WILD GOOSE COOKERY

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COOKERY COURSE

@ WILD GOOSE

FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE

INTRODUCTION

THE WILD GOOSE in BRISTOL has recently started a Cookery course for homeless people and those who attend for breakfast or lunch, even if they are not homeless.

What a brilliant Idea I thought so I went along

I didn't think I needed a lesson in cooking as I have been a very keen enthusiast of using the kitchen both for many generations as well as for many decades just myself.

1. My mum was never out of the kitchen.

On Fridays we would go to the local market and do a main shop for her weekend cookery art.

AT weekends she would be up at 5, 6 o'clock to start some major preparations for her cooking and baking which then would start at 8 . By 12 pm she would have everything ready - which I did think was incredible.

She would cook a soup - maybe a chicken stock soup using up a full chicken and a full pan of different vegetables adding some small cut pasta shapes at the end .

For seconds we would often have Gulash, porkolt in Hungarian which would be a few hours of slow frying some meat - such as lamb, pork or chicken - for hours in a paprika sauce then adding some root vegetables, which would dissolve and become pulp for the spicy sauce accompanying the slow fried meat.

This would be served with rice or pasta, boiled potatoes, chips, crocket potatoes, roast spuds or a variety of different accompaniments.

She would vary the rice with rice with peas, or fried rice and similar

Dessert would be a main item and usually last til the following week . She would bake a whole tray of something sweet for just the the four of us.

My grandmother was even more of a kitchen enthusiast. She could do flame grills and all sorts

She would plan her cooking throughout the week and cook all weekend.

Whilst my mum did her main meal for Saturday, my grandma planned the main meal for Sunday and the entire Saturday would be spent on preparing for Sunday lunch. At my grandma's there were always at least 8 to 12 of us she had to cook for so it was a bigger task in general as well as her being the keener chef. She was an amazing cake maker too. There is nothing she couldn't do . Whatever we requested she did for us form icing

to lollies

from muffins

to cheesecakes

everything you have ever bought form a supermarket she had baked during her life

And we always had something fun to find on the table too

I AM A VEGAN

I love food. I love food and all to do with food (ethical sourcing, preparation, invitations ) more than my ancients did , for that is what being vegan is about.

Being a vegan takes enjoyment of food to another dimension.

as a vegan you must grow your own microgreens

and do sprout your own seeds

as you must have fresh and raw foods every day and it is best those are of organic origin.

Both these activities are extremely enjoyable to a vegan and appear very tedious to an onlooker.

So never in my life I imagined I would NEED to attend a cookery course, but the Wild Goose is running one just now and IT's not too late to join

...

AND I decide to join

COOKERY COURSE @ THE WILD GOOSE: WEEK ONE

SO...

LEE

and ANDY

from the Wild Goose

drop in Centre for the homeless and vulnerable had decided to put on a cookery course for anybody who is interested and actually started it about in August 2024

The first week Andy welcomed us with iced doughnuts and coffee

Only four of us turned up, but that was enough for a photo shoot , which then went out out on Social Media as well as for the Black hole of Calcutta to appear after no more than about two minutes into the course ...

Homeless people in Bristol create this hole and give you no more than TWO chances

of grasping homeless people are very vulnerable indeed

and are entitled to all privileges vulnerable people are entitled to including those privileges children are entitled to - these range from broad smiles to having their birthdays remembered and more.

Should you fail to either grasp homeless people are vulnerable

...or to illustrate you know what that means you simply and easily disappear into this great big black hole on your vulnerable care path

from which you only surface again if you now truly truly care

I think putting on a cookery course specifically for us was such good news we could actually bring to the surface and deal with at least one mysterious disappearance of such from the past and correct what could be put right.

Others thought Lee and Andy were disappearing in the Bermuda triangle