Pizza Making

It’s so much fun making a pizza!

You will need: 2 tablespoons tomato puree or pasta sauce, a few fresh mushrooms, sliced, 1/2 slice ham, chopped, 1/2 ball mozzarella cheese, sliced, 1 pitted black olive, halved, 1/2 cherry tomato1, other children’s choices

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C / Gas 6.
2. Spread the pizza dough into the shape you desire.
3. Spread the tomato puree evenly over the base.
4. Scatter the mushrooms and ham,
5. Put mozzarella cheese over the pizza.
6. For an idea you, make a face using the olive halves for eyes, the cherry tomato for a nose and other children’s choices for a smile.  ( But encourage your children to be create and decorate it the way that that they like best.
7. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown at the edges, about 10 minutes.

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** Also remember of the cooking recipe book in a PDF format of the cooking ideas padlet post!

Berry Tasty Muffins 

You will need:  flour, 1 c. oatmeal, 3 tbsp. sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 4 tsp. baking powder, 1 c. blueberries, washed, 1 egg, 1 c. milk, 1/4 c. vegetable oil, nonstick cooking spray

Equipment and supplies:

• oven (you’ll need help from your adult assistant)
• mixing spoon
• 2 large bowls
• fork
• 12 muffin/cupcake tin
• paper muffin/cupcake liners
• wire rack for cooling muffins
• measuring cups and spoons

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
2. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, oatmeal, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
3. Mix in blueberries.
4. In another bowl, break the egg and use a fork to beat it just a little bit. Then add the milk and vegetable oil, and mix.
5. Add egg mixture to the dry ingredients in the large bowl.
6. Using a mixing spoon, mix about 25 or 30 times. Don’t mix too much! Your muffin mixture should be lumpy, not smooth.
7. Line a muffin tin with paper liners or lightly spray with nonstick spray. Spoon in the muffin mix. Fill each muffin cup about 2/3 of the way up.
8. Bake for about 20 minutes.
9. When muffins are finished baking, remove from muffin tin and cool them on a wire rack.
10. Enjoy your berry tasty muffins!

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– Here are Some ideas of Happy Sandwiches for Happy Children! – 

** Remember that there are a also a recipe book in a PDF format in one of the Padlet post.

Hope you like some of these!

Yo ho ho! – Funky lunch!

You will need: bread (chose form white or brown) sandwich filling, bread sticks, ham, cucumber, cheese. 

                 'set sail on the high seas

                  me hearty, with this edible

                 pirate adventure'  

1. Assemble your sandwich using slices two slices of bread and your favourite filling.
2. Cut the shape of ship’s hull from sandwich.
3. Take an apple corer and carefully make three portholes in the side of the ships’s  hull, removing just the top layer of bread.
4. Place the sandwich on a plate and use the bread sticks to form a mast and use a slice of ham for the sail.
5. Finish your sandwich with a skull-and-cross bones flag made from cucumber and cheese and then set it to sail on a sea of cucumber slices.

** A sea of lettuce leaves makes a great alternative to cucumber

**Instead of ham sail use a slice of cheese for a meat-free alternative.

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