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FRESH SAUSAGE-MAKING COMMUNITY COURSE

Sunday 24th March – 1pm to 4pm

Roleystone Family Centre

19 Wygonda Road, Roleystone, Western Australia

 

Learn how to make your own gourmet sausages at home! From British-style to beef, chicken, pork (and other) sausages, adding herbs, fruit and nuts - for traditional sausages and lean sausages too. We’ll be exploring ingredients, flavour combinations, and demonstrating how to mince, mix and make fresh sausages step-by-step using locally sourced meat, natural flavours and no artificial ingredients. Have a go at making sausages with us on the day if you like! Course notes included. Bookings essential.

 

Bookings: https://courses.roleyfamilycentre.com.au/courses/Fresh%20Sausage%20Making,%20Term%201%202024

or email contact@roleyfamilycentre.com.au

or phone (08) 9496 1115 (Mon-Fri, 9am-2pm)

 

Connect with Food Preserving:

Website: www.foodpreserving.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodpreserving.org

Instagram: www.instagram.com/food_preserving

 

Roleystone Family Centre does not sell tickets via Facebook comments (just the booking link above), so please be mindful when approached by strangers online trying to sell tickets. These are scammers! Tickets cannot be transferred into anyone else’s name unless Roleystone Family Centre is contacted via email and the correct processes are followed.

 

As a not for profit, Roleystone Neighbourhood Family Centre relies on minimum numbers for classes/courses. Show your support by sharing this event with your family and friends. Thank you to the Community for your support.

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FERMENTING FUN COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS (HANDS-ON)
Sunday 5th May – 10am to 2pm
Roleystone Family Centre
19 Wygonda Road, Roleystone, Western Australia
 
From yoghurt to sauerkraut, kefir to kimchi, explore the history and variety of gut friendly food! Learn how to ferment, culture, care for and create fermented vegetables at home. Ingredients and techniques will be discussed in detail as you create your very own batch of sauerkraut AND kimchi, plus our step-by-step recipes. This community course is ideal for beginners, an introduction to fermented food and includes course notes, equipment use, ingredients and catering. Join us for our hands-on community workshop for some fermenting fun!

What’s Included:
- Overview of the lacto-fermentation process.
- Fermentation safety (monitoring advice/tips).
- Equipment discussion (we provide equipment and gloves to use at the class) including basic equipment required and other equipment that makes bigger/bulk fermenting quicker/easier.
- Hands-on fermenting: German-Style Sauerkraut (with customised options for you to try in class and included in the notes).
- Hands-on fermenting: Korean-Style Kimchi (plus showing you other Korean-style fermented vegetables you can make at home with the same technique you will learn).
- Ingredients to use in the class to make your ferments.
- Printed course notes with recipes, tips, links and other fermented recipe recommendations.
- Plus tea, coffee and catering (savoury kimchi pancakes with lots of toppings for lunch)

Please Bring:
- 2 x 500-750ml glass jars with hinged lids - with an opening wide enough to fit your hand inside (we will bring new jars and some fermenting supplies along if you wish to purchase these at the class).
- 2 x tea towels (for wrapping around each jar) plus a box, basket or container to transport your jars home safely.
- Apron.
- Closed-in shoes.
- Hair tied back.
- Water bottle and/or reusable coffee cup.

Let’s create community connections through our hands-on cooking classes!

This session is for adults (18yrs+).

Please pre-book to secure your spot to attend this workshop.
Bookings: https://courses.roleyfamilycentre.com.au/courses/FERMENTING%20FUN%20COMMUNITY%20COOKING%20CLASS%20Term%202 

or email contact@roleyfamilycentre.com.au

or phone (08) 9496 1115 (M-F 9am-2pm, during school term)
 
Connect with Food Preserving:
Website: www.foodpreserving.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodpreserving.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/food_preserving

Roleystone Family Centre does not sell tickets via Facebook comments (just via their booking link), so please be mindful when approached by strangers online trying to sell tickets. These are scammers! Tickets cannot be transferred into anyone else’s name unless Roleystone Family Centre is contacted via email and the correct processes are followed.

As a not for profit, Roleystone Neighbourhood Family Centre relies on minimum numbers for classes/courses. Show your support by sharing this event with your family and friends. Thank you to the Community for your support. 

