Finally a good, clean and fair Food Festival for everyone! Slow Food Waitakere has been working very hard with several West Auckland organisations and the Waitakere Ranges Local Board to create the first Food Festival in Glen Eden.
Free Entry!
Come and enjoy:
Stalls from different local community groups to help you with all your gardening needs, from composting to free seeds to community gardening and even a produce swap.
Free cooking demos by experts to show you how to prepare yummy and healthy food, preserve and bottle produce, make cheese etc., including Regina from Slow Food Waitakere dishing up some fashionable 'Pacific Beat' dishes (free tastings). Scroll down for the full demo timetable.
Live music and entertainment plus lots of kids' activities, including face painting and give-aways at our Slow Food Waitakere table.
Hot and yummy hot food from around the world cooked by the New Lynn Night Market WISE Collective Hub (former refugee women) for your Saturday lunch.
Glen Eden Food Festival Cooking Demonstrations
10:30-11:10 Cheesemaking workshop: Halloumi and Ricotta with Virginia Best and Madeleine Collins
Madeleine Collins and Virginia Best will demonstrate making ricotta and halloumi at home using simple ingredients. They will demonstrate how to cut the curd and press cheese. You don’t need any fancy equipment to make cheese and this workshop will give you the confidence to make your own cheese at home.
11:15- 11:45 Preserving talk with Julie Craig of Oak and Thistle
Julie Craig lives self-sustainably in an urban environment and has done for many years. With a young family to provide for, Julie has learned the arts of cooking, preserving, jamming & jellying, herb growing and their uses, home gardening and livestock maintenance.
In this workshop Julie will speak about many aspects of preserving the harvest, from fruits and vegetables to herbs, extracts, and more. Julie will teach you what you need to get started and give some great ideas for making your own basic equipment. She’ll go through the steps of making healthy and tasty edible foods to keep on hand so that you can preserve at home. There will be an opportunity to see examples of preserves and more, and have a taste of some of Julie’s deliciously preserved harvest.
11:50-12:20 Indian Vegetarian Cooking demonstration with Indira Vallabh
In this fun and informative workshop, you’ll come away feeling confident about preparing delicious, authentic, and healthy Indian dishes at home. All dishes are gluten free and recipes will be provided. Indira Vallabh is an experienced Indian cook and has a popular Indian Vegetarian Food stall at the Grey Lynn Farmers Market. Indira will demonstrate a delicious vegetarian curry and either a raita or chutney as an accompaniment. Tastings will be available at the end of the class.
12:25-12:55 Pacific Cooking demonstration with Regina Wypych of Pacific Heartbeat
Regina Wypych of Pacific Heartbeat will bring a Pacific Island flavour to the Glen Eden Food Festival with two simple, delicious, and heart-healthy recipes. The first dish, Vermicelli Chicken Lemon Salad, is a fresh zingy Pacific chicken salad. The second will be a tasty Oka i’a, raw fish salad. You will have a chance to taste both of these dishes, and recipes will be available to take home.
1:00-1:30 Simple Meals at Home with Peter Clifton-Sprigg of Vision West
Learn how to prepare “Pan Fried Moroccan Chicken Breast served with Mini Rostis and a Seasonal Dressed Salad” with chef Peter Clifton-Sprig of VisionWest. This impressive dish is cheap, fast, easy, nutritious, awesome tasting and beautifully presented, with lots of possible variations to try out at home. Ingredients will include fresh raw beetroot, carrots and parsnips or golden kumara, fresh chicken with a deliciously fresh seasonal salad including green, red, orange and yellow vegetables.
See you there!