8 Goodgymers joined the Friends of the temple and members of the Roma trust, to support the cooking classes at the Sri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara. There was lots of fun, and learning for the groups invited to the event and the Goodgym faithful were able to support with prepping, cooking and washing up/ tidying down. We welcomed Joseph to his first good gym task and we hope yo see him at many more in the future. Great gig guys. Well done

Tonight 6 Goodgymers got stuck in at the temple cooking classes. Supporting the evening event, put on for the Friends of the temple and the Roma Trust. Adrian took up the rolling pin and headed up the chapati production line. Lukyamuzi joined the team for his first experience at the temple and got stuck in buttering chapatis. Musa and Derrick were flipping the breads and making sure they were cooked before passing them down the line. The meal being prepared was Sweet pepper curry 🍛.
Gill, mayra and myself joined a little into the session as we'd been at another task, but we all got stuck in with the cooking and serving of the food. Everyone enjoyed the evening and we look forward to supporting again.

Although there was less food available than usual, there wasn't any less enthusiasm form our three GoodGymers who joined the cooking team at FoodCycle this evening.

Gill was on the scene first as she had to open up the church, do the safety checks and also do a stock take ready to do an order later in the week. When her other half delivered the surplus food from the supermarkets they were both rather disappointed by the lack of food available. Fortunately, however, at the task on Sunday Gill had been given two large cream cakes, some double cream and some surplus veg, and this would help bulk out what was on offer.

Ideas were gradually developing and by the time Mayra arrived Gill and Cecilia had pretty much settled on the menu. The main event would be a vegetarian shepherd's pie and for this we would need a ton of mash. Cecilia and Mayra got stuck into peeling a mammoth pile of potatoes, and soon had them boiling away, ready for Cecilia to turn into a monstrous amount of mash.

When Martin arrived he joined Gill in prepping peppers and noodles for an Asian inspired mango, pepper and noodle salad. Harrison (who we are trying to persuade to join GoodGym) was given a brief to create a meat free filling for the shepherd's pie.

The cooking was cool, calm and collected and the whole team. worked well. Our menu was ready on time, plated elegantly and served up swiftly by the hosts. We even had time to do the bulk of the washing up before hot footing it to our next task at the temple.

4 Goodgymers helped the Sri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara to host another cooking class with the Friends of the temple. The team helped prep, cook and tidy up. The Aunties were cooking Muttor Paneer, with rice and chapatis. Adrian has become the Chapati king, its like he's been making them for years and Mayra was butter girl for the evening, covering the lovely flatbreads in a cheeky bit of buttery sweetness. Kamal gave the eating area a good clean down before everyone sat down to sample the delicious food made. The temple were really appreciative of all the teams help. Well done guys

Earlier today I returned the Warden Hill Community garden to sow some seeds and check on the onions the team planted there a couple of weeks ago. After putting up the Goodgym flag, I measured out the area i'd be working on and set about preparing the soil. I then marked out some little trenches and sprinkled, Coriander and Spinach seeds and loosely covered them over with soil. I then grabbed a watering can and watered all the areas we've planted recently and tidied up. The onions are coming through well, so we'll be looking forward to cooking them with the Aunties at the temple in the future.

4 of our regular FoodCycle Goodgymers put their well honed veg peeling skills to the test this afternoon as we had been asked to prepare the vegetables for the St George's Day charity meal for pensioners tomorrow. We started peeling and chopping the ingredients for the vegetable soup, and before long there were enough carrots, swede and leaks prepared for two huge vats. Vera, who had requested our help was really pleased with the speed with which we worked so next put us to the task of peeling enough potatoes for 70 - 80 people to have 4 roasties each. Just when we thought we'd done enough she announced she also needed enough potatoes to make enough mash for the same number of people. We had finished one sack of potatoes, but as if by magic, Vera produced another sack, and we carried on peeling. We soon lost count of how many we had done.

Then it was onto peeling even more carrots and cutting them into coins to accompany the main course. Vera had allowed three hours for us to complete the mammoth amount of prep but she hadn't factored in just how efficient a GoodGym team can be and we were finished in record time, including enough time for Gill to wash up, Ruth to sweep the floor, and Myra to liquidise the soup.

Thanks Team, Vera was really appreciative of our help and we are all invited to go back to the Community Centre tomorrow if we would like to have dinner with the folk. And I promise you won't have to peel another spud!