Once a year the students get together in groups and choose a country which they would like to represent. They then plan food to cook from that country - and all has to be vegan. They have to prepare 400 portions of each thing they make! They only do small portions as there were 19 booths with 3-5 dishes at each booth, so by the time you got round them all, and tried some of each, your plate was pretty full! (unlike some church lunches!)
They invite a large number of people from the community so hence so much food.
It was well supported by the community which was nice. They were concerned that they may not get so many this year as it was Halloween last night so thought people might stay home for that - but it didn't appear so. There were heaps of people.
The students have spent days planning, cooking and decorating. They did a fantastic job - the work that went into their food and booths was amazing. We had the Denmark group cooking in our kitchen on Saturday night and all day sunday getting their food ready. They made gluten (instead of meat), rice pudding, berry sauce, apple cake and are you ready for this - potatoes fried in sugar and butter - like a toffee! They tasted really good. The girls worked long and hard to get it all ready.
We decided not to do a NZ booth this year, we wanted to check out what went on and enjoy this years one. We will do one next year - I need ideas on themes, docorations and NZ food that I can make vegan! That is the challenge.
Kyle didn't make it into a group (not sure why he didn't put his name down in a group) but anyway they put him on the carrot juicing table. So he was busy making lovely organic carrot juice all evening - it tasted yummy. All the food was yummy. The pizza from Greece was fantastic - and it was vegan, no cheese!
After everyone had eaten their fill, the students could do items. The quartet sung a song in Icelantic - which was a challenge for the 3 in the group who aren't from Iceland! But it sounded good. Tamzin played in the orchestra and Kyle sang 3 songs in all with the quartet.
It was a great event. Far better than I expected - not that I know what I expected! the students just blew me away with what they cooked and their decorations. not sure how they fitted all this in with their already extremely busy schedules, but they did.
Antarctica made these cute penguins with olives and carrots!
The greek goddess' serve devine pizza!
Canada went with a lumberjack theme - made apple pies and maple walnut ice cream. It was yum. Here is the Denmark group who cooked at our place (they are all grade 10 - Kyle's year)
Tamzin helped out where ever they needed help. Kyle - juicing the 'king of root vegies'!
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