GUEST BLOG: Leading a session with Chorlton Good Neighbours
May 4, 2010 in community group session, cooking sessions, Cracking Cooks, Good Neighbours, guest blog, Lawrence
By guest blogger CRACKING COOK LORENZO
Had an exhausting but great two hours doing a cooking demo for some of our local seniors from the Chorlton Good Neighbours group last week. I did the spiel, jokes and anecdotes while everyone else did the cooking.
The theme was microwave miracles. We made:
a) granola with porridge oats, syrups (the date syrup went down well; the rice syrup only so-so) and lots of dried fruit. This was a success as it used ingredients the audience could relate to and only took three minutes in the microwave.
b) mini-muffin pizze. One from a 1978 cookbook. A winner – see the photo of the finished product below (and before cooking above)!
c) chickpea salad. Now I thought everyone ate chickpeas but 75% of the group had never even tasted one before. Not a winner, unfortunately – maybe a step too far.
Lorenzo is on Cracking Good Food’s team of Cracking Cooks. He also writes a blog, Grocer’s Kitchen, about cooking, eating and grow your own.
Love the page… Great photos of those yummy looking pizza. I have a basic and really cheap healthy pizza recipe. Maybe you could try it?
http://www.cooking-made-easy.com/homemade_pizza_recipe.html