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SCONES & JAM COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS
(HANDS-
ON)


Sunday 19th May – 10am to 2pm
Roleystone Family Centre
19 Wygonda Road, Roleystone, Western Australia

Do you love eating (or baking) scones? Want to learn how to make scones? Come join this new hands-on community cooking workshop and learn everything you need to know to make perfectly baked scones time and time again! From classic to fruit scones, scone rounds, scone danish, lemonade scones (and much more). We’ll also whip up some fresh cream and jam in the kitchen to enjoy with scones for afternoon tea. Sometimes, making scones at home can be tricky – so this workshop is a space for everyone to learn together! If you have scone-making experience, want to show off a batch of your famous homemade scones, share a scone recipe or want to learn more as a beginner, we would love to have you join us!

What’s Included:
- Overview of types of scones and how to make them, including measuring ingredients, mixing by hand (or machine), dough handling (rolling, cutting and shaping), baking scones, serving ideas, storage tips, ingredients, etc.
- Equipment discussion (we provide equipment and gloves to use at the class) including basic equipment required and other equipment that makes bigger/bulk batches quicker/easier.
- Hands-on scone making (the fun, floury part!) --> plus lots more recipes in the course notes included.
- Ingredients to use in the class to make your scones.
- Printed course notes with recipes, tips, links and other scone recipe recommendations.
- Plus tea, coffee and catering (scones, butter, jam and cream).

Please Bring:
- Apron.
- Closed-in shoes.
- Hair tied back.
- Water bottle and/or reusable coffee cup.
- 2 x tea towels plus a 2 litre volume container, basket or box to transport your scones home safely.

Let’s create community connections through our hands-on cooking classes!

This session is for adults (18yrs+).

Please pre-book to secure your spot to attend this workshop.
Bookings: https://courses.roleyfamilycentre.com.au/courses/Scones%20&%20Jam%20Community%20Cooking%20Class%20Term%202%202024 
or email contact@roleyfamilycentre.com.au
or phone (08) 9496 1115 (M-F 9am-2pm, during school term)
 
Connect with Food Preserving:
Website: www.foodpreserving.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodpreserving.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/food_preserving

Roleystone Family Centre does not sell tickets via Facebook comments (just via their booking link), so please be mindful when approached by strangers online trying to sell tickets. These are scammers! Tickets cannot be transferred into anyone else’s name unless Roleystone Family Centre is contacted via email and the correct processes are followed.

As a not for profit, Roleystone Neighbourhood Family Centre relies on minimum numbers for classes/courses. Show your support by sharing this event with your family and friends. Thank you to the Community for your support. 

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DAIRY-FREE COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS (HANDS-ON)

Sunday 26th May – 10am to 2pm
Roleystone Family Centre
19 Wygonda Road, Roleystone, Western Australia
 
Our plant-based cooking workshop will be a fresh, colourful and delicious one! Join us and learn how to create (hands-on, step-by-step) dairy-free coconut yoghurt, a yummy berry/beetroot compote and probiotic chocolates to assemble your very own breakfast jar (and sweet treats) to take home!

What’s Included:
- Overview of dairy-free cooking – including discussing various ingredients and alternatives.
- How to make coconut yoghurt (and other types of dairy-free yoghurt).
- Make beetroot/berry compote from scratch.
- Make probiotic chocolates from scratch.
- Serving ideas, storage tips.
- Create your own breakfast jar to take home!
- Ingredients and equipment included/provided to make the above recipes together in class.
- Printed course notes with recipes from the class plus tips, links and our other favourite vegetarian recipes - granola, chia pudding, raw fruit/vegetable juices, choc almond milk and eggplant bacon.
- Plus tea, coffee and catering (cauliflower biryani and coconut yoghurt for lunch).

Please Bring:
- 1 x 250-300ml jar with lid (or airtight container with lid). We will bring new jars along if you wish to purchase this at the class.
- A frozen freezer block and insulated lunch bag to transport your jar/container home safely (ensuring it is kept chilled during transport).
- Apron.
- Closed-in shoes.
- Hair tied back.
- Water bottle and/or reusable coffee cup.

Let’s create community connections through our hands-on cooking classes!

This session is for adults (18yrs+).

