This morning we split up into groups. One group stayed and helped Mr Mason work around the garden building. That group weeded around the building, cut weeds in carrot patches, and Stephanie picked tomatoes for the afternoon. At Kimberton, we picked onions, weeded cabbage beds, chopped the tops off of onions, and one group worked with Mr Tom. Weeding the cabbages was hard because there were lots of prickly plants in the beds that we couldn't touch without hurting ourselves. Picking onions was hard because some of them were mushy and wet because they were rotten. We processed probably a whole bed of onions - 3 wheelbarrows.
This afternoon we came back to eat lunch and then Ms Cara arrived. We made ketchup, waffles that were vegan, groundnut soup (groundnuts are peanuts), kale chips, collards and sweet potato mousse. To make the kale chips, we had to rub little pieces of kale with olive oil, season them, and then bake them in the oven. We didn't like the kale chips - it was an unsatisfying taste, in our opinion. The waffles were okay, but we would have liked them better warm and with maple syrup. Alexis chopped celery for the soup; Haley worked on the kale chips; Jacob helped measure water and oats for the waffles; Willie also made waffles. Today we learned to never trust Zairre with waffles - Willie and Zairre burnt one, and apparently it was Zairre's fault. We also learned that there are two different ways to make ketchup - you can make it with tomato paste, or boil down tomatoes. It takes an hour and a half to boil down tomatoes because they have a lot of water in them and you have to take all the water out. Today was a little hectic in the kitchen because our kitchen is small, but we made a lot of food items.
Written by Alexis, Willie, Jacob, and Haley
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