Kitchen Garden Program
Aspendale Garden’s curriculum ensures our students acquire skills that will serve them now and for years to come. Years 3 and 4 students participate in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen and Garden Program. Our chef and a qualified garden specialist provide an outstanding cooking and gardening program and our students love it!
The students spend time in the garden planting, maintaining and harvesting the fruits of their labour, and spend time in the kitchen cooking cuisines from countries around the world whilst gaining insight into different cultures. Table etiquette, developing their pallet and honing their dining conversational skills are also part of this brilliant program.
Menus are based on the seasonal vegetables grown in our organic garden. Students from all year levels enjoy, and are encouraged to help or just spend time in our huge vegetable garden during lunch time. Feeding and caring for the chooks is a favourite for many of the students.
Our garden has recently been enhanced by the addition of a breeding aviary for endangered Australian birds which is a huge hit with the students.
2020 Term 2 Recipes from the Kitchen - remote learning
2020 Term 1 Recipes from the Kitchen
Apple & Rhubarb Empanadas Creamy Potato Leek Soup Cucumber, Carrot & Radish Salad
Herb & Garlic Bread Hot Cross Buns Orange & Olive Salad Pickled Vegetable Salad Sesame Cookies Spanish Potato Tortilla Spring Onion Pancake Vegetable Fried Noodles Vegetable Paella
2019 Term 4 Recipes from the Kitchen
Apricot & Coconut Slice Apricot Yogurt Cake Broad Bean Salad Cauliflower Cheese Pastry Cauliflower, Feta & Dill Fritters Creamy Mustard Vegetable Pot Pie Creamy Pesto Pasta
Lettuce and Carrot Salad Potato, Kale & Lentil Salad Semolina Cake Silverbeet, Kale & Corn Risotto Silverbeet, Kale & Feta Pide Turkish Bean Salad Vegetable Nuggets Zucchini Tartlets
2019 Term 3 Recipes from the Kitchen