Food Brain

We speak Marathi Language. In the Marathi language, to say goodbye, we say मला माफ करा. The direct translation is “we will meet again”.

Some things we learned about Australian cooking are:

– Some breakfast foods in Australia are: Pancakes and Vegemite on toast.
– lunch foods in Australia are sandwiches.
– Some dinner foods in Australia are pasta and chicken and meats.
– A special Australian dessert is called Pavlova. It is made with cream, fruits and eggs.
– Most Australians do not like spices or chillies in their food.
– Australians eat rice sometimes. Othertimes, they eat pasta or bread with their meal.

We enjoyed our cooking and using the internet. Thankyou to our Australian friends.

prepreation time: 20 minutes

 Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients (serves 15)

Melted butter, to grease

75g (1/2 cup) self-rising flour

75g (1/2 cup) plain flour

70g (1/2 cup) cornflour

6 x 59g eggs, at room temperature

215g (1 cup) caster sugar

1 tbs boiling water

170g (2 cups) desiccated coconut

Chocolate icing

300g (2 cups) icing sugar mixture

35g (1/3 cup) cocoa powder

60ml (1/4 cup) milk

60ml (1/4 cup) boiling water

Method

Preheat oven to 160°C. Brush a 19 x 29cm (base measurement) lamington pan with melted butter to lightly grease. Line the base and sides with non-stick baking paper, allowing it to overhang slightly.

Sift the combined flours together into a large bowl. Repeat twice.

Use an electric beater to whisk the eggs in a large clean, dry bowl until thick and pale. Gradually add the sugar, 1 tbs at a time, whisking well after each addition until mixture is thick and sugar dissolves.

Sift the combined flours over the egg mixture. Pour the boiling water down the side of the bowl. Use a large metal spoon to gently fold until just combined. Pour mixture into the prepared pan and use the back of a spoon to smooth the surface. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Turn cake onto a wire rack, cover with a clean tea towel and set aside overnight to cool.

Trim the edges of the cake and cut into 15 squares. Spread the coconut over a plate.

To make the chocolate icing, sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder into a medium bowl. Add the milk and water and stir until smooth.

Use 2 forks to dip 1 cake square into the warm icing to evenly coat. Allow any excess icing to drip off. Use your fingers to roll the cake in the coconut to evenly coat, then place on a wire rack. Repeat with the remaining cake squares, icing and coconut. Set aside for 1 hour or until icing sets.

WE ARE OFF ON HOLIDAYS!! The students are counting down the minutes… See you in 2 weeks!!! See ya!!!!

Pavlova is an Australian sweet made using eggs and sugar.

We have been learning about what Australians eat for breakfast. Some of the things they eat are toast with Vegemite and sometimes they eat pikelets. We would like to share what we eat in one day:

8am – Breakfast:

For breakfast we eat Idli (a rice pudding with coconut chutney), Dosa (a rice pancake) Poha (beaten rice) Egg Bhurji, or tea with biscuits.

12.30 – Lunch

For lunch we get the Mid-Day Meal. Every school student in India gets the Mid-Day Meal. This scheme was made into a law in 2001 to make sure that all children who go to school have at least one meal per day. We eat rice and Dhal.

4.15pm – Snack
After School we have tea and biscuits for a snack

8pm – Supper
For supper we eat Chappati (flat bread) or Bhakri (rice bread) and vegetables.

Yesterday we were cooking. We learned how to make the Toffee Recipe that our friends in Australia sent to us. The Toffee is a sweet made from sugar, you should not eat it often, only for a festival. We Enjoyed eating the toffee. We thought it smelled like orange chocolate and it tasted sweet. It was very chewy. It took us a long time to eat!

Another great breakfast or snack food is pikelets. They are a small sweet flat pancake.

It is really nice with homemade jam ( blackberry jam is fantastic !!!) , and fresh cream. Some people like to put brown sugar on top with cream.  They are really nice with butter too. My family also enjoy golden syrup on top as well.

Ingredients 

A RECIPE FROM INDIA:

We use eggs to cook many things in Indian cooking. This is one recipe we made using eggs. We eat it for breakfast with chapatti (flatbread)

EGG BHURJI

1 onion

2 tomatoes

2 tablespoons of butter

1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder

1/4 cup of milk

1 bunch of fresh coriander

4 eggs

Pinch of salt.

How to do:

Cut the onion, and tomatoes. If you like chilli, you can cut two small chilli.

Fry the onion and add the tomatoes, turmeric and salt with the butter.

Beat the eggs and milk together in a separate bowl and add it to the frying pan. Cook it until it becomes crumbly.

Chop the coriander and add it at the very end.

Fry everything together for one or two minutes and then eat it with Chapatti!

Please tell us if you like our recipe!

Today we tasted what Australian’s eat for breakfast – this is what we thought of it:

• 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
• 10g butter
• 2 tbsp boiling water
• 2 tbsp vinegar
• 100′s and 1000′s or crushed nuts, to decorate