ALN Cook & Learn January 2013

 

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Final Week - 'Cooking Safely on a Budget'

In the final week of the 'Cooking Safely on a Budget' course the class celebrated their achievements by working together as a team to provide a delicious healthy buffet for the staff & visitors to the Deaf centre. They also managed to fit in a quiz and do a recap of all the important theory learned through the month. Everyone had different tasks to contribute to the buffet, we had sandwiches, wraps, cous cous, pasta, salad & cakes, the class put to good use all the great recipes and cooking methods they had learned to deliver a lovely afternoon for all. Well done everyone!

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' Week 5

Sweet week! In Week 5 we satisfied everybodies sugar cravings, but in a healthier way! We made Carrot Cake, Chocolate Brownies and Cheese Cake, all delicious and guilt-free! We looked at alternative ways of making more healthy desserts such as replacing full fat butter with oil, and cream with low fat cream cheese. This was a really enjoyable week as there was lots to take home and share with family and friends! 

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' Week 4

In Week 4 we had an oriental theme by learning more about Chinese cooking. We made stir-fried rice, soup and fruit smoothies. We used leftover fruit and vegetables. We also did some theory in this week, concentrating on the 4 Cs food hygiene messages (cooking cleaning, cooling and avoiding cross-contamination). We discussed best ways to 'clean as we go', in order to avoid germs and pests.

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' Week 3

Week 3

This week were focused on avoiding contaminaton of food - like not wearing jewelry, nail polish etc. We had an Italian theme because we learned how to cook pizza from scratch, making fresh dough, our own pizza sauce and choosing our favourite toppings, even using some leftover veg for this. Not only that, we made pasta and soup to accompany our pizza also using leftover veg!

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' Week 2

Week 2

In Week 2 we reviewed what we learned last week - what do germs need to grow & danger zones. We looked at the importance of hand washing and where gems hide. This week we made made healthy salad wraps and we put to use our leftover chicken from Wednesday by making a delicious soup!

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' 2012 Launch!

'Cooking Safely on a Budget' was a 6 session course on offer here at Deaf Connections through the month of October 2012 for deaf/hard of hearing adult learners. It was funded by the Food Standards Agency - Food Safety Week Campaign and the tuition was delivered by a REHIS tutor and supported by an ALN tutor. We ran our first cooking course earlier on in the year and it proved so successful and so popular we are hoping to make it a regular opportunity for the Deaf community!

For more information about ALN and the courses we run please contact Anne@deafconnections.co.uk  We are currently taking names for January 2013 Cook & Learn. 

Week 1
In Week 1 we had 2 sessions, Wednesday and Friday. Six of our ALN learners made 2 delicious dishes - a roast chicken dinner and then using the vegetable leftovers, a tasty warming soup with a nip! Importantly they also learned about cooking these dishes safely to avoid cross contamination and about best before and use by dates as well as other important health & hygiene do's and don'ts. It was very informative and everyone can't wait for the next session on Friday and to follow up with some exciting ALN oportunities!