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Day 1 of the Easter Kids Camp started today- a great way to keep little hands busy during the midterm break.  We will try and wean them off chocolate by teaching them an exciting range of recipes from different countries and traditions, as well as practical hands on cooking. Other areas explored throughout the week include seasonality, menu planning, nutrition, team building and problem solving. Students sit down together at lunch every day to feast on the fruits of their labour. Kids summer programme run from June to the end of August which follow similar theme & format.

Our Saturday Camps over the winter have been very popular and we are looking forward to these returning from September. I think that teaching the Growing Gourmet is the most enjoyable part of my class. We ran a class for father and Child here last month and we had a super little man here, all of four years of age, here with his Dad. At the start of the class I explained how they needed to have all the ingredients weighed and measured out and in separate containers before they started to cook. Well, this team gave me a master class in this and it was just fantastic to see. Of course I put it all down to an amazing teacher!!

On Tuesday we had the great honour of hosting Mrs. Evelin Ilves author of Kingitud maitsed (Gifts of Taste) and wife of the President of Estonia. Mrs. Ilves was on a visit here with the President on State Business and asked to host a demonstration of traditional Estonian bread for the Estonian community here in Ireland. We had a wonderful evening with this beautiful and gracious First Lady and she presented me with a personalised signed copy of her book. In return she has returned to Estonia with my recipe for Irish Soda Bread with Dulse Seaweed.