The class today was soup! 20 enthusiastic participants enjoying themselves immensely. A visit to Earthcare is always a joy. Eric took us on a tour of the community vege garden and we picked a few ingredients for lunch on the way. From talking with folks today it is clear that there is a growing movement […]
Another band of enthusiastic students came along to the March cooking class at Earthcare. We even had Polly come along who is visiting from England. Today’s salad ingredients were picked from community garden at Earth Care Centre, Hawkesburry UWS for the cabbage salad to go with curry dishes. The challenge is to slice the cabbage […]
Snake beans is a great fresh, crunchy and healthy Lao vege Enjoy them fresh from the climbing vine every time without cooking and plastic bag packaging. Snake beans are commonly grown in Laos and we eat them fresh in salads or pop them into curry. We picked our snake beans and gave them to our […]
Fresh rolls at home Lao style is done in 30 mins anytime and anywhere where you’ve got fresh salad veges. This Saturday is was our home garden fresh picked ingredients for the rolls include: Mints, Perilla, Chilli, E-Lert leaf, lettuce, cucumber, Vietnamese mint… to name a few. This time we also had noodles to add […]
“Lets Have this in cucumber salad” said Ling showing me some Bac Ha. News to me, it looked like small taro leaves and stalk. “It’s Bac Ha” said Ling, “we have it with our salads”. She showed me how it compared with Taro, holding it up against her Mum’s prize Taro patch plants. A quick […]
There was a colourful array of ingredient laid out on the smoothie work bench. You just knew we were in for delicious time. Sweet shakes made with dragon fruit and savoury shakes with fresh veges. Don’t be scared, the savoury shake is a pleasant surprise. We are so used to having sweet shakes, that there […]
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