Last weekend I went to a free community workshop held by the Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living. It was designed for reducing food wastage by using your home grown fruits and veggies by preserving them in recipes. The workshop was taught by a chef (I didn't catch his name but he teaches the Thai cooking classes at Macarthur Community college!) and he went through four different recipes as well as giving tips on sterilising jars.
We were taught how to make strawberry jam, mint jelly, lemon curd and tomato concasse (which is good as pasta sauce and in casseroles), in previous workshops he taught tomato relish but figured that with winter coming on, we might prefer a sauce based recipe.
It was a nice cool day and pleasant to sit watching him cook in the afternoon light, we were also able to get up when we wanted to watch the stove at the back and sampled the mint jelly and tomato concasse. As a lovely surprise, at the end of the workshop, we were given raffle tickets and given a free jar to take home, turns out I was called first =D so I picked up a fresh jar of lemon curd and my sister chose the tomato relish, which he had prepared before the workshop.
For some tips that I learnt at the workshop and some recipes, there is a more detailed post at Curious Chopstix.
(The cloud that looked like a whale...)1 Mount Annan Drive
Mount Annan NSW 2567
Phone (02) 4647 9828
Workshops and other great information can be found on their website or in local newspapers.
http://www.mcsl.org.au/workshops-events/campbelltown-city-council-workshops/
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