Seriously delicious meal cooked at Old School Kitchen Kids cooking classes this week we used the recipe from Seafood Everyday to marinade the fish and then make the salad and dressing. Maggie has requested it for her birthday dinner it was so good! Honestly I would pay $35 or more for a serve in nice cafe!! And a big thanks to Tassal for supporting the classes providing the salmon for the kids and their families. A chance meeting with a friend who works at the Tasmanian Salmon Association in the isle of Officeworks right back when I was just at the putting the offer in on the house stage, yonks ago, chatting about my kids cooking class and adult basic cooking class ideas has led to Tassal donating the fish and supporting these classes. While I always have and will always buy salmon and other seafood for my workshops it’s not really in the budget for this $65 dollar a person class that includes a take home meal for 4 , unfortunately. I love teaching to cook but I have a business to operate my own family to feed. I do know very well from years of experience teaching workshops the best way to get someone to cook something again is to show them. I would be very surprised if the dishes we cook in the classes are not cooked at home again. I know a lot of people still don’t cook seafood as they think it’s too hard. My husband Brendan being a fisherman also provides some scale fish so we can have seafood on the menu at least a few times each term.

The kids this week had a good chance to work on the knife skills. Make a salad dressing. Marinade and bake the salmon.

This coming Monday we are going to make cabbage rolls and then Mango chicken the following week. Ideally, I would prefer term bookings so we can learn new things and move onto new things but because we are just starting out I will take casual bookings for those who want to try it out or have found out late about the classes. BOYS why are there no BOYS enrolled. OMG I hear horror stories about boys leaving home and wasting all their ENTIRE weeks apprentice pay on takeaway food, ordering a toasted sandwich by uber and stuff like that! The health of the family is not the sole responsibility of mum in the family, it is not the 1950s let’s teach the boys to eat well and organise the family meals too!

This coming Thursday we have a Tasmanian Cooking Experience workshop. Then a Bread baking the following Thursday. Then only 2 more workshops this term I will have Term 2 dates listed soon.

This week at our Old School Kitchen Kids cooking classes we made Fish Lasagne with the recipe from seafood Everyday. A lot of us want to eat more seafood as it is so good for us. It is recommended for good health we eat seafood a minimum of twice a week. I know loads of us do not meet that requirement, why I created the book in 2016 . This lasagne is the kid friendliest seafood recipe ever! If there was ever a recipe that you wanted to try to get the kids to eat some seafood then this is it.

Last night we made a lemon, dill, yogurt, fennel, celery slaw to go with the lasagne and garlic bread from some baguettes I baked earlier in the day. There isn’t a recipe yet for the slaw I made it up yesterday. The first week we made an oil & vinegar dressed salad so I am trying to change it up and teach new things each week thats why we went with the yogurt dressing.

Pasta making is always a lot of fun with children. Hands in and messy wants not to enjoy?

The children’s focus was making their own pasta so I made the sauce for them so we could get it done in time. While the lasagne was in the oven they made their salad and garlic bread.

The skills they learnt/practised

Knife skills

Pasta making, dough and rolling

Salad dressing with a yogurt base

Garlic butter and garlic bread

Baking

Steph joins in and assists with the younger class and Maggie with the older class, in-between their homework. They are learning new things too and I am actually discovering things that I assumed I had already taught them. They cook our dinner while they are working, last night it was delicious, we all agreed. I know the other parents are appreciating a dinner cooked for them too!

Next Monday we are making a salmon and honey soy noodle salad, I am excited for this already. The classes are Monday 11 year olds and younger 3.45PM to 5.15PM 12 years and older 5.15Pm to 6.45PM. It’s not too late to join in for the term. $65 a week.