Zuke Tube: How to Grow and Cook Zucchini aka Courgettes
Lesson Length: One Hour
Learning Objectives:
To teach students about the growth cycle of the zucchini, facts about the plant structure, pollination, and harvesting.
To show the students a variety of cooking show styles.
To teach the editing and storyboarding process.
To teach the students media critique and media literacy.
To use the "expert game" to teach improvisational skills, to gain confidence in public speaking and interview skills (giving interviews and being the interviewee.) To prepare students for the exercise of creating their own cooking shows.
Introduce the idea of creating a class cookbook.
Homework: Students can look over magazines and choose one or two recipes they would like to cook in their cooking show. For this exercise one of the ingredients must be from the squash family: ie pumpkin, zucchini, spaghetti squash, etc.
In the next lesson students will list the ingredients and the cooking tools they need to make their recipe. I will need a copy of each recipe. Eventually the students will be broken down into groups of three, so if more than one student like a recipe, that's a good thing. We will then improvise our cooking shows, and then create story boards and scripts.
1 min BBC Dig In: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSsFixgoAA
2:24, Time lapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_lGLBCwkKE
2 min, Pollinating zukes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1crwrsxj8
6 min, River Cottage good tips on growing zukes and a grilled courgette salad: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5449374/14343716
3.5 min, video for people who sell veggies, The Produce Lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhv6pcg-A0c
5 min, Gordon Ramsey, Stuffed Courgette Rolls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7z8vAwdt_M
Jamie Oliver (start the video at 2 min 25 seconds): Deep fried courgette flowers 11 min.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1mwGb-wNU
4:45, Griddled Yellow Pepper, Courgette and Tandoori Paneer Salad: PATAK's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFQ6pG1qUE
4:30, Mixed salad: http://www.youtube.com/gardengirltv#p/search/0/2ahKHAaDDCc
1 min: tuna and courgette fritters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yv57ENHVh0
Alton Brown: Chili Peppers, Scofield index, DVD
Optional:
3:20, Deep fried courgette flowers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43w6O7tWjjo
3:47, Zucchini Fritters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nBeY8Y-PrE
Improv Subjects:
how to grow a giant pumpkin
salt
carrot juice
chocolate bunnies
healthy smoothies
junk food
miniature cows
giant gingerbread houses
pancakes
zucchini furniture
banana splits
lime jello made in bathtubs
marshmallow mattresses
chocolate covered grasshoppers
how to make a giant pumpkin pie
Bawk! Welcome to J's canning workshop for baked beans and bacon. Bawk!
J had generously purchased top quality ingredients, including applewood smoked bacon cut into chunks she calls "queen beans." She soaked and cooked the beans, then baked them for a half an hour with all the ingredients. The beans finish cooking in the canning process.
I like the way she keeps track of the cost of ingredients and any notes that are relevant for the next time you go to make the recipe.
Beans makes me crazy!
We snacked on salmon that J had canned earlier and her amazing homemade dill pickles!
This is a special canning element J bought which can hold the weight of the pressure cooker.
We filled the jars, leaving two inches of head space and covering the beans with the cooking liquid.
Here's the first rack for one layer of 500ml jars, then you put another rack on top and another layer of jars.
We followed the steps in the canning manual very carefully.
Checking for steam.
While the cooker sputtered away we chatted and drank rooibus chai. IIRC we did 18 jars in total and there were beans left over in the pot so we had weiners and beans for dinner and they were sweet and delicious. Thanks J, you are the queen bean!
