Ready Steady Cook!

Four of our team were in Ready Steady Cook mode today - and although we weren't given a carrier bag with only 5 food items in it, it did feel a bit like that this evening when we arrived as there was very little food for us to base our menu on.

But it didn't take us long to decide that using eggs, peppers and potatoes squirreled away last week, and with the addition of some carrots we could at least make a pretty delicious frittata for the main course. Tigger was great at sorting through the box of carrots and getting rid of those that were well passed their best, while Gill and Caron form FoodCycle got on with peeling them all. Martin and Mayra joined the crew and were soon busy peeling, chopping, and cracking a mammoth number of eggs.

Our starter today was out of a tin, so didn't need too much preparation. Thanks Mr/Mrs Heinz for some delicious tomato soup, and Gill prepped the toast to go with it.

For dessert it was decided we would serve banana custard and Martin made an excellent vat of custard for his debut attempt at custard making. And it was fabulous. Well done!!!

We couldn't have served the meal without the excellent hosting from Abdo and Derrick and the other hosts. Thanks for singing up.

It was also great to meet Mehdi who had arrived unannounced for his first experience of FoodCycle and his first experience of GoodGym. We hope that next time he will sign up and help as a host or in the kitchen, now he knows how it works.

And at the end of the meal the guest and volunteers were all given one of Gill's home made cakes, celebrating her big 60 a day early.