Month: May 2023

Vegetarian Pasta Sauce

Vegetarian sauce with rainbow pasta

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp crushed garlic
  • Olive oil
  • 6 ripe tomatoes diced
  • 1 tin of crushed tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup of sun-dried tomatoes cut into small pieces
  • 1/3 cup of tomato pesto
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • black pepper
  • 1 tsp chilli flakes
  • 3 carrots cut into large chunks
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1/4 cup fresh parsley, rough-cut
  • 1 broccolli cut into flourettes
  • 1 bunch fresh basil finely cut
  • 100g baby spinach leaves
  • 1/2 red capsicum, diced
  • 1 zucchini, diced
  • 200g feta cheese cut into small cubes
  • Parmesan cheese to sprinkle over

Method

  1. Saute crushed garlic in pan with oil
  2. Add diced tomatoes, and tinned tomatoes. Saute for 4 minutes with lid on the pan. Low heat.
  3. Add sun-dried tomatoes, carrots, onion, pesto, brown sugar, black pepper, and chilli.
  4. Add oregano and parsley
  5. Add broccolli
  6. Steam for 5 minutes with lid on.
  7. Add capsicum, zucchini, and spinach. Don’t mix, as this will break the leaves.
  8. Add feta cheese. Cook for 10 minutes.
  9. Serve with colourful pasta, sprinkled with parmesan cheese

Banana Bread

Ingredients

  • 2 to 3 medium (20 cm), very ripe bananas peeled (about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups mashed)
  • 75g butter, unsalted or salted, melted
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda (not baking powder)
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 3/4 cup (150g) sugar (1/2 cup if you would like it less sweet, 1 cup if more sweet)
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups (200g) all-purpose flour

Method

  1. Preheat the oven and prepare the pan:Preheat the oven to 175°C, and butter an 20cm x 10cm loaf pan.
  2. Mash the bananas and add the butter:In a mixing bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork until completely smooth. Stir the melted butter into the mashed bananas.
  1. Mix in the remaining ingredients:Mix in the baking soda and salt. Stir in the sugar, beaten egg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the flour.
  1. Bake the bread:Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan.
  1. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes at 175°C, or until a toothpick or wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. A few dry crumbs are okay; streaks of wet batter are not. If the outside of the loaf is browned but the center is still wet, loosely tent the loaf with foil and continue baking until the loaf is fully baked.
  2. Cool and serve:Remove from oven and let cool in the pan for a few minutes. Then remove the banana bread from the pan and let cool completely before serving. Slice and serve. (A bread knife helps to make slices that aren’t crumbly.)Wrapped well, the banana bread will keep at room temperature for 4 days. For longer storage, refrigerate the loaf up to 5 days, or freeze it.

Code Camp Holiday Programme

Dear Akela,

I went to a holiday program called codecamp and I made a game using java script which is a programming language. The game was 3d and had two levels before the main fight. This part is really hard for beginners as the enemy has ten lives and you only have 3, you fire arrows at a milk carton and the carton fires rubber duckies at you, fast. The coding was mostly quite simple (for me) as I do computer programming a lot. This was quite an interesting task for me as I don’t often do games, let alone 3d ones. After the 

In the picture you can see with the two screenshots where the milk carton says “that hurts” and where in the program that is randomly selected from a list called bossvocab.

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NIDA Holiday Programme

Write-up of holiday program activity for Cubs

Over the school holidays I went to a drama and performance school for a week. The topic of the program was ‘rags to riches’ (personal growth, character development). I was in the year 3-6 level and there were 16 of us. On Friday that week I did a performance. I sung two songs:

You ‘ain’t never had a friend like me – Aladdin

It’s a hard knock life – Annie

We did numerous smaller group performances (4 groups of 4 mostly) all based on Cinderella and (again) Aladdin. 

For our group performances we went through stages:

  1. Mime
    1. We had to start making the scene with no sound at all
  2. One sound effect
    1. We could add one sound effect to each character
  3. Gibberish
    1. We made the scene with words replaced with gibberish
  4. Full sound
    1. We made the scene with all of the lines and dialogue

It was great fun and I very much enjoyed it. I suggest that if you like doing performances check out the N.I.D.A program.

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