GCSE Food tech.

[*opal**]

Hi my 15yre old daughter is taking food tech for GCSE. shes been doing it since September. 

 I'm running out of ideas.

Gone are the days of teacher tell you what your making and giving you a list of ingredients.

The kids have to find recipes and sort it out themselves. ie mum will do it.:)

So got to be from scratch, easily portable before and after. Cheap and easy to make. Oh and healthy.

From what I can work out they get about half an hour actual cooking time.

   Please help.:(

[****merlin*****]

what about a stir fry?

bean sprouts, few veggies, sweetcorn, peas, a red pepper, a carrot, and some egg noodles

make a sauce like a chow mein type (its easy and stock cupboard ingredients)

garlic, veg oil, sesame oil, soy sauce

top with chopped spring onion

done

noodles only take a few mins, as does the veggies

more prep time cutting the veg than anything

no meat so easily transported safely

[*opal**]

Hi yes we have done stir fry.  We have done pizza,  we have done pasta bake, poached haddock, lasagna and Bolognese.

[cookiecookuk]

meat balls in tom sauce.quick easy and cheap:-)

[captainbovine]

I knew Cookie would come to the rescue:-D

[ginap.123]

Shouldn't your daughter be reading recipe books or scouring the internet for recipes though. I'm all for helping the kids out but not having someone else doing it all for her. Defeats the object.

[ilove2patch]

I was going to say that too Gina. Plenty of information for her to research.

[guardpig]

Go to Asda or similar and buy her some of theses 1000 cake, pasta, easy recipe books and leave her to it.  

When my daughter did it they had hardly any cooking time at all and she used to want to practise/be helped at home.  Great except she wanted to start at 10pm and I refused because I was going to bed and was so not getting up to clean kitchen and every pot and pan in the house prior to caffeine intake!.  Hated domestic science at school, hated it as a parent.

[captainbovine]

ds in our school was dire in the first  year....would you believe it we had to learn how to iron a handkerchief??;\

I got told off for stretching the corners as I held it to iron it...what??????

is it any wonder I hate ironing,

and buy tissues:^O

[chickengrandma-2008]

We started off learning to wash our brush and comb, clean our shoes and  make a bed.

In needlework our first garment was a pair of knickers.  Ordinary cotton, no stretch at all. When you bent down your bum was bare. 😞

[kiss*my*pixel]

Opal - there was a delicious-looking recipe on Saturday Kitchen the other week, chef was Mark Sargent. It was poached chicken in a lovely broth with lots of seasonal veggies and a herby sauce to top it off. If your daughter logs onto the Saturday Kitchen website search for the episode dated 22 June she'll find it, and I feel sure she could pre-prepare lots of the bits and bobs beforehand, as the cooking time seemed to be fairly short, as long as she gets the chicken on to poach absolutely first thing, before doing anything else.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but intend to, it looks yummy (and very healthy)! 😄

[jillyjingle]

Back in the late 1960's, we had a wonderful DS teacher (Mrs James) we started off with very basic things like a sandwich & cheese on toast - but by the time we reached 5th year we had learnt the methods how to cook any sort of pastry, cakes (including making and decorating a Christmas cake) , yeast cookery, stews, casseroles, roasts and desserts. We also were taught how to work out a balanced meal of protein,veg & carbs and which vitamins & minerals did what.

[captainbovine]

our teacher, in the late 60s left to get married! She was in her 40's I think and we all thought it was so romantic, being 15 and all daft as brushes:^O Her claim to fame was she could peel an apple in one go, no break in the peel, and she never cried when she cut an onion!!!

the things you remember about people eh?:^O

[lhasa.two]

Back in the late 1960's, we had a wonderful DS teacher (Mrs James) we started off with very basic things like a sandwich & cheese on toast - but by the time we reached 5th year we had learnt the methods how to cook any sort of pastry, cakes (including making and decorating a Christmas cake) , yeast cookery, stews, casseroles, roasts and desserts. We also were taught how to work out a balanced meal of protein,veg & carbs and which vitamins & minerals did what.

That brings back memories although it was the early 60's for me. B-)

I can remember taking GCE in DS where we had to cook a three course meal - can't remember what I cooked though... then a separate exam for the theory.

If today they only have half an hour to prep and cook something, no wonder they don't know much about cooking! :^O

[chickengrandma-2008]

No wonder it's all 'fast food' if that's all they're taught.  We used to have the whole afternoon which was three 40 minute lessons, therefore two hours.  We made 'proper dinners'  from scratch.

[johnsmeccparts]

My 15 year old son is doing food tech.

Sourcing the recipes is part of the course work!

Do not do it for her.

[1311rose]

There are plenty of websites and recipe books out there.  On the beeb site you can get loads of recipes - just enter what ingredients you want to use and up they pop.

Absolutely NO need for assistance from parents etc!