Last week we started a second Hands-On Team night @ Wholegrain Organics cafe – now operating Wednesday and Thursday nights. Students arrive at 4pm, we prepare dinner and produce until 6pm when dinner service starts. The Thursday night has become so popular we have now started the second day – already with 10 students!

We learnt the correct way to finely dice an onion to go into the potato cakes – of which we made around 160. We made a pot of tasty potato & cumin soup. We seasoned and roasted tofu cubes for the salad, and we produced a batch of carob chocolate – yum.

Students also had a go at serving at the till, making fresh juices and smoothies to order, plating up the meals and serving the meals to the customers. 

Making fresh juice for a customer

Serving tables

Plating up the dinner

Serving tables

Till service

Preparing menu boards

Roast that tofu

Texture in the potato soup

Forming potato cakes

Forming more potato cakes

Mixing potato cake mixture

Chopping fresh parsley

Grating carrot the quick way!

Celery for the soup

Finely dicing onion the proper way

Lighting the gas hob – a bit scary!

How to properly dice an onion

Carob chocolate ingredients