How to make Stuffed Baked Potatoes

Today at Technicraft, we made stuffed baked potatoes, they are delicious and this is how you can make them!

Ingredients

• 2 medium baking potatoes
• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese
• 3/4 cup milk, plus more if needed
• 2 tablespoons chopped chives, optional
• Salt and pepper

Method:

1. Wash potatoes and poke 2 holes in each with a knife.
2. Bake potatoes in microwave for 16 mins.
3. Remove potatoes from oven and allow to cool for 5 mins.
4. Scoop the potato pulp into mixing bowl being careful not to break skin.
5. Mash potatoes with butter, cheese and milk.
6. Spoon mashed potatoes back into skins and place in a dish.

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How to make Macaroni and Cheese!

Today in Technicraft, my partner Cameron and I created macaroni cheese and this is how you make them!

2 Tbsp butter

1 onion, finely chopped

2 Tbsp Edmonds standard flour

½ tsp dry mustard

2 cups milk, heated salt and pepper

2 cups grated tasty cheese

2 cups macaroni elbows, cooked

2 Tbsp dry breadcrumbs

• Preheat the oven to 190˚C.
• Melt the butter into a saucepan, add the onion and cook gently for about 10 minutes or until the onion is translucent.
• Stir the flour in and cook.
• Then add the mustard.
• Remove from the heat and add the hot milk gradually, stirring.
• Return to the heat and cook, still stirring, until the sauce boils and thickens.
• Remove from the heat, season with salt and pepper and add half the grated cheese, and the macaroni.
• Combine well and put into an ovenproof dish.
• Mix the breadcrumbs into the remaining grated cheese and sprinkle over the top.
• Cook for 20 minutes or until golden.

How to make honey tea buns!

Today at Technicraft I made honey tea buns with my partner, Cameron!

This is how you make them!

Ingredients:
1. 3 cups Edmonds standard flour

4 tsp Edmonds baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 tsp ground ginger

75g butter

1 egg, beaten

2 Tbsp liquid honey

1 tsp grated orange rind

1 to 1¼ cups milk

extra milk to glaze

sugar

Cinnamon

Steps:
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease or line a baking tray.

2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and ginger into a bowl. Cut butter through until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.

3. Add egg, honey and orange rind. Add sufficient milk to mix to a smooth, firm dough.

4. Roll out the dough to 2.5cm thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into rounds using a 5cm cutter.

5. Place it on baking tray. Brush tops with milk. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

6. Finally bake for 15 minutes or until pale golden.

And now you have delicious honey tea buns! Bon appétit!

Honey Tea Buns!

Chinese Numbers!

Learning Intentions: We are learning how to recognise the Chinese number system.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record myself signing the numbers 1-10 in Chinese.

What is Ash Wednesday?

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, Lent is a Liturgical Season about penance and yielding those that are most precious to us. We give them up because Jesus is our greatest treasure and in giving those things up you are growing closer to God.

Ash Wednesday wasn’t specifically mentioned in the bible but the closest reference is when Job said to the Lord, “I know that you can do everything and that no thought can be concealed from you. Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me which I did not know. Hear, and I will speak, I will question you and you declare to me. I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

In Australia, some churches hold special Ash Wednesday mass in the evening or during the day. It is a time when people who seek penance for their wrongdoings are marked with the sign of the cross, from blessed ashes, on their forehead, it is the same practice we do at mass today. This symbolic occasion reminds people of their mortality and their sins, as well as the willingness to change and the hope of forgiveness. There are also those who chose this time of the year to donate to charities or take part in charity events as a way to get close to God.

In America Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lenten discipline for Christians. It is traditionally a time of fasting and prayer in preparation. For some Christians, Lent is a time to think about one’s life choices, as well as reflect on life directions. It serves as a wake-up call for some Christians.

Low Tides

Low Tide by Sarah Penwarden

I walk beside you

Across mud flaps in

My blue gumboots,

Over crackling oyster

Shells,

Green ribbed pipi

The traces of wading birds.

When the tide is out, what lies exposed:
River threads of mud, old brown stones,

Tiny muscles yet to grow:
My soul prints left

On the ocean’s

Bones.