Cookery

Welcome to our new cookery page....

We've added this page to our website to give you some advance details of courses the Shelthorpe Family Hub offers to anyone interested in enhancing their cooking skills. We have a new course coming up in March, and this autumn's  course programme starts from the end of August - see below for details. 

Head over to our Archive page for details of some of our previous courses.....and see the results of participants' endeavours for yourself.

if you're trying to reduce your grocery bills, why not take a look at our 'Hot Tips' section below this box for some simple ways of preventing food waste....

Future Cookery Courses and their Content:

1. Cook, Meet and Eat – only 4 sessions: Cooking, saving money, costing, and budgeting. We will also learn about saving food waste, best before and display dates etc.

All the ingredients and recipes and the equipment to cook the food will be provided. You will take the food you cook home to share with your family.

2. Save, Taste, Zero Waste: Reducing food costs and waste, money saving tips and a taste test will be offered.

3. Baking by Numbers: Baking, saving money and costing

All the ingredients and recipes and the equipment to cook the food will be provided. You will take the bakes/cakes home for your family to enjoy.

4. Cookie in a Jar:  All the ingredients and recipes and the equipment will be provided.

You will take the jar home, or make the cookies during the session and take them home for your whole family to enjoy.

The above courses are all free of charge, and all ingredients will be provided. They are a great way to learn new skills, socialise and make new friends.

We are also open to creating bespoke courses based on specific needs and requirements.

If you're interested in joining any of these courses, and would like more details about joining, contact Therese via email at Therese.Dinh@leics.gov.uk.

You can also find out more about these courses, and others offered by Leics. C.C., via the following link:

https://golearnleicestershire.ac.uk/courses/multiply/

We've also published a new article on Food Recycling on the Recycling page - this is designed to complement course content and provide some useful general hints and tips on how to avoid food waste. Check it out and save yourself ££££s....

Hot Tips Section

We've reserved this section for some simple recipes designed to avoid food waste. Here are a couple you might not yet have come across:

• Frozen yoghurt: Did you know you can freeze most types of yogurt to prevent it going off in  the fridge ? You can either freeze it in its original pot, or transfer it into a new one. After you've thawed it out, give it a good mix  before use. A couple of 'don'ts': 1) avoid overfilling the container - water expands when it freezes, so leave enough space above the liquid.  2) never freeze in glass containers. 3) Always use the thicker and creamier varieties of Yoghurt  for this - some of the thinner (and usually cheaper) yoghurts don't freeze well and tend to coagulate on thawing.

• Frozen Sliced banana:  If you're ever faced with an excess of ripe bananas, and you know you won't be able to use them all  before they become inedible, why not try freezing some of them ? Contrary to popular belief, they taste fine after thawing, and will provide a sweet and non-fattening a iced treat as an alternative to that 'universal destroyer of diets', ice cream. They will even help with your 5-a-day quota by providing some of your daily potassium requirement. Remember to peel them first though and cut them into small segments, then freeze them on a small tray before bagging up - you'll just end up with a mushy mess otherwise !! (Tip: take a couple of segments out of the freezer and let them thaw for a few minutes before eating - frozen banana at -15oC can be quite a challenge to the teeth and gums!)