Lemonade and Rice Paper Rolls!

Here are the recipes we made on Friday for our class party.

 

Fresh Lemonade

Ingredients

• 4 cups fresh lemon juice (about 24 lemons)
• 7 cups soda water
• 1 cup sugar
• Ice, for serving
• Chopped mint

Preparation

·      Pour the lemon juice into a large container.

·      Add the sugar, then stir until it all dissolves.

·      Add chopped mint

·      Now add the water (or soda water).

·      Just before you are read to serve, add some ice to keep it cool.

·      Stir well then pour into cups and drink it up!

 

Rice paper rolls

Ingredients:

Common mint

Vietnamese mint

Tofu

Rice noodles

Rice paper

Carrot

Cucumber

Sprouts

Method:

·      Chop your tofu into long thin finger-sized slices.

·      Put them in a bowl and pour over a dash of soy sauce and a dash of lemon juice. Sit them aside to marinate.

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·      Chop your cucumber and carrot into skinny slices.

·      Pull the leaves off your mint and discard the stalks.

·      Wash lettuce and mint.

·      Arrange your ingredients on a plate with the noodles so you are ready to make your rolls.

 

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·      Fill a large bowl with warm water.

·      Dip a sheet of rice paper into the water for about 10 seconds, just until it starts to soften (if you leave it in too long it becomes very tricky to handle).

·      Put your sheet onto a chopping board so it is flat.

·      Put a small amount of noodles onto one end of your rice paper. Add one stick each of tofu, cucumber, carrot and couple of leaves of either type of mint.

·      Fold in the sides and roll it up tight!

·      Put it onto your platter and start again!

Super-duper Dipping Sauce

1 tablespoons of lemon juice

1 clove of crushed garlic

3 tablespoons of soy sauce

1 teaspoon of fish sauce

1 teaspoon of lilly-pilly jelly (or sweet chilli sauce)

·      Chop your garlic as finely as you can.

·      In a small bowl mix fish sauce, water, lemon juice, crushed garlic and a teaspoon of lilly pilly jelly.

·      Stir it well. Taste it to check that it tastes salty, spicy, sour and a little bit sweet.

·      If not, add more lemon juice (sour), garlic (spicy), soy sauce (salty) or jelly (sweet), until it is just right.

1/2B's Grand Planting Day!

On Friday, 1/2B planted the results of the sunflower seed sale. Using the money we raised earlier in the year, we bought two trees (a lilly pilly and a lemon, we voted) to plant in the school orchard. We had a big celebration!

In the morning we made rice paper rolls (using our own class grown sprouts, see pictures) and making home-made lemonade. The rice paper rolls had tofu in them, we thought the tofu was soft and yummy! 

Before recess we also prepared everything for the Grand Planting Ceremony. We worked in teams to get everything done. Everyone worked together. It was a morning of careful hands, careful procedure and good co-operation.

Before the planting Lauren (our teacher) said,  
“I am tired but I think it will be good."

The preps, the other 1/2s and our principal, Ms Pearce were invited to help us plant our trees. After recess we went to the orchard, planted the new trees and served lemonade to everyone. Here are some of the preps’ and 1/2s’ opinions about the lemonade.

"Great but a bit sour."

"Fizzy."

"Weird."

"Unusual."

"Sweet."

"Delicious."

"Bubbly."

"Different."

"Cooling!"

Amy said “Sweet and fizzy in my mouth.”

Lola said “Good.”

Romy thought it was, “Very, very sour lemonade.”

Maddy told us “It tasted like lemon juice.”

Alex decided it was “Fizzy and yummy.”

Matilda agreed it was “Sour.”

Hamza thought it was “Fizzy!”

Jill said it was “Cold.”

After the grand planting ceremony we went back to our class for the class party! It was super exciting!  The table setting team had set the table, put out all the food and even picked flowers and put them in vases. It looked beautiful! We all took our places and had a feast! The rice paper rolls were so delicious and the dipping sauce was sensational!

Here are some of the things that our class friends said about our party:

“I felt really happy and I really liked them.”

“It was really fun and easy.”

“I loved it but I had to do work.”

“I liked all of it.”

“It was really super fun.”

“I liked making the dip because it got my hands sticky.”

“Yummy!”

“THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!” 

Those are the questions that Lucy, Evie and Sunita asked the crowd!

Bye.

(This blog post was compiled by the reporting team, Lucy, Sunita and Evie, with a bit of help from Lauren)