Please pre-book to secure your spot to attend this workshop.
Bookings: https://courses.roleyfamilycentre.com.au/courses/Diary%20Free%20Community%20Cooking%20Class%20Term%202%202024
or email contact@roleyfamilycentre.com.au
or phone (08) 9496 1115 (M-F 9am-2pm, during school term)
 
Connect with Food Preserving:
Website: www.foodpreserving.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodpreserving.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/food_preserving

Roleystone Family Centre does not sell tickets via Facebook comments (just via their booking link), so please be mindful when approached by strangers online trying to sell tickets. These are scammers! Tickets cannot be transferred into anyone else’s name unless Roleystone Family Centre is contacted via email and the correct processes are followed.

As a not for profit, Roleystone Neighbourhood Family Centre relies on minimum numbers for classes/courses. Show your support by sharing this event with your family and friends. Thank you to the Community for your support.


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“LUNCHBOX EDITION” COMMUNITY COOKING CLASS (HANDS-ON)

Sunday 9th June – 10am to 2pm

Roleystone Family Centre
19 Wygonda Road, Roleystone, Western Australia
 
We’re looking at tasty, nourishing options for filling your lunchbox (school-friendly and suitable for grown-ups too) in this hands-on community cooking class!

What’s Included:
- Overview of lunchbox filling options, discussing ingredients, storage, equipment etc.
- Make oatmeal breakfast cookies.
- Make pancakes two ways (sheet pan and muffins).
- Make green goddess salad and yoghurt dressing.
- How to dehydrate apples (and other fruits/vegetables).
- How to make fruit leather/rollups in a dehydrator.
- Make bliss balls.
- Ingredients and equipment included/provided to make the above recipes together in class.
- Take home samples of everything in your lunchbox!
- Printed course notes with recipes from the class plus tips, links and our other favourite lunchbox recipes, including focaccia, fruit/vegetable juices, gelatine gummies, mini pies, mini pizza, salad (Asian-style, broccoli/quinoa and Thai-style), sandwich fillings, sausage rolls/scrolls, sushi, vegetable nuggets, wraps, zucchini slice and dehydrated vegetable wraps in a rainbow of colours and flavours!
- Plus tea, coffee and catering (raw cold-pressed fruit/vegetable juice + fresh kale slaw salad/wrap for lunch).

Please Bring:
- Your lunchbox (or a 1-litre container with airtight lid).
- A frozen freezer block and insulated lunch bag to transport your lunchbox samples home safely (ensuring it is kept chilled during transport).
- Apron.
- Closed-in shoes.
- Hair tied back.
- Water bottle and/or reusable coffee cup.

Let’s create community connections through our hands-on cooking classes!

This session is for adults (18yrs+).

Please pre-book to secure your spot to attend this workshop.
Bookings: https://courses.roleyfamilycentre.com.au/courses/Lunchbox%20Edition%20Community%20Cooking%20Class%20Term%202%202024 
or email contact@roleyfamilycentre.com.au
or phone (08) 9496 1115 (M-F 9am-2pm, during school term)
 
Connect with Food Preserving:
Website: www.foodpreserving.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/foodpreserving.org
Instagram: www.instagram.com/food_preserving

Roleystone Family Centre does not sell tickets via Facebook comments (just via their booking link), so please be mindful when approached by strangers online trying to sell tickets. These are scammers! Tickets cannot be transferred into anyone else’s name unless Roleystone Family Centre is contacted via email and the correct processes are followed.

As a not for profit, Roleystone Neighbourhood Family Centre relies on minimum numbers for classes/courses. Show your support by sharing this event with your family and friends. Thank you to the Community for your support.
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ATTENDED AND SUPPORTED OUR FOOD PRESERVING COMMUNITY EVENTS SINCE 2013, ESPECIALLY A BIG THANK YOU TO VENUES AND STAFF. 

Megan Radaich
Sustainability Educator & Author
Food Preserving & Green Life Skills
www.foodpreserving.org  I  www.greenlifeskills.com
   
Acknowledgement 
Kaya Wanjoo. Food Preserving kaditj kalyakoorl moondang-ak kaaradj midi boodjar-ak nyininy, yakka wer waabiny, Noongar moort. Ngala kaditj baalap kalyakoorl nidja boodjar wer kep kaaradjiny, baalap moorditj nidja yaakiny-ak wer moorditj moort wer kaditj Birdiya wer yeyi.
Hello and Welcome. Food Preserving acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, work and play, the Nyoongar people. We recognise their connection to the land and local waterways, their resilience and commitment to community and pay our respect to Elders past and present.
 
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