Our recipe for cooking was inspired by this weeks' lesson on mangroves. I was researching online lesson plans to build my students' background knowledge before our visitors from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection education team came to our classroom. During my research I found this recipe, but made some slight modifications. We used salty rice cakes instead of plain rice cakes, since a mangrove grows in salt water. The water for our snack was made from cream cheese tinted with blue food coloring, however we added a dash of powdered ranch dressing mix for flavor. We used curvy pretzels instead of straight pretzels, since they look more like mangrove roots. The original recipe added a lettuce canopy, but we left that part off. For a final touch we added Goldfish crackers instead because the mangrove is home to many species of fish.
The children mixed an ounce of cream cheese, 1/8 teaspoon of Ranch dressing mix and 2 drops of blue food coloring with a plastic knife in a cup.
They spread the cream cheese water onto the salty rice cake island.
Next they broke their pretzels into pieces and poked them into the cream cheese to look like mangrove roots.
Then they added Goldfish cracker fish.
Care to try some?
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