Japanese Cooking: Bento Boxes

 On Thursday, we spent the afternoon creating some delicious Japanese cuisine! We learned about the trend for kyaraben (cartoon bento boxes) and oekakiben (picture bento boxes) in Japan. As it isn't always easy to persuade children to eat healthy food, many Japanese parents have started to create tasty artwork for their children's lunches!

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We loved looking at these pictures, but it was much more fun to design and make our own cartoon or picture bento boxes! Using lots of healthy ingredients, we created these fabulous designs:

Did your bento box taste as good as it looked?!

Delicious Cooking

This week, St. George's cooked some delicious banana and plantain, with Mrs Herrera, Mrs Cook and Miss Robertson. Everyone enjoyed cooking and tasting the scrumptious food- all of the children have been talking about plantain this week!

Pedal Power!

Today we had a wonderful time, making smoothies with Tim from Sustrans. He has visited us before to talk about the benefits of cycling, especially to and from school. Today, however, he brought a particularly exciting bike with him!

Tim asked each group to follow a recipe of 3 bananas, 4 strawberries, 2 spoonfuls of blueberries and some apple juice for the smoothie. We each took a turn to add the ingredients for our smoothies to a blender jug, which was then attached to the back of Tim's smoothie bike. Each child in the class then had a turn at pedalling on the special bike, to power the blender. We used pedal power to make our own smoothies and everyone agreed that they were delicious!

Cafe Marvellous, Part Two!

Well done to everyone in St. George's Class- today was another brilliant day at Cafe Marvellous! We had lots of special guests, including some of your parents and Mary from the Bread of Life Cafe. Thank you to everyone who has visited the cafe this week- we are very grateful!

Here are some photos from our cafe experience- showing the cooking, the decorations and the finished products on sale.

Very well done everybody! You've all worked so hard this half term; have a lovely rest next week!

Some of the beautiful cafe-themed artwork on show.

Hard at work, preparing the cafe before our guests arrive.

The tables were set with cutlery, napkins, table cloths, menus, flowers and candles.

 

The very popular marshmallow lollies- these were first to sell out!

 Spooky iced Halloween biscuits.

 Orange 'pumpkins' filled with fruit salad!

 Tasty fruit kebabs made up our pumpkin's spiky hair!

 Tasty French fruit tart.

 

 Beautifully baked and decorated fairy cakes.

Rolling the Japanese vegetable sushi rolls.

 Preparing the sushi.

Chopping the vegetables for the Russian Vegetable Soup.

 Italian pizzas, ready to go in the oven.

 Delicious French Fruit Tarts.

 Making the pasta salad.

 Pink iced fairy cakes, especially for 'Wear It Pink' day for Breast Cancer Awareness at school today.

Icing the spooky Halloween biscuits.

 Baking the fairy cakes.

Decorating our chef hats- we had to look the part!