SURPRISE.....Healthy Cooking Week

Today the surprise was revealed.....we are all taking on a healthy cooking challenge this week! In groups of 4, we are going to collaboratively research, design, budget, advertise and cook a healthy meal. This meal has to serve 4 children and be prepped/cooked within half an hour. We have Tuesday and Wednesday to plan and create an ebook to advertise our meals and then on Thursday we will be cooking!

Today we were very lucky to have a special visitor....Deep from Giovanni's restaurant! He came in and did a cooking demonstration - showing us how to make pasta from scratch and create a marinara sauce to go with it!

We really enjoyed this cooking demonstration and cannot wait to use some of the skills we learnt today when we cook our own meal. Deep also told us about the NZ junior MasterChef challenge that he is hosting next year here in Rotorua. Keep an eye out for advertising about this as we are the perfect age to enter! He is also bringing out a cook book called Lets Eat later in the year that includes his recipes as well as some junior chef's recipes that they have developed in Deep's special cooking classes for kids!