The Grange Park Kitchen

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Base 1 have recreated the ‘Queen’s Pudding’ competition wining recipe to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee.
Here is the recipe!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lemon_swiss_roll_and_42467

Completely FREE. Take as many as you like.
Freeze them , make pitta pizza, make sandwiches, share them with friends and neighbours. PLEASE we don't want them to go to landfill 🌏❤️

As many bananas as you like for just 50p.
Tell schools, playgroups and friends.
Take them by the box if you like 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Go and get some pitta breads…they’re free!
Reception will be using them to make some yummy pizzas tomorrow 🍕

If you fancy making a “Crema Catalana”, here is an easy to follow recipe by Ainsley Harriott! 🍮

Last half term the Nursery children had a wonderful visit from a lady called Sharon who works at our local Asda store.
Sharon had brought in some ingredients, all donated from Asda to make crumpet Pizzas with the children .
Both Sharon and the children really enjoyed this experience and especially enjoyed eating them.
At the end of the cooking activity Sharon presented the children with a fantastic play shop.
We can’t wait for her to come back soon!

Enjoy this simple recipe that you can make at home! 🎃

Cooking can help young children learn and practice some basic math concepts, build language skills and develop fine motor skills. The experience of creating meals with you can help build their self-confidence and lay the foundation for healthy eating habits. ⭐️

Calling all tomato lovers 🍅

We are going to be creating some delicious, simple recipes soon, all tomato based. This means that we are going to need a lot!

If anybody has any surplus homegrown tomatoes, we would really appreciate any donations! These can be dropped in at the office or Miss Cartmail’s room. Thank you in advance!

The Base 1 children harvested potatoes from the school allotment and learnt how to peel boil and mash them. They created a delicious cheese and potato pie! We have attached a simple recipe if you would like to try it at home 😊

The children in Base 1 enjoyed making cheesecake to share with their families.
We have added the recipe to this post!

The end of our bake off week saw Reception travelling to Finland 🇫🇮 to make ‘Tiikerikkakku’, Tiger Cake for Year 2.
The recipe is easy to follow and we can confirm it tastes amazing!
https://www.thespruceeats.com/finnish-tiger-cake-recipe-tiikerikkakku-2952685

The Nursery children having been busy making traditional Chinese egg cakes for Year 3 and GP’s answer to Paul Hollywood…Mr Thorpe tried one too🇨🇳

Greetings from the Middle East!
Base 1 have enjoyed baking a traditional “Basbousa cake” today which translates as a semolina cake. They have made this for the teachers at Grange Park to enjoy in the staffroom!
This recipe was inspired by Turkey 🇹🇷 and here is the recipe-
https://www.tastingtable.com/cook/recipes/semolina-cake-recipe-basbousa

Bonjour from Year 2!🇫🇷
They have been busy making a French Apple cake for the lucky Year 4 children. Even the teachers enjoyed a slice!🍏🧁
Here is the recipe we followed (minus the rum!) - https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/french-apple-cake.html

Lots of families at Grange Park speak Italian and so the second day of the GP Bake Off, we have ‘Focaccia’ aka the modern pizza! 🇮🇹
Year 3 have baked this for Reception and Base 1. They absolutely loved it, some compared it to Subway bread and they were all asking for seconds!
Here is the recipe they used if you’d like to give it a try-
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/focaccia

Hola!🇪🇸
Kicking off the Great GP Bake Off this week was Year 4. They made some beautiful Spanish Magdalenas (lemon cupcakes) for Year 1. We are especially impressed with their hand drawn flags!
Here is the recipe if you’d like to make some too-

https://www.thespruceeats.com/magdalenas-recipe-spanish-cupcakes-3083013

This year has been different to say the least and we wanted to find a way of bringing the children ‘together’… welcome to the Great GP Bake Off!

Throughout the week, the children will be participating in some whole school baking, cooking together, for each other.

Whilst enjoying a feeling of “togetherness” we wanted to also celebrate the different cultures at GP and so we are going to be baking something a little different using popular recipes from different counties around the world!

A huge thank you to Asda (town centre) for providing us with all of our ingredients for this huge baking celebration.

These sound yummy!

We have come across some wonderful, accessible recipes for you to try out at home. The first one is a "Chicken Tagine Traybake".
It sounds yummy!

What would you like to see us baking?🥣

A huge thank you to Sharon from Asda (town centre). Today, we were lucky enough to have collected over £270 worth of food and resources for children to use at school in our kitchen.

We have a feeling we’re going to be very busy cooking!

Wow, what an afternoon. Thank you to everybody who voted for ice cream, making it with 31 Reception children was an experience, but we lived to tell the tale and the ice cream was yummy!
The children learnt how to hold the knife correctly whilst using the other hand to hold the fruit. They concentrated brilliantly and did a great job.

The aftermath is also pictured although I’d hope yours are a lot less messier than ours!😜

It’s been great getting back into the swing of things today and we’re already excited about the different recipes we’ll be following this half term!
Please vote for your favourite from the list below:
• Jellyfish spaghetti
• 2 ingredient fruity ice cream (Mrs Millington’s favourite!)
• Frozen bark

Happy voting!🍴

Thank-you for so many votes this week, it was a close one but the cinnamon bunnies won!🐰

Reception did a fantastic job following instructions. They practised different techniques such as: sprinkling, rolling and folding. What we love the most is that each bunny is completely different from the other, but they still taste yummy!