

Cinnamon Apple and Caramel Custard

I have supplied the recipe for the delicious dessert that we made last week at technology.  I really enjoyed the creamy custard and the soft apples.    



1 apple peeled, quartered and then each quarter chopped into four chunks.
2 pinches of cinnamon
1 Tablespoon of brown sugar.

Mix all of these ingredients in a bowl until the apple is coated with sugar and cinnamon.  Place onto a baking papered tray and put into the oven at 180 degrees fan grill until apple browns.

2 Tablespoon custard powder
2 Tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 Cup milk

Place these ingredients into a pan,  mix until powder and sugar has dissolved.  Add another 1 Cup of milk to pan,  place on a medium heat on top of stove,  stirring constantly until the custard thickens.

Hanmer Springs Class Camp 2019

On Monday we traveled as a class to Hanmer Springs for camp.   We stayed at the Forest Camp in bunk rooms for two nights.

My favourite activity on camp was the two times that we went to the Thermal Pools.   I spent most of my time on the Big Bowl hydro slide.

Another activity that I enjoyed doing was the tree climbing. 

I didn't like the walk up Conical Hill,  as it was a lot of uphill walking.   The view from the top was beautiful though.

Another fun activity was orienteering, where we had to find triangles with letters and numbers which each had different points,   the team with the most points won.    The forest was very pretty

On the last day we went on another walk.  This time it was Forest Sculpture walk,   and there was some amazing wooden sculptures.

Mexican Toasties

This week in cooking we made Mexican Toasties.   We used wholemeal wraps,  and filled them with grated cheese, ham, red onion and tomato relish.   I really liked them because the cheese melted and stretched when you bit into them and the spiciness of the tomato relish.

We placed our ingredients on half of the wrap and then slid them into a buttered hot fry pan.   When  the cheese started to melt, we folded the unfilled half over the top of the other side.

Dips and Chips

This week in cooking we made Tomato and Corn salsa,  and good old Kiwi Dip.  My Favourite was the tomato salsa because it had everything i like in it.  Everyone in the group got one of the ingredients to chop up and Kama measured the spices.

Our Salsa looked like this

Tomato Corn Salsa recipe

4 tomatoes chopped roughly
1 can of corn kernals drained
1 avacado chopped
1 red onion diced
2 capsicums roughly chopped
juice of one lemon
1 t of chipole chilli powder
1 t of smoked paprika
salt and pepper to taste

Everything goes into a bowl and mix together.   Serve with corn chips,  pita bread cut up, brushed with oil and baked in oven until crisp. or on top of nachos.

sticky chicken lettuce wraps

On Monday our cooking group made Sticky Chicken Lettuce Wraps.   They were really, really yummy and i managed to eat four lettuce wraps. 

 This is Blade and Joseph cooking the chicken for the wraps.  We used a Honey Soy sauce.

Lochie and Kama are sitting waiting for the chicken to finish cooking,  you can see what other ingredients we used.    The chicken was wrapped in Lettuce,  with cucumber, carrot and capsicum.

We thought that you could use any sliced meats in this recipe,  and you could use onion, pineapple, corn kernals, cheese.   Any sauce or dressing could be used too.

Here is our recipe, that fed 7 hungry kids for lunch

2 chicken breasts sliced 

2 capsicums sliced

2 carrots grated

1 cucumber cut in quarters and then sliced.

1 lettuce,  pulled apart so leaves are whole

1 pouch of honey soy cooking sauce.

a little oil for fry pan.

Heat fry pan, with a little oil.     Add chicken and cook until chicken is browned and cooked through.  Add the sauce to pan and stir until the sauce has become sticky around the chicken.

Serve all the ingredients separate in the middle of the table in dishes. Each person then picks up a lettuce leaf and then adds some of each of the other ingredients into the middle,  fold sides of lettuce in and the wrap over like a parcel.   Enjoy.

Brunner Mine Visit

On Monday my class went to the Brunner Mine site for a visit.   We have been reading the book - A Mines Afire,  which tells a boy Tommy story of when the mine exploded.

The photo shows Staci, Angelina and me, dressed up in clothes like they would have worn,  and we pretended to be running across the bridge towards the mine.  This was my favourite part of the day,  the baby doll was very very strange as it had teeth.