Hands On Food

24/07/2020

We challenged ourselves in our food tech and nutrition class this week. We created a "cheesy" sauce without cheese! By experimenting with different flavours, textures and dairy-free milk alternatives, we made our plant-based sauce using macadamia nuts, cashew nuts, tofu, soy milk, potato water and natural seasonings and herbs. Then we layered cooked potatoes, and red onion with the sauce and baked the potato gratin.
One group prepared crisp green salad using organic carrots, red cabbage and freshly picked lettuce from our organic student farm at Tu Toa. :)
It was a simple and yet satisfying meal for lunch. Ka pai Tai Wānanga TŪ TOA

30/06/2020

Holiday workshop coming up!

If you are between 11 - 14 years old... If you want to find out more about the skeleton... If you find the human body interesting... Wednesday, the 8th July, 9am – 3pm there's a workshop for you!

Make a dairy-free bone strengthening smoothie!
Make a yummy plant-based lunch that your bones will love!
How are bones structured? What are they for?
What makes bones strong?
Can the way you stand make you smarter?
How can you tell if a bone is broken?
What are the major bones of your skeleton?
Can a bone bend? Can it be tied in a knot?
What robs the skeleton of its minerals?
Make a simple model of a spine.

Bookings by Friday 3rd July
Cost: $45 per person (includes smoothie and lunch)
Wholegrain Organics
134 the Square
Palmerston North

[email protected]
06 3285917

29/06/2020

Darren from Awatapu College learning vegetable cuts based on French cuisine.

18/06/2020

Come and visit us @ Feilding Farmers Market today!

12/06/2020

Our students at the Friday Feilding Farmers Market!

11/06/2020

Every Wednesday MANUKURA Y9 students contribute to the school lunch. So far they have produced lentil bolognaise and creamy vegetable soup, using plenty of veges such as kumara, celery, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, and peas, as well as the herbs like parsley, basil and sage. School staff and students comprise the stakeholders who test the meals and give feedback on the plant-based option prepared by the food technology class every week.

Here is a link to the creamy vegetable soup recipe for those who would like to make it for their whānau at home:
https://live2give.nz/2015/04/29/creamy-vegetable-soup/

09/06/2020

MANUKURA Food Technology students smashing the "impossible burger" challenge today - a burger that looks like a burger, tastes like a burger, made entirely from plants 🙂 They ate them so fast - I think they couldn't quite believe it (even though they had made them.)

It's also cheaper, healthier and has a much lower carbon footprint 🙂
Nut free, soy free, wheat free and delicious 🙂

We were inspired by this video clip https://youtu.be/l75ixsh-wjI

Here is our typed up version of the recipe we made today https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jT-_JL6KAhRyGp5aloYsfr0GTAvFZPF6XyHmj6IM03Y/edit?usp=sharing

09/06/2020

08/06/2020

In our last 2 sessions Tai Wānanga TŪ TOA students learnt about which foods are fibre rich...

In our last 2 sessions Tai Whananga Tu Toa students learnt about which foods are fibre rich – foods that provide roughage or bulk found in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes. Fibre …