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berry crumble, charity, community events, cooking group, corn bread, dorset apple sponge cake, film nights, healthy eating cooking group, homemade guacamole, lentil, lentil ragu, mushroom and quinoa ragu, north london cares, Oldfield Eats, primrose hill, sheltered housing, social isolation, soda bread, sweet potato Moroccan stew, tomato coconut curry, Vegetarian recipes, veggie bean burgers, veggie bean chili, volunteering
It’s been a while since I posted a recipe (November eek!) so I thought it was time to get back in the kitchen and start thinking about what could make a tasty meal again!
This recipe was inspired by a group I’ve been involved with since October, which is known as Oldfield Eats and is a project run by North London Cares, a wonderful charity that aims to tackle isolation and loneliness in over 65’s who live in Camden and Islington. I joined North London Cares as a volunteer back in December 2015 and have loved being involved in a variety of the different projects they run from film nights, pamper afternoons and now a cooking group.
I had been wanting to set up a food pop up group for some time and wasn’t sure what my plans were last year with living situation so kept putting it off however I saw a post on the North London Cares website about being an organiser and running one of the groups and thought that sounded like a lot of fun! My initial idea that I pitched was to do a sort of pot luck event where volunteers and members of the community each cook a small dish and then bring it to share with each other however it just so happened that North London Cares were thinking about running a healthy eating cooking group once a month at Oldfield Estate, sheltered housing accommodation just next to Primrose Hill, and were looking for someone to help run that. I loved the idea so it was an easy decision to get involved with the project and since we started it has been so much fun. Continue reading